Robert Hayden
 

Those Winter Sundays


Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices

My sweet friend who is in the hospital...I'm worried about him.

I washed bedding yesterday.
Today I get to wash clothes.
And think.
And work on a project.

Christmas gifts. How this holiday will play out. How long I will have to work this evening. If I can sneak out the side door and go shopping unnoticed. I need a new job. I'm bored.

Laughter and a lot of it

Both pups made me carry them to bed

How things can improve as quickly as I improve my attitude!

What are the cockles of your heart and why do they need warming?

I don't care how many nice dogs there are, in the room. If there is one dog that bites in the room, I don't want to go in there.

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How good a shower felt

Every Christmas, I buy tree ornaments for friends I have that I can't visit. This has been a tradition with several of us for years. I am thinking I may have mixed up my ornaments. I have a "Babys First Christmas", 2012 floating around out there.... oh dear. Tradition is, we call each other on Christmas eve to open the presents. Haha , so I will not know till then. Thats whats on my mind.

History repeats itself... hopefully with better results
I have grown a lot in five years.
so have you.

My BestBear's surgery this morning.

Hoping it is swift and uneventful and that the recovery is smooth.

Like a dagger...
 

The feeling of an incredible heaviness within. Deep inside the recesses of my heart..over some very major realizations. :sadangel:

I have a seven year old son in Elementary School and I can not even put into words how devastated I am about the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. I see bullying in my sons school, I see shootings all over the country. It starts at the beginning with teaching love and acceptance instead of hate. So sad. My heart is with those who have lost their children. I will hold my son extra close tonight and forever.


My quote today:

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi

Kisses in the rain

Goodness and light always trumps the darkness
 

Googled what was on my mind...up there on the title...and this is what...
remains...always...remains.


“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”

― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart