Thursday, 18 August 2011

"Laughter is the medicine of life....life is too short to wear tight shoes"



The amber light of the half night embraced her velvet coat. Through African mist on scented ‘yesterdays and tomorrows’ her tales carried across the open air. A lynx and crested crane, true companions came to be. Her constant feathered friend would listen attentively though the night. Summer migration had brought him home to the southern hemisphere, now amidst fireflies and glowworms, crickets and honeybees, he listened with delight to the stories by the lynx, who had been previously engrossed in Yeats…


















‘See how the sacred old flamingoes come,
Painting with shadow all the marble steps
Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perches
Within the temple, devious walking, made
To wander by their melancholy minds.
Yon tall one eyes my supper; swiftly chase him
Far, far away. I named him after you.
He is a famous fisher; hour by hour
He ruffles with his bill the minnowed streams.
Ah! There he snaps my rice. I told you so.
Now cuff him off. He’s off! A kiss for you,
Because you saved my rice. Have you no thanks?
                                      ~


















Far away in hospital corridors dark, the constant drip of acid treatment scorched through the course of my veins. Bleeps of monitors, immobility, feverish sweats, blinding ice-pick headaches, needles, cool relief of the floor, through the MRI tunnel, a mindless voice announces “plotting with enhancement” iodine burnt within upon waves of nausea, the jarring elevator fired pains through every nerve, legs crushed through the mattress,  muscle tearing spasms. Blindness. Confusion. Limbs void of all feeling, suddenly just a mind floating away from all physical sensation. Breakaway point, welcome to the place of pain and colours where purple is orange, nurses are magenta, surgeons painted green and white is noise…the bitter taste in your mouth becomes a sound that you have not ever heard. All sensations a blur of being one in madness of agony. Corticosteroids, Interferon, pethidine, morphine, tramil, benzodiazepams…cardiac catheterization, femoral artery pressure…stop the bleeding! End the pain! Stop everything!


                                
At home the lynx, keen eyed and curious had been staring at the animated pictures on the screen close by. Not too convinced by amateur photography, she had in her wisdom begun absorbing what was written in between. With the next glance of anticipation from the crane outside, she continued her story, with a wink of her eye and a flick of her tail, she read the posts on the social network page;


















Friends had updated : -


" had a dream that someone switched out my computer keyboard at work, and I was really upset about it. LOL what's wrong with me that I'm having dreams like that?!? Good morning all... Saturday Morning Train is calling all aboard... see you ate 6am...
Oh my word! I'm standing outside at 4:30am like a crazy person! No meteor shower and no apace station sighting for me.
She has to go to a pack of dogs with a lady who has trained dogs for 21 years. Her behaviour is getting worse, and she bit/attacked 2 people. I know, hard to imagine. And after her resocialization, she should stay with people outside of the city. Herd some sheep. She doesn't like the city. It's too stressy for her. Blegh. My babyyyyyyj.
What do all people do when it is nearly 2AM and you cannot sleep?..
The wild combination of Mars with transformative Uranus and Pluto is likely to take us to unfamiliar places. Retreating to more familiar emotional and physical territory is, as mentioned above,, a natural response with the warrior planet...
All men and women are connected by an energy which many people call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated.
Ok there is the shop I go to buy my wine and there is a guy who gets in my nerves so today he asked where my husband was ? ( I had forgot I had lied to him that I was married). Lol so I started cursing him in Swahili ( mjinga huyu chukua pesa sina mda mchafu) means hey fool take the money I don't have the dirty time. Guess what the guy is an Indian born in East Africa he speaks Swahili and told me ok I don't drink I don't smoke but I love women!!! in Swahili
I did ask the man to remove it but then he said, with the rope there it is the only way that they could handle the cows...
The feeling of being a stranger in a strange land vanished, and great joy manifests. One begins to feel consciously to be on the way home in a spiritual sense, no longer flailing in the dark
One translation from the Latin takes this saying to mean 'Launch Forth into the Deep'. This means that you should be forceful in your persuits and rise to the important challenges which lie ahead of you. The man who 'launches forth into the deep' escapes from the smallness and narrowness of life; he thinks in a big way about life.
Yohimbe, an herb used in African marriage ceremonies and included even in testosterone supplements, will give you good wood, no problem. Viagra is extremely dangerous mixed with other drugs, which is how I've seen it taken, primarily--everyone I ever met who took it, usually used it to be able to get wood while tripping on who knows what
Do you suffer from frequent diarrhea or constipation? It may be IBS
I just got pulled over..seriously bout shit my pants ! Hahah
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart...
Is feeling very loving,and kind right now. I better end the night on that note (and go to bed) if I stay awake any longer I am sure one of my evil personalities will take over... so goodnight
So what does your inner bitch tell you? You're not worth it? You're too fat, too old, not lovable... if you're feeling defeated choice new words and emotions... people are sick because of what we say to ourselves and the body responds in anarchy and the spirit screams for love... do yourself a favor and slay your super bitch and reclaim the truth of who you are
'Life's too short to wear tight shoes.' - Grandma Ros
Enjoy wearing flip flops, or better yet, going barefoot today! "



"Laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a

pretty good grasp of life

Laughter is the medicine of life"


1 comment:

  1. O dear, lately I have let life get me a bit down...I am inspired by your words and photos and beauty, insight, hope, trust, and never "going gently into that good night"...Mother Nature should never be compromised, for in the end she will triumph over all...seeing these cats through your eyes lets me know there is hope for every wild thing left on the planet! Thank you!

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