Onedin Line Timeless Themes

by Susan Ternyey, June 2025 What makes a successful marriage?  Examples:  Anne & James, Robert & Sarah Season 1 Episode 1 “The Wind Blows”      Anne and James begin their marriage as a partnership, and that is a good way to begin a successful marriage.  They each have something to bring to the marriage (notContinue reading “Onedin Line Timeless Themes”

The Labor

by ST, 1980s Born one night– no room in the inn: crowded–every place filled full. The burden of the taxing: Payment must be made. The Only, the Humblest abode where the Lamb was kept: the Stable, the Christ was there born one night. Bourne one night in agony while others slept, a Man of constantContinue reading “The Labor”

In the Last Days, Before the New Arrival

by ST, in the 1980s From early spring, in the season of the Lamb, We waited for news from the distant land: How fares the Vineyard, shall the tree give the fig? When harvest time is here, shall ought fill the crib? The month of Julius, then Augustus, the days were wasted, To pregnant fields,Continue reading “In the Last Days, Before the New Arrival”

Pumpkin & Mouse: a parable

by ST, mid 1980s A pumpkin among many in a pumpkin patch, a mouse with a crust of bread to pack; each thought of the other but little or none; the mouse scurried by trying to get things done, the pumpkin sat stationary: content to just soak up sun. But someone knew how great aContinue reading “Pumpkin & Mouse: a parable”