Hey 🙂
Today was another lovely day, which we took with us to a beach on the Fife coast. There is a craze at the moment for hiding painted stones for others to find and relocate to a spot of the finders choice. We have been hunting around our local area, but had to hop over the Kincardine Bridge before we had any luck 😉 we discovered a lovely rock on the beach (from a nursery in those parts), and then Eldest and Hubby found three more beauties on their trek in the nearby woods. (Youngest’s legs were hurting, so I’d taken him back to the car for chat and cuddles)
The boys rehid the first rock on the beach, but have taken the other three home with us to plant wherever our next adventure takes us! So grateful to the artists of these rocks, the boys loved looking at them. We have painted some rocks too, but they are not varnished yet – must get onto that this week!
My prompt for today was centred around whether I felt like I had specialised in any particular field during my life. That somehow turned into a poem about measuring adulthood by deed…
‘They’ say that if, by forty,
You haven’t made the grade
At being fully functional
(Seldom adulting, in spades)
Then: “pressure’s off, it’s over!
You can relax now – just ‘be’!
You have lasted as a kiddie
Those grown-ups feel jealousy!!”
But what if you have avenues
You still want to explore,
Just woke up late, feel panicked,
Are left limping for the door?
What if it isn’t that you aren’t
A fully fledged expert
At over-caring, worrying,
And slaying laundry dirt?
(Ok your cooking’s not that great,
Your house is pretty trashed,
Christmas seems to ambush you;
All your shoes are scraped and bashed…)
But you’ve a sense that destiny’s not ‘done’
It’s just biding its time,
Somehow this chaos that you’ve lived
Is fuelling the sublime;
That purpose and fulfilment may
Between the school bells lie,
A higher self just floating in
Forgiving, rainbowed, skies…?
[I am currently journaling (and writing poems) around prompts from The Year Of You: 365 Journal Writing Prompts For Creative Self Discovery by Hannah Braime – Kindle ASIN: B076Z6Y5L9]
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