Good Morning

Good morning folks - hope you will have a good dau or had a good day.

Just Wondering

What's the oldest piece of still wearable clothing do you have?

Do you buy special stamps for special occasions (like Christmas themed stamps for holiday cards)?

What's your favourite flavoru of yogurt?

Recharge

Had a long lie-in this morning.It was frosty when i looked out the window at seven so i decided to crawl back to bed.I have moved a visit from today to tomorrow.

It was also the free lunch Tuesday - so i did not want to miss out on that.Leek and potato soup followed by a jacket potato and corn beef and beans topping. The dessert was lemon tart - which i did not have as i am not into things like that.

So i am recharging the batteries so to speak.

Reading Towards December

Books in my reading pile at the moment -

Naomi Alderman - The Power
Simone de Beavoir - Letters To Sartre
Joan Didion - Where I Am From
Iain Sinclair- London Overground
Ted Hughes - Birthday Letters
Peter Ackroyd - The Plato Papers

Extra Poem of The Week

The World Is A Beautiful Place

Poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti


The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don't mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don't sing
all the time

The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind some people dying
all the time
or maybe only starving
some of the time
which isn't half bad
if it isn't you

Oh the world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't much mind
a few dead minds
in the higher places
or a bomb or two
now and then
in your upturned faces
or such other improprieties
as our Name Brand society
is prey to
with its men of distinction
and its men of extinction
and its priests
and other patrolmen

and its various segregations
and congressional investigations
and other constipations
that our fool flesh
is heir to

Yes the world is the best place of all
for a lot of such things as
making the fun scene
and making the love scene
and making the sad scene
and singing low songs and having inspirations
and walking around
looking at everything
and smelling flowers
and goosing statues
and even thinking
and kissing people and
making babies and wearing pants
and waving hats and
dancing
and going swimming in rivers
on picnics
in the middle of the summer
and just generally
'living it up'
Yes
but then right in the middle of it
comes the smiling

mortician


And one by Ken Nordine

Ken Nordine - Coffee

Good Night

Well, what indeed?