MY LIFE: JUST IN CASE!

“To get to know a woman

don’t look inside her heart,

just rummage through her handbag

the perfect place to start!

Handbags, whether large or small

tell our secrets, one and all.”

Excerpt from a poem HANDBAGS by Elijah A. Terry

This morning  I was preparing my handbag on my way to work, every day I carry a handbag to work,  I carry a handbag to go shopping, actually every time I leave the house, I carry my handbag with me.  Even when I am going for my early morning squash session, I leave my handbag in the car, in case I need something in it, in the three minutes it takes to drive from my house to the squash court.  Normally, I just pick a handbag that suits what I am wearing (to the best of my ability, I am not exactly a fashionista).  I then absent-mindedly switch the contents from the handbag I used previously to the one I will be using.   I carry roughly the same things every day.

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Stop the world, I want to get off!

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important. Mariel Hemingway

Do you ever feel like you want the world to stop so that you can get off?  Not die, I don’t mean get of permanently, I mean just a chance for you to take a break from your life.  I know I do.  Sometimes things get so overwhelming that I feel, if I get thrown one more thing, I will just crumble!  Sometimes I get so weary, so tired and feel like I am losing myself to all that is around me.  Continue reading

Music in my Head!

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo

I want to talk about sound, about music.   I want to talk to you about all the times that music has said for us what we cannot say.  I believe that songs have been written to express every emotion on this earth, well maybe not all emotions, but very near it.  Continue reading