Happy New Year

My dear Friends

Just to wish you all a very happy and blessed New year full of good things. May it also bring you good health and a fulfillment of all your dreams.

Apart from the concert in Starbucks, soon to be upon us, I am looking forward to a little gathering of some friends to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the founding of The Little Sisters of Joy, which started around this time in 1998 in Provence. Hard to believe that 11 years have gone by! the greatest thing to happen is that the foundation is becoming a registered charity, still in the pipeline, bur hopefully to be concluded in 2010.

I really value the contact with you all. If Andres is out there (he left a comment on the blog), I have Maryvonne's email address for you as she would like to be in touch.Maryvonne le Goanvic is the person who started The Little Sisters of Joy officially with me all those years ago in the upper room of Benigna's house at 22 Newton Road, Cambridge. The date was 7th March 1999. This date some years before, was apparently when some new Torah scrolls were delivered to the Synagogue in Cambridge, so an auspicious date.

I will be bringing the new year in at the Red Lion public house in Grantchester, a village on the outskirts of Cambridge, with a beautiful stretch of the river Cam and swans and ducks. So it will be a case of The Moving Swan! (title of my first book of memoirs). I have nearly finished the second edition of my life story to be called 'Under the silver trees,' a reference to the silver birch that is the emblem of the foundation, for its beauty and grace.

And so a Happy New Year once more!
Shalom from
Sister Gila