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Hello and Happy Wednesday to you.

Thank you for entering the book giveaway from my last post, for a copy of Helen Lehndorf's new book Write to the Centre. I drew a winner randomly and that was number 10… Sally! Congratulations Sally, I will email you shortly.

I found it really interesting to read the comments about whether or not you keep a journal, and why.

Some people don't, for fear of it being found, while others are keen documenters of their own lives. Quite a few comments mentioned feeling curious about the journaling process and how it might help us process and remember different stages of our lives.

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Do you know the musician Sam Amidon? On his album All is Well, he features a selection of mostly Appalachian folk songs and adapts them. My favourite is this one: Saro. The music video is really beautiful too, and uses vintage film footage.

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It's been mostly a grey and busy week here so far, but I bought a red cyclamen plant for the kitchen table and that has cheered things up a lot. Hope you are well.

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8 responses to “still life with cyclamen”

  1. sally Avatar
    sally

    Yippppppppeeeeeeee! Thank you !!

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  2. Meg Avatar

    The colour of the cyclamen is gorgeous, Melissa. I think I might look for one too:) Meg

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  3. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    Thanks for the chance to enter your giveaway Melissa – congrats to Sally for her win. That cyclamen is such a happy splash of colour in the midst of winter 🙂

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  4. Lucy Avatar

    That cyclamen is so pretty – I thought I’d killed mine by leaving it outside last year in terrible weather, but it’s gradually showing new signs of life. Such resilience!
    I really enjoyed the post about Helen’s book and thought a lot about journals of my teenage past (now destroyed!) I would quite like to do it again… it would be nice to have a physical ‘hold in your hand’ record of something (and a place to stick all those ticket stubs/leaves/random bits of ephemera.

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  5. Lucy Avatar

    Also, HURRAH! This is the first time I’ve left a comment that’s ‘stuck’ for ages and ages (I’ve been silently lurking a lot)

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  6. tinyhappy Avatar

    hi lucy! thanks for leaving a comment 🙂 and sorry if the blog has been playing up when youve tried to other times… i often look out over the hill and wonder how you and the whanau are doing.
    XX melissa

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  7. tinyhappy Avatar

    thanks lucy – yes cyclamens are the best, although honestly, i expect mine to die quite soon. i have no talent for keeping indoor plants alive. our windy corner of wellington is certainly a place to test botanical resilience!
    m.

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  8. tinyhappy Avatar

    thank you meg – hope you can find one! they seem to be sold everywhere in wellington at the moment.
    🙂

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