Thanks Momđź’ś

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Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

Some of you guys kind enough to read my blog occasionally, to like/acknowledge and especially to take the time to comment is awesome. Thank you. You may recall me adding quotes often – Seems to me there are a lot of wise folk out there, with interesting and valid things to pass on to us.

But I’m not sure where to start this morning putting them here on the page, to share with you…. Oh yes I do!

The last words my mom said to me were ‘ Count your blessings, Love’

Love Cornwall.

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What is your favourite holiday? Why is it your favorite?

I’ve written about spending time down in Cornwall with some friends, more than once WP. We stay in a Shepherds Hut on their land and have a blissful few days. Patch loves the beach, swimming, he has a blast. Seeing  him ao happy certainly makes me happy.

This DP will come around again this time next year. Hopefully, I’ll be feeling more creative.

Even the word makes me shudder

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Have you ever been camping?

As much as I love nature and being outdoors, camping doesn’t sit right with me. Four Season Hotels–worldwide? Now you’re talking.

Many moons ago, I was patrol leader of the Robins at Girl Guides, in Birmingham,  UK. I even got my red camping lanyard, but it didn’t feel great. Just one of those things you did as a kid without question.

Now? Not a chance… Unless..   I think it through. Decide when and where and focus on it being a natural world/wildlife spotting/bonding experience.

It’s not something I could even consider whilst I share a life with Patch… it wouldn’t work on so many levels. Love him

These are a few of my favourite things

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When do you feel most productive?

Without one shadow of a doubt, first thing is when I feel most productive and alive. Before all, the noise and interference begin.

Quiet, calm, cool, peaceful. The empty, clean first page of the day..with a soothing audio of birdsong, maybe a light breeze, swishing through the trees. A pair of red kites, a bright-eyed and agile hare, and when I am really lucky, the barn owl doing its final sweep. Bliss.

Emily has more to say…

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What are your favorite emojis?🥳

A charm invests a face
Imperfectly beheld—
The Lady dare not lift her Veil
For fear it be dispelled—

But peers beyond her mesh—
And wishes—and denies—
Lest Interview—annul a want
That Image—satisfies—

Emily Dickinson  (1830~1886)

Shhhh

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What topics do you like to discuss? I have given this space today to Langston Hughes

Silence

I catch the pattern
Of your silence
Before you speak

I do not need
To hear a word.

In your silence
Every tone I seek
Is heard.

By Langston Hughes (1901~1967)

Christina Rossetti. What a star đź’«

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When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out?

DP@WP ‘ You can not be serious?!’ John McEnro, Wimbledon, UK. 1981

Really? Didn’t we have a risk question yesterday?

Allow me to give this space to the amazing Christina Rossetti..  .

A Daughter of Eve

A  fool was I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It’s winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm’d sweet to-morrow:—
Stripp’d bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.

By Christina Rossetti ( 1830~1894)

Saudi to Jordan

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Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.

The reasons I accepted a job in Saudi for a high profile Sheikh and his doctor wife as a nanny, all those years ago are sad ones. Morbid, even. But those stories can wait.

Going there was certainly a risk. Saudi? Yikes, that’s a bit different from anything I was ever used to. It was quite the experience. For two years, living inside the walls of a family compound. Not many outsiders got to see and witness the inner sanctum, like I did.

It’s true I was mightily relieved to get headhunted for a job taking me to Jordan, and I could move on. This next job was the best I’ve ever had. Career-wise at the top of my game an incredible, unforgettable experience.

The ever lovely Emily Dickinson

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Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently? Sorry, WP, not feeling today’s DP. Instead, I give this space to she. Thank you

Bee! I’m expecting you!
Was saying Yesterday
To Somebody you know
That you were due —

The Frogs got Home last Week —
Are settled, and at work —
Birds, mostly back —
The Clover warm and thick —

You’ll get my Letter by
The seventeenth; Reply
Or better, be with me —
Yours, Fly.

By Emily Dickinson ( 1830~ 1886)