A few further thoughts, (and I\u2019ll blame this on facebook always asking me What\u2019s on your mind?… a dangerous question, you\u2019ll see)
\nFirst to the beauty of my mid-October dahlia, whose colour is divine, to the tiny visitor at her centre, and to the crinkle and curl in her petals brought on by a frost that in no way diminishes her delicate beauty or \u2026 her strength. (see also further studies of me as a flower)<\/p>\n
Secondly, again to thinking about my dear Mrs. Pedden and how I could possibly have forgotten here name, and just how much it pains me to refer to someone as \u2018She\u2019 \u2013 (as I annoyingly admonish anyone who uses this term with- in my very best English accent- \u201cand just who is She, the cat\u2019s Mother!?!\u201d) And also this, just to add, whenever I write out thoughts\/ideas\/suggestions – it is never to make myself sound saintly or better than in anyway. Mostly as I have heard someone say, it is a way of talking to oneself.. but out loud.<\/p>\n In the end, Mrs. Pedden was in her mid-nineties and she did eventually move to a home for the aged. When she and her daughter told me of the move, I saw her off and wished her well, with thoughts that I would indeed visit her there. Yet I never did. The senior\u2019s home is not really within walking distance for me, and I am really just not a visitor. And also.. I think I use entirely too many commas..\u00a0\ud83e\udd14<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Oh, and lastly, if you have somehow unwillingly been caught up in the tangle of my wandering thoughts.. let me also say, A few further thoughts, (and I\u2019ll blame this on facebook always asking me What\u2019s on your mind?… a dangerous question, you\u2019ll see) First to the beauty of my mid-October dahlia, whose colour is divine, to the tiny visitor at her…
\n— if in fact you have no idea what I am talking about here, clearly you have not been following along\u00a0\ud83d\ude12<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t ever beat myself up about this, or really have any regrets, as I know well, this is just who I am and my nature. I don’t wish I had done it differently, because I just know.. I wouldn’t have.
\nI rarely invite anyone in, I have a slight panic whenever someone says, \u201clet\u2019s get together\u2019. I don\u2019t mean to come across as unfriendly, uninviting or uncaring. As I have mentioned before, I am just not much for the telephone and while I do keep a caring heart on two of my other elderly neighbours who now both live alone, it is still just in my own way. I shovel their snow in winter, we have a brief chat as we pass by, we wave and smile.
\nNever would I want you to think I am telling you just how very wonderful and serving I am, as I do know many, many, many, manymanymanymany people who are quite a bit more wonderful than I, and do indeed do wonderful things in the world.
\nMy only intention here is to say to you, as well as to myself, that I do believe every little bit of kindness is so very essential to our (the whole of us as human kind) to our well-being.
\nAnd this\u2026 is my heart.\u00a0\ud83d\udc97<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\njust think
\nhow very delightful it must be..
\nfor my lovely husband!\u00a0\ud83d\ude0f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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