Yearly Archives: 2016

The young girl wiggles in the motionless swing. She calls out impatiently, “Push me mummy, push me”. Her mum is weary and pleads with her daughter, “Surely you can swing yourself. I know you can do it!” The girl in the swing starts to whinge and cries out, “No, no, I […]

Little by little – you can do it.

22 Feb, 2016 in 2016 feb tagged little by little; by Esther Murray

Thankful for little steps… Last month we looked at the topic of ‘reinvention’ but as I looked up the word on my computer thesaurus, there were no other synonyms for this word. I then looked up the word ‘invention’ and it presented me with words like creation and discovery. I believe there […]

Little Next Steps

20 Feb, 2016 in 2016 feb by Penny

In my parents, I find many an example. One of them is this beautiful truth: With the little they had, they gave 25 years to serving people on a little island in the middle of the Arabian Sea. Lives were bettered, love was lifted above all else. Giving a little […]

The little: butter on dry toast

19 Feb, 2016 in 2016 feb by Riyanka Panditha

We have a money-box where we collect coins. All the twenty, fifty, ten and even five cent pieces go in this box. The girls love gathering them up and pushing them through the slot. It is just for the little money. The money that just becomes a nuisance; filling up […]

the little in love

14 Feb, 2016 in 2016 feb by Jodie McCarthy

One of the great paradoxes of life is that the little things are often the big things. Anyone who has received a little blue box wrapped in blue ribbon with Tiffany & Co. on the outside will know what I mean. We too often feel the need to achieve big […]

Our Common Hours

13 Feb, 2016 in 2016 feb tagged #commonhours / #elainefraserauthor / #fromlittlethingsbigthingsgrow / #littlethings / #moments / #paradox / kinwomen by Elaine Fraser

Just last year our extended family bought a farm. It is a simple lot of acreage, found right in the middle of state forrest. The space and the thinking time it has bought into our family calendar is profound. It’s no more than a big barn like shed but it […]

The splinters that just keep on aching

6 Feb, 2016 in 2016 feb by Amanda