My dear Friends
I thought I would show you pictures of two important things in my life-the silver birch tree in the garden and the Sabbath table (at bottom of Blog.) I think I mentioned earlier that the silver birch tree is the natural symbol of The Little Sisters of Joy. Tall, mysterious and elegant, we planted the first one in January 2000 on the Jewish New year for Trees, to commemorate the birth of the Foundation and the new life of Benigna's son-in-law, the composer Latif Freedman. It is now a very tall tree and beautifully moves in the breeze.
This second one, in my garden in the Arbury, was planted in 2004 and I have lived with it ever since. It gives me much joy to gaze at it from the living room window and it is growing really tall as well.I would love to see the forests in Russia and Scandinavia.There is a connection with Toronto too as there is an avenue of silver birches near the Criminology department of the university, as there is here in Cambridge.
The second picture is of my Shabbat table. You can see the braided bread and the wine; there is usually a white cloth with the Hebrew word shabbat over the bread , but its kinda nice to see the loaves. The candles are important too; the mother of the house lights them and sings the song of the angels to herald the Shabbat. I hope you can see I was trying to prepare a nice meal!
Anyway, just two things I wanted to share with you.
Love and Shalom
Sister Gila
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1 comment:
The silver birch is lovely, and your food is very good, I can testify to that! All so interesting, thank you. B
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