Like everyone's, our Christmas day was a day of highs and lows. Oddly though it was divided into pre and post dinner.
The children behaved beautifully up to and including dinner and then the tiredness and excitement got the better of them and the day tapered off.
All in all though it was everything that I wanted it to be in the circumstances and I am looking for 'real' not for 'perfect'.
My only sibling and sister "Tricky Crow" came around to visit in the morning with her husband "Professor Dumbledore". That was an enjoyable couple of hours and as much contact with the outside world as we required. Of course there were the usual family and friend calls and we extended this to video Skyping both mine and Kitten's parents so that they could see the children open the presents that they had given them.
Today, as always, is a very different day. Boxing day often seems an easier day to enjoy and I have risen from the pit later having read the the Sunday Times and having gazed out into the clear blue skies with the birds circling in the distance and perching on telephone wires nearby. The day feels like clarity itself and I feel that a walk may be on the cards through the trickiness of the ice-smattered pavements.
My parents are still very much housebound and it seems that their village, at the head of the valleys, is the worst affected by the snow and ice. My mother has not been out for close to two weeks now!
It is the stillness and crispness of days like this that I enjoy most. A time for absorbing and for feeling and for relaxing rather than for doing. A day for clear minds and clear thinking.
Hi Rumps and family
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear Christmas Day was a good one for you and you are chilling with your family today.
You were all in my thoughts yesterday.
Lets hope for a bit of respite.
Best wishes as ever
Changeling x
Cheers Changeling.
ReplyDeleteIt is certainly quieter today and more relaxing!
Hello Rumps
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear you had a "good" day yesterday, and I hope you continue with your "respite" over the rest of this festive season.
Changing the subject somewhat, after reading todays blog, it strikes me that you obviously have a literary talent for describing your surroundings and so building a picture in "one's" mind eye etc.
In this respect, I wonder if you have written any more poetry?, the piece you posted regarding your father was inspiring, and so I would invite you to post more if and when you write this, time allowing of course?....
Staying on a literary level, myself, I am a great fan of the work of Charles Dickens mainly because he uses his works to attack the social evils, unjustice, and hypocrisy in the Victorian Age.
Plus I adore the "old english" that characterizes his work.... eg from Scrooge...
....."And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well if any man alive possessed the knowledge"....
Anyway, I digress...hope you managed to get out for a walk in the December winter sunshine of this rather bitter winters afternoon. I have just returned myself and as I walked back across the park the street lights began to come on one by one, with their amber flickering lights dancing shadows across my path as the now fading sunlight of this winters afternoon, gave way to dusk.
A dog was barking far in the distance, and I could feel the temperature dropping as my breath started to freeze, and the cold air started to bite into my lungs as I walked more briskly hoping to be in the comfort of my warm and cosy living room before the black vale of darkness fell completely over the dimly lit park. As I turned my key in my door, I felt "safe" as I heard the distance voices of my family chattering in the living room down the long hallway. Home at last!
A little bit of a poetic licence!....
All the best
Triple Witcher
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ReplyDeletethere is poetry throughout the blog (including my mantra). Most of it is buried closer to the beginning of the blog though.
I am going to publish it all on its own page and hope to do so this week. It is just a question of organising it into some sort of flow.
I note that there are more than a few similarities between you and I, though whilst you are an accomplished writer I do not read. Many find that odd but I find reading quite demanding.
Anyway, I leave you with this thought (published earlier)
Serendipity....
Is the greatest healer
It's the light and I'm the feeler
And I would walk into its arms
Forgive me if I appear surprised
But hey!
That is its magic charm
Cheers
Rumps
ReplyDeleteSerendipity....
...."Serendipity..the propensity for making fortunate discoveries while looking for something unrelated"..
A word first used by Horace Walpole in the 1700's....
I found the comments relating to your "Faith Healer" very interesting....and if you could put down into words how you feel...post your visit, it would be welcomed and appreciated...
I am sure you will find your "inner peace"
My friend whom I lost due to illness believed that "we all have a soul, and we don't die, its only the human body that dies"....
A nice thought, and I suppose it was his beliefs which indeed allowed him to stay focused throught his illness.
A conversation for another day maybe!
Take care my friend, and I will leave you to focus on "dusting off your decks"....
Triple Witcher