Every Sunday - at the margins of the day, 6 am in the morning, or 11.30 at night, there is a half hour of concentrated pleasure to be heard on BBC's Radio 4 in the form of "Something Understood" - a programme of poetry, prose, and observations interlaced with both scared and secular music, each week on a different topic.
The theme today was "Ordinary Time" - a variation on the theme of my virtual friend Fran's blog "Sacred Ordinary" - of finding fulfilment in the acts and events of our own lives which we may find ordinary in the moment-by-moment... but which may sometimes be far from ordinary to other eyes.
You can "Listen Again" to today's programme and browse other themes and playlists at the programme archive. Give yourself a treat - kick back and discover half an hour of "Something Understood" - I think you will be pleased that you did.
Thank you for this link -- it was lovely! There is indeed great beauty, and also mission, in the "ordinary" --- probably because the ordinary is so very extraordinary. Best ... Cass
Posted by: Cass at That Old House | Monday, June 01, 2009 at 01:17