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Portrait of a Man with a Dog by Bartolomeo Passerotti (1585)
Some of the values and sentiments of our ‘best friend’: Gratitude, Contentment, Loyalty, Companionship, Friendship, Forgiveness, Love, Compassion, Kindness, and enjoying the simple pleasures of life.
Dogs not only have these values and sentiments, but they show them and live them to the full. Just imagine what a life and what a world we would have had if we were a bit more like our dogs!
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A Journey to Healing: The inspiring story of a man who healed lives and bettered the world
'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'
He was called Elzéard Bouffier, a shepherd in Provence…
Then, years later, Jean Giono, so brilliantly, puts the shepherd’s story into words in an inspiring book: The Man Who Planted Trees
Plant a Tree: Healing ourselves and bettering our world
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‘When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.’- Jean Giono
‘Jean Giono, the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France’s greatest writers. His prodigious literary output included stories, essays, poetry, plays, film scripts, translations and over thirty novels, many of which have been translated into English. Giono was a pacifist, and was twice imprisoned in France at the outset and conclusion of World War II. He remained tied to Provence and Manosque, the little city where he was born in 1895 and, in 1970, died. Giono was awarded the Prix Bretano, the Prix de Monaco (for the most outstanding collected work by a French writer), the Légion d’Honneur, and he was a member of the Académie Goncourt.’
‘In planting a tree, we plant a friend who will grow into a silent protector.’
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‘Love is the bridge between you and everything.’- Rumi
“Our own life has to be our message”- Thich Nhat Hanh
With thanks and gratitude to Rosemary Grossman for the artwork and calligraphy
Our Wedding Day
Saturday 27 July 1974
Ceremony at St Osburg's Catholic Church, Coventry
Reception at the Blackdown, Royal Leamington Spa
Our Golden Wedding Anniversary
Saturday 27 July 2024
- Celebrating our Golden Wedding Anniversary
- The tragedy of the modern-day loneliness in the era of virtual connection
- A Must-read Book: A Book that resonates with me in my search for belonging
- A moment that changed me: The day I discovered that indeed small is beautiful
- A moment that changed me: The day I saw the ruins of Coventry Cathedral