How often does it happen that an idea crops up when you're busy with something else? It might be a solution to a problem that's been on your mind or you suddenly remember where those notes/seeds/recipes are when you're up to your elbows in compost/soapy water/shopping...well my entire writing mind seems to have fetched up after a Pluto/Mercury transit feeling a bit like something resembling a landfill site. All the things I used to write about and the way I wrote them now seem tired bland,pedantic and not even recyclable...what's to be done? Because here and there in the mess, are little glimmers, sudden phrases that snag the heart...
So let's do it like this...let's deceive ourselves a little and imagine that this is a gratitude blog...you know the sort of thing - it's an exercise, a commitment to finding something to be grateful for every day - how hard can that be? Then maybe one or two of those glimmers might slip in and snag our hearts...
Today the wind and rain of the past weeks - it seems like months, has abated so I'm grateful for a quiet night's sleep without shrieking and roaring with random bumps, crashes and hailstones. I'm grateful that in spite of much flickering, our power stayed on because we share power lines with the local hospital and unlike last year when we came within a whisker of a wet carpet, the drains have been cleared and the waters are so far contained. I'm grateful to the man rocking around on a cherry- picker in a force eight gale on Saturday night getting the street lights back on - in fact to everyone who went out in that terrible weather so that we didn't have to.
I've set up my heated propagator in the upstairs window today with sweetpeas and antirrhinums and was really grateful for hot water to thaw my frozen hands after mixing seed compost..
Now I'm off to finish cleaning some beeswax to make candles - plenty to be grateful for there - especially the glorious rich honey smell of melted wax...
Great idea and good luck with it. <3
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