purpose into each day. Also, it gives the opportunity prayerfully to ‘visit’ several different people and situations, and this has the valuable spin-off effect of taking me out beyond the confines of my own home and circumstances. It is also possible to read a small section of a devotional book during these quiet times. (Nothing heavy, I can’t cope with complexities yet.) What good companions such books have been! It was interesting that, in those early autumn days, I often fell asleep during times