Listen up! I want to call the ones with tears in their eyes,
fears in their inner recesses,
To those with laughter and smiles from ear to ear and...
the ones I've loved, love, and the ones I should love more,
to those of you I hurt,
helped, saved and cradled...
the ones who I stopped from doing the most final and dreadful of acts...
...I'm SO glad to still see you with us, oh so glad,
to my music buddies, to Friday hungry tummies, soccer friends...
so ridiculous, hilarious, paranoid, insane and annoying,
and the precious, hilarious, lovable and most highly respected...
fellow bloggers, and blog buddies...
my words hereafter are plain and very simple...
I want to drink with you, and tell you that you all have played a rôle in my world.
Thank you, ALL.

(I'm drinking ONE whisky, but I mean these words so sincerely, and truly. I'd never have written them otherwise....the sip of Mekhong just gave me the push to say it...at last.
I lay myself down, as human, with failings, with hopes, loves, sacrifices and ambitions,
cravings, longings, yearnings a plenty,
moods and blues, helter skelter again,
...going too far to fall short,
...I'm human, only, merely, simply...because tonight I truly WANT to be!!)

Colour: Caramel
Music: Mads Arp ft Julie Harrington: Slow it Down (Mathilda mix)
Reading: you

Part of you is genius while another is absurd,
part of me seeks perfection while the other is reserved
I give my unreserved attention,
to your absurd imperfections
-ingenuously we seek...
...in each other

Today started cold, with a beautiful sunrise illuminating the early morning dew, trickling off the snail-trail-marked greenhouse glass, and onto yesterday's freshly cut grass, still filling the crisp air.
As the sun touches my plants one by one, the autumn sun never seems in a hurry, it appears that Spiderman paid me a visit, with cobwebs abseiling across the entire garden and house from sycamore and limes, dark with the glare of horizontal sun rays...the autumn light is indeed fascinating.
It appears that everything is more alive now than in the manic growing days of spring, and heightened crops of summer...as September is a month where we ALL notice and expect change, which will touch us all, with varying certainty.

Last night I was lured by my summer purchase in Hamm, Germany...so I had some Mekhong Thai whisky with peanuts, and it burnt some happiness right through the very heart of me. Thank you Mekhong, thank you Thailand.
And some good news was forthcoming, Sainsbury's have started selling Candia milk...my childhood favourite...so there goes another secret~~~

This afternoon, I'll find a quiet spot, to draw, with pen and ink. It's been lacking of late as taking photos, teaching, and physiotherapy have ruled the roost regards time.
So, with that in mind, I'll try to finish off my sketches, some going back to last autumn in Japan, where I sketched in Chiba, Tokyo, and especially in Kyoto. Now I want to finish off the last remaining ones.
My good friends and I all sketched in our unique ways, added rhymes for our hidden sighs, and displayed our work with collected pride...if only because we did it all together, the three of us. My two friends storybook style is wonderful, and shows purity, and mine was added for politeness sake only...but a memory of tremendous value all the same.
My Shizuoka friend promised me a February picnic, in England...!!!

Colour: Red
Music: Stereophonics: Dakota
Reading: Japan's Underwater City