Hello all....I had no idea that there were so many lovely people out there who would take the time to read, let alone reply to my postings on the site, thank you so much. My mother was a wonderful person who also enjoyed Joni Mitchell but courtesy of me... She particularly liked "Both sides Now" and was in her own right a very brilliant writer and poet and artist and maddeningly batty too.... she introduced me to Haiku when I was 6 (1963!!!) and she won all sorts of prizes for them.
One of the prize winners ended up being published on cards for sale in shops. She wrote it when my father was in the far east and she had waited all day in my grandparents house, as he had written to say that he would be phoning her ... it was their anniversary and we, at that time, had no phone. She literally did not move from the chair by the phone all day. Eventually the call came in and it lasted a total of about 2 and a half minutes. AFter she put the phone down she walked, with the stiffest back I have ever seen in my life, out of the room, up the stairs and we heard her crying and crying. the Haiku she wrote was "your voice when we speak accross the pain of distance flowers in my heart" We know little of separation in this day of texts and e-mails and mobile phones and video links and instant communication. The expression of emotion has become some fast forward gallop to make the biggest statement, exceed past limits, erase the creases other previous loves have left on us and on the person fixed in the glazed eye of current adoration!. There seems to exist some certainty that "another one will come along if this one does not work out" so words of affection can be devalued in their overuse. In this day of e-dating and wholesale "have-it-all-and-more" serial relationships I should love to see the art of courtly love restored so that even texting could transcend the "get ur coat u've pulled" form of address and some degree of thought return to our heads and hearts. Oh I must stop being so whimsical but wouldn't it be nice if thought always preceeded words?...... Please note demise of hotmail address, it was getting very sulky about the limit of mails and so I have switched to the virgin one who seems to be much more friendly!! Enjoy your days all of you and thank you again for the wonderful mails. Oh! before I go may I also pass onto you the parking god prayer... It only works if you really believe it will. AS you approach the parking area you hope to park in you have to say...aloud.....No muttering now and you really really hve to believe in it..... Dear and gracious parking god As parking god there be Let me find a parking space where I want it to be....... :-) Lucy Hone
