2020 - Life Has Never Been Normal
"We are mistaken when we compare war [calamities] with “normal life.” Life has never been normal.”
Adriana and I want to wish you and your family
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2021
Images that helped us to get through the pandemic at Narnia - - -
.... so far
Where it´s always spring and always Christmas
"... only Supernaturalists really see Nature. You must go a little way away from her, and then turn round, and look back. Then at last the true landscape will become visible. ...
You must have tasted, however briefly, the pure water from beyond the world before you can be distinctly conscious of the hot, salty tang of Nature’s current. To treat her as God, or as Everything, is to lose the whole pith and pleasure of her. Come out, look back, and then you will see
this astonishing cataract of bears, babies, and bananas: this immoderate deluge of atoms, orchids, oranges, cancers, canaries, fleas, gases, tornadoes and toads. How could you ever have thought that this was the ultimate reality? How could you ever have thought that it was merely a stage-set for the moral drama of men and women? She is herself. Offer her neither worship nor contempt.
Meet her and know her. If we are immortal, and if she is doomed (as the scientists tell us) to run down and die, we shall miss this half-shy and half-flamboyant creature, this ogress, this hoyden, this incorrigible fairy, this dumb witch. But the theologians tell us that she, like ourselves, is to be redeemed.
The ‘vanity’ to which she was subjected was her disease, not her essence. She will be cured in character: not tamed (Heaven forbid) nor sterilised. We shall still be able to recognise our old enemy, friend, playfellow and foster-mother, so perfected as to be not less, but more, herself. And that will be a merry meeting."
Adriana and I are doing well - - - Ana, Priscila, Adritha, and families (9 grandchildren) are doing great. Ruth is staying with us for a few months before she returns to Philadelphia.
Before the COVID Pandemic
