2003

13 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS
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awaiting a moon
rounding still to its fullness -
joy in dawn bird songs
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
Sunday Lime 14
Sunday Savvy 14
3rd Sunday Advent 2015

Third Sunday of Advent: we light the rose (pink)candle
Watchword is JOY

Sunday Smiles

[image from google dot com]

Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #14 in the series The Sunday Standard (where a 5-7-5 haiku) is featured How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



I am blog hopping today at
Recuerda Mi Corazon
12 Days of Mary Love; day 11


AND

Poetry Pantry #332


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2002

15 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS
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[water colour sketch]


preparation days
to Christmas
door knobs to polish
noses to shine
© gillena cox 2016


Blog hopping today at



Week 40 Year 6

AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon
12 Days of Mary; day 9



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2001

16 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS
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lateness of bird songs -
each day already prescribed
come sunshine or rain
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
Dec 8th 2009
Dec 8th 2010
12 days of Mary 2014


Blog hopping today at
Recuerda Mi Corazon
12 Days of Mary; day 8


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Today Rebecca (hostess at 12 Days of Mother Love) shares with us a link to
Poems of Saint Francis of Assisi

2000

17 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS
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Dear Mary, as the earth shook last evening, holding my breath in a tense grasp of memory erasure, all i could fathom from this soul stirring danse macabre, was the name of your son

trembling earth -
reports in the news say
a six point two
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
12 days of Mary 2015
earthquake 2014
12 days of Mary 2013


Blog hopping today at
Recuerda Mi Corazon
12 Days of Mary; day 7

1999

18 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS
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days to Christmas -
sorrel in bottle and jars
sweetening gift lists
© gillena cox 2016

My Sorrel Drink Recipe

Revisit
deseeding
cheers
chaffs


Blog hopping today at
Recuerda Mi Corazon
12 Days of Mary; day 6


AND


A SHINY RED

1998

20 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS
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dust of sandalled feet
to settle in a manger -
way of Bethlehem
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
Sunday Lime 13
Sunday Savvy 13
2nd Sunday Advent 2015

Second Sunday of Advent: deepening hope continues, as we light the second purple candle The Bethlehem or candle of preparation watchword is BETHLEHEM

Sunday Smiles

[image from google dot com]

Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #13 in the series The Sunday Standard (where a 5-7-5 haiku) is featured How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



I am blog hopping today at
Recuerda Mi Corazon
12 Days of Mary Love


AND

Poetry Pantry #331


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1997

22 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS

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[another in my newsprint series 'Parang Gifts 'using gouache watercolour paints]

the parang singer -
remembering Daisy who
has left us her songs
© gillena cox 2016




Blog hopping today at
Week39 Year 6

AND


Carpe Diem
##1084 Serenade (Schubert)

1996

23 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS


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Blog hopping today at
Thursday's Challenge
"RARE (week 1 of 2)" (Infrequently Seen, Scarce, Unusual, Uncommon, Exceptional,...)



priceless and worthy
the heritage
of a nation stored
© gillena cox 2016


AND



Carpe Diem
#1082 Raindrops (Chopin)

night rain -
the interlude between
November/December
© gillena cox 2016


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1995

Advent comes again
to lit candles; symbols of
Hope, Love, Joy and Peace.
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
Sunday Lime 12
Sunday Savvy 12
1st Sunday Advent 2015

The Advent wreath, or Advent crown, is a Christian tradition that symbolizes the passage of the four weeks of Advent in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic church. Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Our watchword is HOPE

Sunday Smiles


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #12 in the series The Sunday Standard How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below





Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #330


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[video choice today]

1994

puffy white clouds
sit on the mountain top
imagine
the songs of kiskadee
rising to serenade them
© gillena cox 2016



Blog hopping today at

Carpe Diem
Tanka Splendor #26 meditation


[video of choice]

1993

[another in my newsprint series 'Rainy Morning'using gouache watercolour paints]

dried cranberries
in a bowl of cereal -
the song of raindrops
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
holding
raindrops
sky


[firstsketch was done in charcoal]



Blog hopping today at
Week 38 Year 6

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[video choice today]

1992

[image from google dot com]


called to sonship all -
The Cross of Calvary borne
redemption price paid
© gillena cox 2016

blog hopping today at

Midweek Motif ~
Hyperbole (Stretch the Truth)

1991

On returning home from my morning walks, i sometimes stop to buy coconutwater from the way side seller. He sell the coconuts from his van. You grab your straw, you tell him if you want just the water nut or the nut with a little jelly. He cuts the top off and your coconut is ready to drink. Cheers!!!

pause for refreshment -
precise coconut cuts from
the way side seller
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
coconuts water 2015

Blog hopping today at

Monday Mellow Yellows
ancient Chinese umbrella model...

1990

feast of Christ the King -
blossoming Crown of Thorns spike
a garden retreat
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
Christ The King 2015
Sunday Savvy 11
Sunday Lime 11

The feast of Christ The King marks the end of the liturgical year for catholics

Sunday Smiles


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Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #329

1989

my guardian angel
to a mein of appearance -
play of silver light
© gillena cox 2016


Blog hopping today at
Midweek Motif ~ Invisibility

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[video choice today]

1988

a large moon tonight
new beginnings curve within
promises and hope
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
super moon
Sunday Lime 10
Sunday Savvy 10

a super moon looms on the horizon, the penultimate perigree moon for 2016. Last super moon for this year will be Dec 14th

Sunday Smiles


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #10 in the series The Sunday Standard How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below




Blog hopping at

Poetry Pantry #328

1987

[Weight As A Feather -gouache watercolour paints on old news print]

a feather drops
in absence of wind -
coo of pigeons
© gillena cox 2016



[inspiration and painting crop]



Blog hopping today at

Week 36 Year 6

AND

Prompt Nights
– Brevity’s the flower that contends not with bunch, rather it blooms – [35]


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[video choice today