No.
200 SUMMER 2008
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ukADDRESS
LOOKING TWICE
FROM THE MINISTER
BY the end of this month
the schools will close and for
children seven long weeks of
summer will stretch ahead
of them.
Can you remember
how you felt on the...
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No.
200 SUMMER 2008
http://www.
dunblanecathedral.
org.
ukADDRESS
LOOKING TWICE
FROM THE MINISTER
BY the end of this month
the schools will close and for
children seven long weeks of
summer will stretch ahead
of them.
Can you remember
how you felt on the first day
of the school holidays - that
sense of anticipation you had
of a whole summer at the
disposal of your imagination?
That first day of the holidays
was always the best.
“You must learn to look at the world twice if you
wish to see all there is to see.
”
But I remember someone
writing about the summer he
lost his imagination.
It was
the first day of the holidays
for him.
He had yearned for
the time to come.
Memories
of the previous summer were
still strong, long days spent
playing in the garden, racing
miniature cars and trucks
with his friends.
When the last bell of the
school year rang, he ran
home to get everything ready,
and next morning he hauled
it all outside.
With the sun
on his back he sat down in
his special pl
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