Booked!

good afternoon...

it is full on winter weather here...dull grey skies,

bared branches and shut up windows

but...

great weather for my latest passion...reading!

when my computer died

i had some time to spare

&

found myself looking at my bookshelf

at all those books i'd collected over the last couple of years

but had never got around to properly reading.

i set myself a mission...

to read all of them from cover to cover

then to decide whether they were worth keeping to read again one day

or whether they would be relegated to the bin, the thrift shop

or passed on to friends to enrich their lives as well.

i have just finished reading this one...yesterday.

it is a picture of the miracles taking place in mozambique,

so interesting it only took a few days to read.

the book on the bottom has taken me a couple of months to ingest..

chapter by chapter

filling me up with its message until i have to lay it down for the day

and find a lighter read to go on with

while i digest what it is saying to me.

i have been to china a few times,

africa too...

revelled in the lives of people and places,

events and fantasy.

i love every story

&

have learned from every book...

even the ones i won't go back to ever again!

i don't ever want to be too much in a hurry again

or have a life to busy

to not have enough time

to take in at least a little of a story each day...

i will take flight to a distant shore, adventuring...

and enjoying the journey thoroughly

from the comfort of my favourite cushioned chair,

my bed or a quiet corner of a cafe.

it amazes me

how those books sat on my shelf patiently

waiting for me to discover their messages...

stories that have changed my life

powerfully...

silently!

with much love

naturally Carol xox