And A Blessing

This could be a picture from today. It looks cold and it is.

It looks beautiful, and (to me) it is. I don't get out and 'play' in the snow as I did when a child but that's okay.

The stages of life. Some times I wish we could live life backwards. How many things I would have enjoyed more if I had known then what I know now?

When I Am Old.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired, And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells, And run my stick along the public railings, And make up for the sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick the flowers in other people's gardens, And learn to spit. You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat, And eat three pounds of sausages at a go, Or only bread and pickle for a week, And hoard pens and pencils and beer mats and things in boxes. But now we must have clothes that keep us dry, And pay our rent and not swear in the street, And set a good example for the children. We will have friends to dinner and read the papers. But maybe I ought to practise a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised, When suddenly I am old and start to wear purple! Jenny Joseph

Taken from: https://barbados.org/poetry/wheniam.htm

Proverbs 15:15 "All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. 16) Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. 17) Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.