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I began this blog by citing how Positivity is helping me at the present time and now I would like to explain why I believe and sincerely hope that it is helping my immune system be as strong as it can be in the light of the fact that chemo does temporarily compromise the immune system.

The physiology of positivity is interesting.  I quote from…[Read more]

Yes, Athelstone I read all about him on Wikipedia and he was a very interesting and talented, intelligent man.  Also related to the Henry James’s.

Hope your day and writing going well.  Jill 😊

William James seems like an interesting man. He’s an example of something less common these days, a polymath. He studied widely across medicine and philosophy, developing expertise in both fields so that he taught physiology, psychology and philosophy (at different times) at Harvard, whilest finding time for an apprenticeship as a painter, and…[Read more]

Looked up William James and found he was an American Philosopher and Psychologist.

Happened upon a little book of quotes on my heaving bookshelf 😊

William James (? Do not know of him) considers that “There is but one cause of human failure and that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.”

Eileen Caddy in The Dawn of Change says “A soul without a high aim is like a ship withouna rudder.”

This I think mirrors one of Athelston…[Read more]

THE  VESTAL VIRGIN

Background History 

(Some data courtesy of Wikipedia)

This is the story of Lucia and her parents who lived in Ancient Rome.  Lucia was prepubescent and had been chosen to be enrolled in The  Virgin Goddess Vespa’s College of Six Priestesses.

This is the story of a young girl chosen to help protect Rome’s Sacred Hearth…[Read more]

I won’t lie, I logged in last night to find out what the prompt for this month’s comp was going to be, little expecting – in the face of the other entries – that I would be setting it 😂

So thanks, Ath, for the comp and for that WTH!? moment when I got home from work 😃 and thanks to everyone else for inspiring me to try in the first place. I’l…[Read more]

Thanks, Ath, for  this months  competition  theme, what a great crop of entries it  garnered.

Congratulations ,everyone, for the interesting and well crafted   reads and well done Sea for being the one taking the  lead into  the July   challenge.

Well, that’s an unexpected turn of events!

Thank you, Athelstone for setting the thought provoking theme and now for your considered and kind comments in judgement.  I enjoyed each of my fellow writers’ entries and it is a good feeling to be amongst such talented people once more.

Last but not least (sorry!) I extend huge congratulations to the worthy winner, Seagreen.

That’s such a fabulous story, Seagreen.

I enjoyed everyone else’s entries too. Thank you Ath for the prompt and all your comments.

Oh, hooray, and congratulations @ Seagreen, but similarly to all for a varied and thought-provoking selection of ‘last times’. Thank you too Ath  for the prompt – a subject which I ponder increasingly  frequently.

Bumper crop springs to mind, but the cliché is wrong because these stories didn’t just spring up, they were all lovingly made by hand.

Janette’s story reminds us of the way that roles are exchanged as age demands. More than this, it reminds us that life is full of last moments each important and deserving of attention and memory. There is a wist…[Read more]

Any more takers? Last chance today. That could be the subject.

Moving On

The elderly man picked up a landline receiver. On his desk lay an open, glossy page of Country Life. The man underlined a phone number and dialled.

“Hello, my name’s John Tucker,” he said. “I’d like to sell my house. Could you send a valuer?”

He gave his address. A distant phone voice burbled.

“Two valuers?” said John. “This aft…[Read more]