Fi Phillips

Yesterday I wrote about my affection for the month of September but  autumn in general is a favourite time of the year for me. Like the harvest from the fields, orchards and hedgerows, this season always feels like a time of reward and fruition. As I mentioned yesterday, autumn brought to me my daughter and my husband. This was also when I got married. In her '52 Qualities of Prosperous Writers' newsletter, Christina Katz wrote this week about being 'bountiful'. She writes, Bountiful implies that your cup is already overflowing so you simply tip your abundance into the hands of others. No sainthood required! One thing I'm always thankful for is the abundance of ways in which I can apply my writing. There's this blog of course, the plays I write for Murdering The Text and the ideas I have for novels too. More recently, my writing 'cup' has overflowed and with the help of my husband (who is also my writing partner), we've taken the scenario and...

Today is not only the first day of August but also Lammas, pagan celebration of the first harvest of the year, the early crop. As the plants in your garden are still growing, so your plans are continuing and ongoing. This is the time to take pleasure in what you've achieved so far this year and look ahead with happy expectation to continuing that journey. My children and I will be making bread loaves today to eat with our Sunday roast. My daughter wants to shape hers into a doll and my son's will probably end up being an alien from Ben 10. I think I'll make some plaited bread loaves myself. If you decide to make bread today too, then don't forget to leave the crumbs out for the birds. Have a wonderful day.