OUD en NIEUW!!

2015 - A New Beginning.......

Truth be told, I am looking forward to the new year with undiluted pleasure.  There are so many possibilities.  New Adventures.

To my most treasured friends, I want them to hear the words of an EE Cummings poem;

I carry your heart with me,
I carry it in my heart.
I am never without it,
anywhere I go, you go, my dear.
and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling.
I fear not fate,
for you are my fate, my sweet.
I want no world,
for beautiful, you are my world, my true.
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows,
Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud,
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life,
which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide,
and this is the wonder that keeps the stars apart,
I carry your heart,
I carry it in my heart.

I am made the better by the company I keep.  I am made more courageous and noble.  What more do I need to face the coming year?

THAT ONCE THERE WAS...

Right, so there never was a Camelot.  It just suits the old geezer to wish it so.  And to remember.

Just enjoy, and think back on all of the tales you remember...

GIVING WORDS TO THOUGHT

Tell true.  Do you ever wonder if what you say to folks is remembered?  I do.

Truth be told, am gobsmacked when it is.  Not the little silly stuff, but the really important things that are said to folks cared about.  The things that you tell that define who you are as a person.

I guess I have been lucky or am better at picking me friends than thought.  Came to give a think on this at breakfast the other day.  Two lovely people I like very much took me out for a cook up.  During the meal they told of how they remembered things told to them when first met and how it had helped them hang on until things improved.

Not only did the meal leave me in a good mood, the company made me feel good all day long.  Felt as if I had picked two new friends well.  It was a two way conversation, we all three heard what the other had to say.  Took the time to listen and remember the important stuff.

Mind, I seem to have a way with folks.......  You laugh.  True, there be some that do not take to the old geezer but I do make an impression...

HOMOMONUMENT

One of the most moving moments in life was to visit this monument in Amsterdam.  The only place I know of where the memory of the dead homosexuals is remembered.

Over the years, I have asked loads of folks known, if they visited this monument while they were in Amsterdam.  They could tell of all of the 'gay' spots visited while there but not about this.  I always thought it was a bit odd, given that many were rabid gay activist.

MEMORIAL DAY 2012

Who we are, what we are, what we hope to be, is all owed to the few who gave their all to keep us free.  To allow this country to grow.

Their sacrifice allowed the country to 'be a more perfect union'.

The old geezer has mates who died in war.  Mostly from Vietnam.  They were so very young.  I will remember Dan and Ski this weekend.