Over at RevGalBlogPals this week Songbird writes:There's a new baby on my street, a double PK whose Mom and Dad are Methodist pastors and church planters. I'm hoping to go over and meet her today. I love new babies, the way they smell and their sweet little fingers and toes. Little K has me thinking about all the new things that please us with their shiny freshness.
Please share with us five things you like *especially* when they are new.
- Well yes I do have to agree with Songbird about babies. Within the family I like the genealogical continuity as great-nephews and nieces arrive.
- Cakes. Nothing like a cake fresh out of the oven in all its newness. Doesn't seem to last that long in our household before it's time for another new one.
- Sheets. Not so much new, as newly laundered. Tonight I will snuggle into those fesh sheets and enjoy! The first shower with a newly laundered towel is also a smaill pleasure greatly enjoyed.
- Scriptures. Again not so much new as newly discovered. I'm in a group collectively internalising the Gospel of Mark for a performance in Advent. I find that my four paragraphs come naturally to mind as I sit on the train in the mornings. Living with scriptures in this way unveils new ironies and perspectives I enjoy greatly.
- Places. Always something interesting to learn about geography or history when in a locality for the first time. Flying in to Wagga Wagga last weekend I was struck, for example, by the tortuous course of the Murrumbidgee river. And once there our hotel was right on the riverbank so I got to walk along it and see markers from the 1974 flood, see replanting work undertaken as part of employment projects for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages enjoying the recreational opportunities for swimming, kayaking and fishing.
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There is nothing I like more than some new sheets of white paper ( a bottle of black ink and my trusty fountain pen) and a spare hour or two to fill them. Though those new bed sheets also appeal.
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