Feasting on life
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
by Derek Walcott
It occured to me this morning that despite the every rising cost of living, freezing temperatures and general ill will in our world - life is good. I am blessed is so many ways. Today, I feel a little closer to my own skin. Everyday I understand a bit better, about who I am and what I am about. How to fix things when they go awry, make myself happy and derive strength from within. I am feasting on my life today.
My life is good! I hope yours is too.
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Very cool Fluts
I have to agree :)
Life is great! I've had a great trip away from home over the last few days, and I will really enjoy being home tonight. The best of both worlds - this week has been (sound I, like Yoda).
Go now, I must.
Arbie
You lucky devil. I need to travel around the country for work a bit now. Jhb is becoming too mundane :)
Im sure your kids are going to be really excited to have you back.
Ha ha ha... yoda!!
Fluts
It's so good to read a "happy" blog for a change...yes, life is good. We are all blessed in so many ways. I am thankful, right now, for my youngest getting his driver's lisence a few weks ago and today, driving on his own, about 100Km's to fetch the card, go apply for a passport and make it back in one piece.
I offered to tag along but nope, he had to do it himself - and he did. That kid never stays in one place for too long. He's been on holiday for almost two weeks now, only 3 days at home and tomorrow flying off to Durban for a few days.
They grow up waaaaaay to fast.
But I'm grateful.
Flutter.
Agreed. Life is good.
I had a hell of a day today that started off with some real shitty news from Thai Immigration for breakfast, but hey. Heads up. I've got the girls and they make me happy. So much to be thankful for.
Things will work out; they usually do.
And if they don't, then I'll just have to deal with it.
Flutter
That poem is AWESOME. It's so much like I have been feeling recently as well. I am taking back my life and I am taking back my power. Been for energy healing and going for resonance repatterning. I have found pieces of my true self again and it is an amazing feeling. I didn't realise how much of me I had lost along the years.
I have also made a HUGE decision in my life and will share when everything happens.
This feeling of complete joy is so liberating. I'm loving it.
Hey Semi
Good to hear it. Can't wait to hear all about it. It is an awesome feeling to feel in control of your life and destiny and not that life is leading you by the collar. Great stuff!
Yeah Fluts
It is awesome. To take back power and not let things affect you that normally would.... it's GREAT. I actually surprise myself at how much better I have been feeling. I'm just sorry I did not do this earlier in my life. But realise that at the time I was not ready to deal with the issues I have to deal with. I am now and I am ready to let it all go.
Will tell you all about my life changing decision soon.
Flutter
Glad that you're getting it together. Lovely positive post.
Thanks TL
i think we need more positivity in the world. I only seem to blog when I am down and I need to change that. There are so many wonderful things happening amidst the mayhem.
Fluts
Cool poem and very cool post. More please!
Thanks for reading BP
Going to try to blog more often. Thanks!
Hey Flutts
Good to see you coming out of the doldrums. Forward and upward. Onward and ... um. Ag, whatever. Just go get it, OK?
Hey Dusts
You betcha! Life is too bloody short to not go for it!
Flutter
I have edited your blog to repair the "cite" tags.
ahh Mr X
Did you have to go burst my happy bubble? ;-)
and thanks!