Lyrical Sunday: Blue

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Blue
I wonder, as I sit here, and you sit, there,
If you have ever wished it were different?
If you ever dreamt of being you,
The you, you could have been
Had your blood been red not blue?

Would the last sixty years have been easier
Or would they have been as hard, as fun
As sad, as long, or just - different?
I wonder if you wish for a night down the pub,
Or a day off, just wandering down the high street,
To get a cuppa and maybe a new hat.

I wonder all this, and I wonder
What you are wondering as you look back.

And I wonder at what I will be thinking on my jubilee.

LJ2012

She loves blue :D

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Five Friday Favourites at Five.

Leading up to a long weekend! Have a great one!

• Baking for Bake the Blues Away - really lifted my mood and I had a great morning baking without a little helper. I'd post the photos but they look terrible!
  
  
• Samoan Language Week at Kindergarten. I think I learnt more than Monkey did. I especially loved that they made traditional food for the kids and Monkey tried "Samoan Sushi" which is really called Oka.
  

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• Having a skype conversation with Uncle R-S, Aunty Cheers, Uncle L-S and Nyamanyama and Gramps although I do wish we could all be in France with them.

  

  My in-laws backyard in the Dordogne region of France.

  
  
• Celebrating the Queen's Jubilee, I may not be a royalist but I have to respect a woman who has managed to avoid too much scandal whilst being in such a spotlight. I also think she seems like she might be a really lovely old lady when she's "off-duty".
  
• A letter to Ryan Gosling begging him to not, um, be, um, him.

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Lyrical Sunday Showcase and Prompt.

Thank you to Lien and Sarah for linking up this week. Lien shared an image of purposeful parenting and Sarah shared her joy at being a newly wed.

Join up again from Sunday. And if anyone has any great ideas for prompts please let me know :D

Prompt: Blue

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Easy ways to make a difference.

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This week I've been thinking about how the simple things are usually the ones that have the biggest impact. Here are the ones I'll be doing or attempting.

Baking the Blues Away - a Facebook movement to bake/buy a little something for someone who is struggling. It can be a good friend or a colleague or someone you see at kindy or a neighbour.

The Sisterhood's Love Bomb - Sophie Slim is organising a Love Bomb for five deserving mums. The smallest gesture is welcomed.

60 Selfless Ways to  Pay it Forward - Marc and Angel have wonderful ideas that are easy to implement.

Lyrical Sunday - Purpose.

Lacking Purpose.


Adrift, in a sea of circumstance, she sailed solo,
Alone, caught in the current, she could not see the shore.
Amidst the flotsam of frustration and fear, she huddled
Against the bitter wind and salt rain, jettisoning dreams
And hope, headed into the whirlpool of worry and woe.
Aimless, alone, caught in the narrowing noose of nothingness.
All ability and aptitude to adjust, to move mountains,
all her - all derelict,
Lost in the current.


© 2012 Latte Junkie

Lyrical Sunday Prompt.

Purpose

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Five Friday Favourite at Five

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1. Buying a new duvet inner... it's the simple things really.
   
2. Watching Monkey join in Jump Jam at the school visit this morning.
   
3. Making (and eating) pikelets as the sun breaks through the clouds.
   
   
   
   
4. Getting not one but two parcels FOR ME this week. Which included The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
   

   

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5. Listening to Monkey outline his plans to stop himself telling his friend what he chose for his birthday present. They were: ignore him until Saturday, run away from him, play with him but don't talk to him or try to remember that it's a secret and just don't talk about his birthday. He went with the latter.