It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, but I have already posted pictures of nature's beauty, so let's just rejoice in the sight of Johnny playing the piano.....cheers me up no end!
Tuesday 14 June 2011
on a completely different note...
It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, but I have already posted pictures of nature's beauty, so let's just rejoice in the sight of Johnny playing the piano.....cheers me up no end!
Thursday 9 June 2011
The morning of beautiful thoughts
As I walked with Eddie among grasses and bushes and trees, the northern skies rushed hurriedly above my head with huffs and puffs of inflated cumuli blown by the winds that have been finally bringing some rain in these last few days.
And I found that thoughts were filling my head, swirling as fast as those clouds, all beautiful thoughts which spilled joy and contentment into my heart and made me smile.
I thought of the present I bought Amelia yesterday for her upcoming graduation, I am so pleased with it; and I though of her studying so hard these last few days before her final exam and felt so proud.
Then my eyes saw a patch of daisies in the parched grasses and my mind was filled with images of the lavender and the santolina I want to buy and plant this summer in the country. I will also try to sow poppies, the Californian ones we had in Jersey; Amelia loved to delicately pull their little hats freeing the blooms underneath. And herbs like borage, bergamot, nigella and maybe echinacea. I wonder whether I could find meadow flowers in one of the nurseries. I will definitely need to buy a Buddha, like the one I have here, who will live in the garden there, casting his benign, serene smile over my plants.
On days like this I walk with a smile, look with a smile and still feel inside the excitement and passion of being very much alive and well and wanting to do things and having thousands of things I still wish to do. I will sow and I wil bake, I will celebrate my birthday with the people I most care about, I will transform my garden into a feast for the eyes which hopefully will imprint a beautiful image in dad's mind that not even his cruel illness will be able to snatch. And then, hopefully, I will start travelling again, and face one more adventure with the girls and we will fill our eyes with the world.
I thought of the present I bought Amelia yesterday for her upcoming graduation, I am so pleased with it; and I though of her studying so hard these last few days before her final exam and felt so proud.
On days like this I walk with a smile, look with a smile and still feel inside the excitement and passion of being very much alive and well and wanting to do things and having thousands of things I still wish to do. I will sow and I wil bake, I will celebrate my birthday with the people I most care about, I will transform my garden into a feast for the eyes which hopefully will imprint a beautiful image in dad's mind that not even his cruel illness will be able to snatch. And then, hopefully, I will start travelling again, and face one more adventure with the girls and we will fill our eyes with the world.
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