Having spent a couple of weeks on holiday with my friend and her kids, it is still fresh in my consciousness about how children are, i.e. usually spontaneous! Everything is lived in the moment and how they feel is expressed readily and usually without any filters, as any worn out parent will tell you!  Becoming adult seems like a long, boring process of removing ourselves from our spontaneous feelings. So many of us walk around not really knowing what the truth is for us emotionally.

Anne Geddes cabbages

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I am on holiday with my good friend from Oz who is currently based in Paris. We are in Provence, France near a little town called Cavaillon.

Provence map

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The Secret Garden

Yesterday I happened by accident to watch on TV the wonderful 1993 movie ‘The Secret Garden’ with Maggie Smith. I was delighted because, although a long time ago, this had been my favorite book as a child. Although the movie has slightly differed in a few ways from the book ,it was delightful to watch. I had always thought it was just a great book for children because it spoke about a beautiful, hidden, secret garden to which the children in the story could escape & find solace. Don’t we all look for that now in our crazy, busy lives?

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