Packing for our coming move proceeds…sporadically, and with some difficulty. But it is still ongoing. I’ve been finding that I have bursts of ability, so I dart about, trying to do what I can in that space. Then the next day or so it feels like I’m coming down with flu!
Today I thought I’d tackle the stuff under the bed. In my head, it seemed simple (I do a lot of “packing” in my head). In reality, I found I couldn’t pull the larger boxes out far enough to clean them down, and ended up sitting on the dusty carpet, crying… Thankfully, my Babe was around to help ❤ I cleaned off the dust, in preparation for packing more in the boxes that have space. Then I was able to do the ordinary cleaning, before luxuriating in a lovely hot bath 🙂
We still don’t know where we’re moving to. We just have to trust that it will all come together when it needs to. In the meantime – here’s a song that came out today!
Well, Australian music has had a rough time of it lately 😥 Yesterday, we said goodbye to another iconic voice – Olivia Newton-John. Another voice from my childhood…also one of the first (in my memory) of a singer with a definite Aussie accent. My memories are mostly from the 70s and 80s, from Grease to the Xanadu/Physical era. I didn’t really know which song to pick for this post – the songs from Grease didn’t seem to fit…so here’s one from Xanadu!
Sometimes the world seems a little…too much. Sometimes it’s easy to forget our roles in life – the possibilities we have of making the world a little better. …and sometimes we could do with being reminded that we’re not helpless, with nothing to say!
Brings to mind some verses –
“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” – Amos 5:24
And one of my favourites – “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” – Micah 6:8
And if you still need cheering up, here’s one that came out today. ❤
…and, of course, many other characters over a nearly 80 year career. Bernard Cribbins died yesterday. I mostly know him for playing Wilfred Mott in Doctor Who, but there were many roles over a long period of time. If you haven’t seen him in a role, then you’ve probably heard him!
I’ve been enjoying the rain – it’s not too cold at the moment, and this type of rain seems to bring the day closer and open up the years to memory. I wonder if that’s a universal feeling to rain? There’s a certain nostalgia, a breath of childhood, to these kinds of day. There’s also a fleeting breeze of possibility, ready for the catching. I’m not sure why – my childhood memories of rain tend to be more cyclonic… when I moved to England, I would find myself getting soaked at first. The rain I encountered there seemed to me to be so light that I wouldn’t need an umbrella. It was light, and soft, but also inexorable. I would find myself dripping without having noticed how wet it actually was, and somehow even wearing a raincoat didn’t seem to keep the damp out. On the other hand, the first time my Babe and I came back to Australia for a holiday we travelled around the country a bit. While we were in Cairns it started to rain just before we were going out. He immediately put on a coat. I couldn’t understand it – up north, the rain tends to be warm, and the humidity unbearable. A coat just doesn’t make sense! He soon found that out 😆 but it was just a difference in understanding – in England you put on a coat to go out in the rain, whatever the season…
Thinking about nostalgia… YouTube gives me suggestions for clips to play. Generally they’re based on what I’ve been watching recently, but sometimes it dredges up an old clip from years before. This is one that came up last night.
😥 As a Mum, this makes me sniffle a little. My boys will be moving out in the next few months, and I am happy for them to go out there and live their lives. It does bring home, though, that all the plans for their childhood are no longer valid – too late for all the places we were going to go, and the things we were going to do. There’s a sadness to that, but also an understanding that you can’t do everything. The window of opportunity to do better, to use time wisely, never really closes!
But, for today, I will watch the rain. Dream. And remember. ❤
…when you’re feeling down, what’s the quickest way to cheer yourself up?
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I remember this from the radio, many years ago. After the actual song came out, one of our local radio stations took it as their ad music (they replaced the “wo-o-ahh” bit with their name), so it was on air for a while, in one way or another. This version makes me want to dance!
I also like to take random photos 😆 Here are some flowers I saw yesterday.
A winter bee? 😀
I hope you’re not in the shadows at the moment. But, if you are, I hope that you can still see the flowers, and listen to the music! ❤
I’ve been out and about a couple of times in the last week or so. In the past, I’ve wandered around the place, enjoying my time, but not seeing anyone I know. These times, I ran into four lots of people, and had a good old catch up (yay!) 😀 I’ve just started on a new, stronger, pain killer. After a day out, I tend to need to stay in bed to recover. I had hoped to be OK this time, but apparently the painkiller takes a few days to kick in properly. I think I am basically an optimist. I can see beauty, and hope, in all sorts of things. Some (probably most) days I can see the days ahead, and future endeavours waiting for me. I can luxuriate in “not pain” for periods of time (when you have “definitely not not pain” 🙂 you are very aware when it goes away for a bit). Yesterday was mostly luxurious. Today was not. Still – life is a wonderful, curious, slightly ridiculous journey.
But… Some days are sombre, just get through, deal with the now type of days. Still flashes of beauty. Leaps of joy. But also a closer understanding of mortality. Life is good. And sometimes difficult… Still, the light shines through.
a bit of creativity, a bit of eco consciousness, a bit of inspiration.... hopefully not a lot of pompousness and blathering :D
i'm not entirely sure what's going on here... let's travel along and see...
1000 Fields of Roses 