Hmmm . . . .

Have you ever done that? Sat down with a blank page staring you in the face and you have no idea of what to write . . . This happened to me this morning. It’s not that I have nothing to say, it’s that I have too much to say. All the thoughts are clambering around in my head like jangling cymbals and I can’t seem to grasp onto just one of them and give it wings to fly.

 

My brain is busy and my thoughts are many, and all is swirling around in this head of mine and causing a chaotic whirl storm, much like the wind that is carousing through my back garden right now, swirling up fallen rose petals and causing the branches of the bush by the kitchen window to scratch upon the glass. I know if I were to put my coat on and go out into it, it would push against my back and urge me forward, almost taking my steps for me.

 

 

Some days are like that. You wrap yourself up and then wish for something or someone to move you forward and guide your steps. The effort sometimes seems too much to accomplish on your own, but you do it anyways. Lifting first one foot and then the other, moving each slowly forward and before you know it you have moved forward by a yard, and then two yards and next thing you know you have arrived! That’s the way I tackle the challenges in my life.

 

Oh yes, there is a part of me that just wants to accept defeat and lie down in the face of them, like the lazy slug that I sometimes feel . . . but then there is a greater part of me that is more stubborn and determined than any problem or challenge that might come my way.

 

I start off with baby steps, maybe even minute steps, but the beautiful thing is, that each step I take carries me a little bit further away from the problem or challenge and a bit closer to the solution. Oft-times there is just no getting around something. The only way to go, is to plough right through, and then keep going. We’ll get there in the end. 

 

I wish . . .

It was 20+ here yesterday. I am not sure what that is in farenheit temperatures, but it was plenty warm. Thankfully no humidity. I don't mind heat without humidity.  I worked really hard this past month on that other site.  Sixteen recipes, as well as trying to keep up my own site.  I think my son and I are going to try to self-publish my second book, which is the book I really wanted to write the first time around. We will see how that goes.  

This has been a really crazy week with everything that is going on in the world. My heart breaks.  There is so much that I cannot comprehend.  Yesterday they found an elderly man who had been stoned to death on the grounds of a castle down in Kent. Then there is what happened in Minneapolis, which boggles the mind, and everything that is attached to that horror.  Just when you hope that humanity might be going to finally get it right, stuff like this happens and you despair that things will ever truly get better on our planet.  I know we have to take the bad with the good, but why is there so much bad   . . .  sigh  . . . have we learnt nothing from out past? 

A thought to carry with you  . . . 

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 *You cannot save people,

you can only love them.

~Anais Nin   •。★★ 。* 。  

  

In The English Kitchen today  . . .  Small Batch Magic Cookie Bars.  Dangerous.  

Have a great Saturday.  The sun is shining and at 7 am, it is already 10*C in the back garden shaded area.  Who knows how much in the sunshine.  Don't forget! 

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 And I do too!