New Year

Happy New Year! I most certainly hope this year is better than the last. I plan on living a healthy lifestyle, remaining well and happy. I am looking forward to a productive 2015 with lots of writing, reading and fun.

I am thoroughly enjoying Caleb's Crossing with a back story of racial misunderstandings, acceptance of tragedy, the role of women in the 1660's and the deep desire for education. Geraldine Brooks seems to have an understanding of language and minute detail that escapes many other writers. Her descriptions of the mundane along with the horrific roll through the plot rising up at unexpected times.

My kindle is running red hot with Touching the World
as I follow Cathy and Bernard's story of riding a motorcycle around the world. Having reached Peru and coming to the realisation their adventure is almost at an end I am very keen to finish this book. The knowledge gleaned from Google that Cathy died just a few years after returning from this adventure made me very sad as I had intended to contact her. Vision impairment and blindness give many a connection. We undertake adventures which others would never contemplate and seek out ways to experience the world differently.

Paddington Bear is a wonderful movie! Cherie and I laughed our way through it enjoying the antics of Paddington as much as the little girl at the front who imitated the bear whenever she could. Jay was not impressed, he slept in the cool and never moved, probably a testament to wonderful air conditioning.