White Doves
Dear Reader,
White doves are symbolic of new beginnings, peace, fidelity, love, luck and prosperity. Their release is a tradition that has been making ceremonies, rituals and celebrations more powerful and meaningful for thousands of years. White doves are extremely docile creatures that are often seen as bringers of celestial freedom moving souls of departed loved ones to their final resting place.
Some doves will mate for life while others will only pair up for the season. In some cases if their pair passes away it is believed that these doves are aware of their loss and mourn the death of the pair.
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Thinking about docile creatures I certainly wasn't one of those this week. I had acquired a large and very painful ulcer in my mouth and it was making me very miserable and, I have to admit, bad tempered. We don't generally talk much about pain to one another, do we? But pain is so difficult to bear peacefully and it can change a personality from quiet and calm to angry and inconsolable. I was one of those.
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From D.H.Lawrence, 1918, April 18th in Berkshire
'Yesterday there was deep snow, though the trees are in bloom. Plum trees and cherry trees full of blossom look so queer in a snow landscape, their lovely foamy fullness goes a sort of pinky drab, and the snow looks fiendish in its cold incandescence. I hated it violently.'
From Samuel Pepys, 1664, April 22nd in Kent
'I was called up this morning before four o'clock. It was full light to dress myself: and so by water against tide, it being a little cool, to Greenwich; and thence, only that it was somewhat foggy till the sun got to some height, walked with great pleasure to Woolwich, in my way staying several times to listen to the nightingale.'
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Katie's Angels
At dawn, driving eastwards,
mist still covering the fields,
trees ribboned in cobwebs,
sky blue and white,
she saw a rabbit, a pigeon,
and two hen pheasants,
but no cherubs, no bright light.
Much later, lost, tired
rounding a corner she saw
gathered in the road
twenty white, white doves.
They flew up,
a breath of sunshine tipping their wings.
Ecstatic, she recognised the sign;
recognised her angels.
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If you enjoyed my memoir 'Half a Pair of People' you might enjoy my novel:
VICTORIA SCOTT'S DILEMMA
It is now out on Amazon under my name: Patricia Huth, in the book section. Although I say this myself it is a charming love story that also makes one laugh.
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With very best wishes, Patricia
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