‘Canto fermo’ is the term for an existing melody used as the basis for a new composition. The prose and poetry of mystics like John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Edith Stein – all informed by the Gospel – is my ‘melody’. The ‘new composition’ is this blog and my indie novel ‘The Age for Love’. To buy my book go to amazon.com or smashwords.com and download to your kindle, iPad, phone or any reading device.
Sunday, 20 March 2016
GRANDMERE THE WICKED WITCH
On Friday, for the second time, I took a pack of four frozen choccy treats, along with a roast chicken, to my daughter's place. Cat, as she's universally known, and her husband Tiki have a vineyard at Haumoana in Hawke's Bay, and as harvest time approaches the plot thickens and the nerves thin.
(Actually, when I found she wasn't home and couldn't force entry, I had to deliver them to the wild game salami cottage industry next door.)
Tonight, Cat reports, when the Tiptop trumpets were handed out there was an unusual and prolonged silence. It was broken by six year-old Theo(-dorable).
'Is Grandmere really a wicked witch,' he asked, 'who's fattening us up so she can eat us?'
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