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Author: Pam Holland
I travel the world teaching and talking.
Photographing and writing,
Sharing experiences
What a way to go.
Almost there
The bags are packed and I'm taking a few minutes to update the blog while we wait for our car to the airport. I can't believe that I will have 4 months home. However, to complete everything I want to do I'm going to have to be well disciplined… I have some new ideas for…
Please
Please think how lucky you are. Please enjoy the things you have. Please give a little thought for a small boy who wears his school uniform on a Sunday and plays the flute in the street to earn money. I have in my memory, a small girl, aged about 5, kneeling, hands outstretched on the…
A day off today.
It's the first day for a long time that I've not been committed to the time of others and despite feeling tired it's 1.00 am and sleep eludes me. I decided to get up and set the alarm for an early start in the morning… then… I played on the computer… Keith and I wandered…
I’m offically on sabbatical. !!!
The last class today and as of this day, the 19th of September I am officially on sabbatical. Does the word sabbatical apply to a quilter? Of course I'll be working, but two years ago I made a decision not to teach for the next four months so I could work on my books and…
Bangkok class
“love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back many times over what you put into it†Maya Angelou. I had a great day today. My students were just wonderful and very enthusiastic. It's an absolute gift to spent time with people who…
Russian painting.
I purchased this watercolor painting in St Petersburg. In fact, it's a naive painting of people celebrating pancake day. The people are in a traditional log house and they drinking tea from the big urn on the table cooking, food in the oven, you can see the traditional earthen ware pot being lifted from the…
Bangkok
It's 10.30 pm, Bangkok time…. 7.30 pm in Moscow. 4.30 pm in London. I've had a couple of hours sleep in the past 28 hours and I am really ready for bed. The hot shower felt good and soothingly refreshing. We arrived in Bangkok late this afternoon and went straight to tomorrows teaching venue. Sponsored…
Just about to fly.
I'm in the British Airways club and catching up on business and important family stuff…. It's 4 hours to London, 4 hours wait and the 11.5 hours to Bangkok. I have two presentations to begin and I might get some more of the Alphabet book written…. oh and of course I'll sleep a little. …