Wednesday 14th December
A year older today . Happy birthday to me. Above is Michaels gift –
A new White Peace Lily
Day 14
It is not enough to have peace. We are meant to extend it to others,
to increase the amount of it in the world,
to be signs of the quietude it brings to those who spread it.
And from Mary Oliver something I often share with others
just the perfect poem for a birthday
it is not too much
not too little
it is the goldilocks birthday poem . . . just right.
Birthday
I wish I was twenty and in love with life
and still full of beans.
Onward, old legs!
There are the long, pale dunes; on the other side
the roses are blooming and finding their labor
no adversity to the spirit.
Upward, old legs! There are the fo and there is the sea
shining like a song, like a body
I want to touch
though I’m not twenty
and won’t be again, but ah! in my seventies And still
in love with life, And still
full of beans.
Mary Oliver from Red Bird
This day, my birthday was set down as the last SWW meeting with a workshop with Jan Cornell, and a Book selling market . I took 3/4 books of the two verse novels and only sold 3 books all up as there was as many sellers as buyers. At least it was great to see all the books we as a group have written.
Pip at our selling table Jan Cornell giving the key note address
BIRTHDAY EVENING SEA FOOD DINNER AT THE DOLPHIN HOUSE
