World IPF Week 4

Marking World IPF Week

Cameos - or, living with IPF (cameos made with sea glass and driftwood from Rockcliffe one of our favourite spots)

We gradually and rather painfully learnt by way of a slowly evolving process to find ways of living with IPF which worked like 'cameos', or 'spots of time'.

These became important moments that helped maintain a sense that life wasn't being entirely consumed by IPF (until it was) and they are now important memories. And so, the Wordsworth poem below (the inspiration for my blip name) fits well especially as it is National Poetry Day with the theme 'Remember'.

From William Wordsworth's The Prelude (Book 12, 1805 ed.)

There are in our existence spots of time,
That with distinct pre-eminence retain
A renovating virtue, whence–depressed
By false opinion and contentious thought,
Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,
In trivial occupations, and the round
Of ordinary intercourse–our minds
Are nourished and invisibly repaired;
A virtue, by which pleasure is enhanced,
That penetrates, enables us to mount,
When high, more high, and lifts us up when fallen.