Friday 2 October 2020

Monday 7 September 2020

About being ok in our own eyes

Help us to learn the lesson 

that we do not have to be defined 

by other people's opinion of us.


Whatever I am,

if I am ok in my own eyes,

I am ok, let the world say what it will.





Thursday 6 August 2020

About getting on with life

Life can be very daunting.
We just have to open our eyes
and get on with whatever is in front of them.

    

Monday 3 August 2020

About being imperfect

No-one is born into a perfect world or raised by perfect people.
Imperfection is all around us.

Is it surprising then that no-one is perfect? Of course not; it's inevitable.

All we can do is to try to be the best we can be and do the best we can do 
and forgive ourselves when we fall short of our ideals.


Friday 24 July 2020

About uncried tears

How many people are living 
in the prison of uncried tears.


Sunday 12 July 2020

About the safety net of anonimity

Aren't those of us who are not in the public eye
relieved that snipers are not scratting about 
in the dustbins of our own lives!



A plea for change

What kind of world have we created 
when, in order to protect one another, 
we have to mask our faces and keep our distance!

This is the exact opposite of what human life should be.
I despise masks of all kinds and wish to reach out and hold the people I love.

Please, please, please, let us stop, consider and act.

Thursday 28 May 2020

About our response to the corona virus

Is this nature, knocking at the door of our hearts and minds?

If so, may we open those doors,
to look, to listen, to learn - and to act.


Monday 25 May 2020

About 'knowing you, knowing me'

The title of this Abba song has intrigued me for a long time and has, to my mind, relevance to my blog. Whatever thoughts, opinions, views I write, however inconsequential or trivial they may be, are a reflection of me. If you should be interested enough to follow them, you are 'learning me'.

As we 'learn' each other, we 'learn' ourselves, I feel. I would love to think that I might be a little point of reference in the 'landscape of someone's life', however unknowingly. So here's to "knowing me, knowing you - aha", now and in time to come, hopefully.


About silence - strength or weakness

Sometimes silence is strength
and sometimes silence is weakness.

May we learn to judge which is which -
and have the strength to act accordingly.


Tuesday 12 May 2020

About the joy of our electric blanket

We live in a typically long and narrow Victorian semi and our bedroom is, without any shadow of a doubt, by far the coldest room in the house. Therefore, it goes without saying that an electric over-blanket is one of the necessities of our existence.

Nothing beats the bliss of climbing into bed on a cold winter's night to remove the last items of clothing to be discarded (it being an impossibility to remove all one's outer garments before being in the shelter of the bedding) and then snuggling down to feel the warmth of the blanket.

Each night finds me uttering such words as "this is heaven" or "this is my favourite moment of the entire day!"

Much as I love being in bed, I often muse on the fact that it's only in the winter that I appreciate this warmth. In the summer, when even I don't think about turning the blanket on, it's far more likely that I just take bedtime for granted.

In other words, we need to experience 'cold' to truly appreciate 'warmth'. Sometimes, it is only the absence of something which makes us aware of its presence.


A list of things that are worth paying good money for.

I'm as happy as the next person to buy a bargain but there are some things which are the 'real deal'  and are definitely worth paying a higher price for because they really are light years better than cheaper versions.

These are top of my list: 
  • Jam
  • Fairy liquid
  • Sellotape
This is not a definitive list and I'd love to think that anyone who happens to view this post might add to it, as I hope to when other items come into my head.


Monday 4 May 2020

Some more thoughts for parents

Whatever you do, dear parents, please do not make your children the centre of your lives because, one day, they'll be off doing their own thing - and this is right - but you do not want it to leave an unfillable hole in yours.

Make each other the centre of your lives and that will be the best gift you can give them to help them fly off from solid ground and that security will stay with them all their lives.

A PS for single parents, of which I was one for the best part of ten years when my three children were very young; I always made sure that they knew that I had friends and a life of my own so that they wouldn't worry about or feel responsible for me and would feel free to have their own lives.

In two out of the three cases, it went well. Well, you can't win them all, can you.


A thought for this new covid day - or any day, actually

Isn't it good to have someone to hold on to,
someone who is always there, someone who will stick by you 
through thick and through thin, come what may.


Thursday 30 April 2020

Three thoughts for our lives

May we learn from the past
and plan for the future
but live in the present.


Wednesday 15 April 2020

About what our friends are to us

Our friends are the jewels in the necklace 
      and the notches in the yardstick
                  of our lives.


About mastering nature - or not, as the case may be - and is.

We thought we had the power 
            to master nature in all its forms 
but nature is showing us 
            that it is able to and has mastered us.

May it lead us to acknowledge 

            that we have ignored it at our peril.


Friday 13 March 2020

Saturday 29 February 2020

About our backgrounds

It's not where we've come from that matters,
but where we are now
and where we are heading
(or hoping and trying to reach).


Thursday 20 February 2020

About charity being said to begin at home

Maybe charity does begin at home
but it shouldn't end there.


About spite

A week or so ago, I heard some news, which I recounted gleefully to my friend as 'gossip'. It aroused secretly spiteful thoughts in my head which I acknowledged, even at the time, as shameful.

I genuinely regretted my thoughts, even though they could be said to be 'only human' and not long afterwards this phrase popped into my head.

Spite despoils the spiteful.

I hope to be able to keep this thought in mind!


About tears

In order for tears to be wiped away,
they need to be cried.