No Sea, No Seagulls, No Sandy Shore
Interesting what seems to appeal to people. Being a little in the mood to escape from the normal day to day is not uncommon for me when I get to this blog. I have found it a way to forget work and to forget some of the more pressing needs and goals that daily life just require. I also have enjoyed re thinking and recalling a lot of my own, more favorite things, I have read.
A week ago I posted a note saying "I was skipping a day". Since then I have not really had a lot to say. A week ago our older son burned his back very badly in a fire. His shirt caught fire on the stove. He is still in the hospital. I spent last week with him. Some who read this blog will already know that. Those that have remembered him in prayers we appreciate. I think he will be ok in another week. I will be joining him again soon.
It would be nice to go down by the sandy shore.
But for me I could get the same from the trail next door
No segulls to flutter round, but sun and sky and wind all about
No need to wait until the tide is out
I found in Caroline Kennedys book, Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy, that some of the best poems in the book were not the famous authors but the few that Jacqueline wrote. This one below is a good one. A good one to take you away to another place. Maybe a private place. You may have noticed my feet on the right in the picture above.
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Sea Joy
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When I go down by the sandy shore
I can think of nothing I want more
Than to live by the booming blue sea
As the seagulls flutter round about me
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I can run about - when the tide is out
With the wind and the sand and the sea all about
And the segulls are swirling and diving for fish
Oh-to live by the sea is my only wish.
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