IndieAthon is done for another year. I got further through that rather spontaneous TBR pile than I expected, reading:

• Common Murder (Val McDermid)
• An Honourable Estate: being memoirs by Clorinda Cathcart (L. A. Hall)
• The 12.30 fromCroydon (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• Family Roundabout (Richmal Crompton)

I also read, but have still to write up:

• Love/War (Ebba Witt-Brattström, translated by Kate Lambert)
• Go The Way Your Blood Beats: on truth, bisexuality and desire (Michael Amherst)
• Smash All The Windows (Jane Davis)

That makes a book for each day of the readathon week, which isn’t bad going.

I will note that those boots let me down, and the water in, during a rainy but pleasant short break in Lille. I’ll have to save them for dry days in future.

And finally, the UK Amazon store has the paperback edition of A Spoke In The Wheel marked down by 40% at present. I’ve…

We come to
this place

Raw with
pain, riddled with anxiety

We come to
this place

Hoping and
praying

We come to
this place

Lonely and
alone

We come to
this place

Full of
sickness and loathing

We come to
this place

Ill and
forlorn

We come to
this place

In
desperation, in fear

We come to
this place

So far from
our homes

We come to
this place

What shall
it cost us?

The answer
never ours to know.

We come to
this place

Searching
for wholeness

We come to
this place

Knowing we might not leave

We come to
this place

Remember our
faces, our stories

We come to
this place

We come

Let peace
fill us now

Compassion, be our touch-stone

We come to
this place

Let healing
begin

Image: Alarie Tano

There’s a knight at night upon a bridge

Below sleeps the dreaded dragon.

The knight is on a mission

Being valiant is his goal

To rescue some maiden

To set the world aright.

The dragon will prove his nemesis

It will thwart his every move

Nothing will come easy

It’s the path he has chosen.

As it’s the plight of the dragon

To be life’s obstacle

Growling and roaring;

Showing him the error of his ways.

In the end, the dragon loses,

At least it seems the way of it.

The knight is victorious

He has stories told about him

And becomes the source of legend.

Around him, he is cheered

And while the adulation happens

The dragon goes back to sleeping

His role in this complete.

Written for: https://helenevaillant.com/2019/03/12/what-do-you-see-march-12-2019/

We live in a world where being arrogant is praised, people don’t know how to be humble. Humble people are seen as weak, not goal oriented. How important is humility?On a scale from 0 to 10, I would personally say 11. Being humble is one of the important quality to develop as well. Being humble open your heart for compassion, being humble open your mind to learn more and acquire more knowledge. Be humble

Things you have to understand about humility

Humble people are easily teachable, although they might have all the money in the world they are always ready to learn new things and improve on what they know. Humility precedes glory, there is no glory without humility. You know nothing about amazing grace and unfailing love from God if you think everything you have you deserve it. You are not more human than anyone else just because of…

How has your week been? What have you been reading?

It’s so late on Sunday night, I have to be up at 5:45 tomorrow, and I was meant to be getting an early night. It’s safe to say, this rundown hasn’t gone well. So, hopefully you can forgive me for this rushed introduction. Let’s do this so I can go to bed where I belong.

Welcome to the 151st round up of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!

Thank you for a truly amazing set of Sunrise posts this week! With each new dawn, there were more gorgeous photos and great posts to enjoy. The variety of approaches showed off your creative touch, and I really enjoyed reading each and every one of them!

A big thanks for your effort and I hope you enjoy each other’s posts!

Here’s a sunrise from a number of years ago…

As my wife and I were in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, I decided to take the opportunity to get some early morning photography of the battlefields, before tourists would descend upon the locale. The power of these locations around dawn is palpable and left a deep impression on me.

The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:

1. We start with another wonderul…