4G 2023 04 01

 One feels duty bound,

To write to you today.

How can I let the first

Go by.

Not just any first,

The first of April!

I would indeed a fool

Be

To miss the day.

I told you of dates and times

That were different

To the ones you use.

Now in 1582 the French

Changed their calendar.

From Julius to Gregor.

New Year was no longer

The onset of Spring.

Julius liked to welcome the buds and growth

While Gregor has a Midwinter

Party.

If you had a party for Spring,

Say, on April 1^st?

Instead of yeehar, your friends

Said eeyor, eeyor to know better.

You were apparently a Fool.

Party poopers all!

I say, like Bill and Ted, (and Julius),

"Party on dudes."

4G 2023 03 29

 When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

To make a good lemonade you should have plenty of sweetness.

In fact, roughly equal parts in volume of water, lemon juice, and sugar.

That is alot of sugar, more than I have in a month of coffees.

Now you may wonder why I give you a recipe for lemonade?

I think I just got given a sack of lemons.

At this time I have no idea how it will end.

My neighbours where I stay have left. Left work at school,

Left the building, left the country.

Firstly, there was a mix-up. The person in charge made some bad words and people thought it was me who had left.

Secondly, their place next door has become a building site.

Working on the shared wall in the evening yesterday.

Today in my flat much dust and noise and less space because of their building.

Yep, a sack of lemons for sure.

While they finish their noise for the day, ha, ha, I write and wait away. Looking for the sweetness to smile and make some lemonade.

I hope your day has been a lemonade day and not a lemon day?!

4G 2023 03 26

 
Sunday morning, cloudy, humid, sticky,

A storm impending.

Out to walk and finding many people

Walking slowly. Out of respect.

Two important men of the church,

Popes have passed.

I watched as their funeral passed,

Heading to Holy Trinity Church by Arat Kilo.

I will picture the church for you in the week,

Many famous or important people are remembered there.

Today I am happy to be here

In many ways.

I am out in the cafe with people

Writing to you.

Instead of a day travelling, which with the weather

The way it is may have been a problem,

I can decide for myself what to do.

Those are good days aren't they?

When you choose what you will do,

Where you will go, what you will eat,

Et cetera . . .

Yesterday was odd because it seemed

That other people had taken over

My time and decisions. Today

I reclaim me.

It is important that when you have

Many things to do you can feel that

You are deciding how to do them at least.

Being told and decided for are not

What we do best.

When people who want to make other people

Do stuff want to write books

About how clever they are, they call this process

"Buy in". Capitalism eh?

I am not sure I my free will should be for sale.

I hope that you will learn to live

Consciously and without the dependence

That our last few generations have developed.

Deep and meaningful and caffeinated and

Many words there for your mom to explain!

Tee hee :-)