http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/ Monument - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:23:25 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios marnanel personal http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/54361/470 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/203193.html Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:23:25 GMT http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/203193.html <center><img src="http://i.imgur.com/xjwuzl.jpg"><br /><br /><i>Every stone a story.</i></img></center><br /><br />This is my rosary: I carry it with me everywhere I go. It has <a href="http://tb.becket.net/xian-rosary.html">the conventional design</a> of five decades, but it's made of knotted string.<br /><br />I don't know whether I'm doing it right, but whenever I pray the rosary I feel myself in Mary's shoes. In the joyful mysteries, I hear the sound of feathered wings at the Annunciation; I feel her joy in seeing and hugging Elizabeth; I imagine her alarm and the pains of childbirth; her happiness at the naming of her son; her worry twelve years later at finding him missing, and her relief in finding him and her wonder at finding where he was.<br /><br />The other night I dreamed that I asked Kirsten if I was praying the rosary correctly, and she pointed out a couple of mistakes. In the dream, Mary appeared to us and said, "She's right, you know."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=marnanel&ditemid=203193" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/203193.html folk:ghoti church public 0 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/119555.html Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:48:37 GMT http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/119555.html <center><img src="http://marnanel.org/pics/lj/lsm"></img></center><br /><br />This is the churchyard of <a href="http://www.lsm.org.uk/">Little St Mary's</a>, so called because there's another church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, called Great St Mary's. There was a tabby cat standing beside this tombstone, but he ran away when I took my camera out. LSM is a very friendly high church which has mass every day, but I didn't drop in today because it's during work hours on Wednesdays.<br /><br />Last night I went to see <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~kjwatson/">ghoti</a>, <a href="http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/">Jon</a>, Bene't and Judith (with Ian and Clare also making welcome appearances) at Relativity. It was so good to see them all again! We had some rather delicious stir-fry, and summer pudding, which isn't something I've had for a very long time. After dinner I played my first game of <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/prod/roborally">RoboRally</a>, which Bene't won.<br /><br /><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Xzibit">xzibit</a> is progressing rather excitingly, and yesterday I played minesweeper (<a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/doc/mines.html#mines">Simon's version</a>) on an X display other than the one it was actually connected to. Next I have to learn a great deal more than I know already about <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/MPX">MPX</a>.<br /><br />Tonight is the only night of the week when I'm not due to go and see someone. An old friend of mine has turned up living in one of the villages, and I might go out there to see them, but I might also just have a spare peaceful evening when I'm not going anywhere&mdash; especially because the second draft of one of my chapters is due tomorrow.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=marnanel&ditemid=119555" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/119555.html cambridge folk:ghoti folk:jon church folk:benet day folk:judith pgo work:collabora public 1