Snowy refections toward Winter

Last week Winter came early as temperatures plunged to minus four, snow came although for us it was around two and half to just over three centimetres unlike our neighbours higher up who had more of it and in some spots such as around Ilam in the Staffordshire Moorlands school was closed as the village was cut off.

Those kinds of experiences I remember quite well from the days of walking through the snow at school, armed with change for the callboxes in case I needed to summon help and a few hours later writing down after tea all about it.
 

When I say writing down all about I don't mean just a cold factual this is what happened today list with linking words statement, I mean writing about how I felt about about it, what thoughts were going through my mind.

 

That wasn't easy given the whole idea of reflection is something that never was talked about and it was rare for people to ask you even what you felt about anything, so like you had feelings but often great difficult in knowing where to start conveying them.

But I did seem to find I could find a way of doing it "on paper" if perhaps I might well be more expressive if we could go off somewhere quiet with a few dolls and show more through play how I was feeling.
 

That's why in a way being along this more child-like pathway really has over the years been better for me cos at least it helps in getting that whole side better so you do feel okay about showing more about your emotions and knowing just how and what you feel about things.

Sometimes people conflict what they may think about and idea or thing a person did which you may feel is wrong with how as a person, when you know and have been with them heaps they really are even if perhaps you don't agree with something or other they are doing.

I met and have spent time with some very famous people for hours on end, sometimes with their family too outside of politics, public roles and so on so it kind of irritates me to hear people saying "X was Evil" for some policy that you may of disagreed with, perhaps even with good reason that cannot be equated to that of an evil act, when you know they were just not like it cos You had been with them just talking, enjoying a meal, even perish the thought, playing with them.

You also know how kind they were to you personally, even offering you help at garden parties and children's parties on landed estates, playing games, rowing along pools and lakes.

Sometimes I feel that funny adult trend of judging people by things like politics really makes little sense as you really don't know anything about the person themselves.

It won't be long before the big countdown to Christmas begins so the Advent calender is ready to go up in a week or so.