Today I was listening to chatter about a reunion which a new acquaintance had attended last week - a group of old friends who had not all been together for 30 years. She described one gentleman; "Well, he used to be rather eccentric," and when I asked if he had mellowed in the intervening years she said, "Not really - I suppose we weren't terribly surprised." And that's the truth of it, isn't it?
We bob along in the waters of life through all manner of different landscapes. And where you are can be terribly jolly, or sometimes rather difficult, but you learn that whichever way it is, it generally passes. And in the ever changing vista before you, the one thing that remains pretty much constant is you.
Did I always know this? Yes, I think so, on some level at least. As I watch my children leave our family vessel and begin to journey under their own steam, my wish for them is that when they look at themselves in the mirror, that they know they are decent people, that they behaved with integrity and for them never to feel shame in who they are.
And all of the rest of it is pretty much icing on the cake.
It's been a while. But it is lovely to be back.
Well this is strange. I have been have been tinkering with my blog all morning, reading old stuff and thinking how life has changed but stayed the same. I pulled up my old blog roll and saw that you have a new post and are thinking similar thoughts. Instagram is beginning to bore me, is it time to resurrect blogging?
Posted by: Sue Scott | 27 June 2018 at 14:48
So lovely to see you! Everything you say is very true, though it's taken me a while to accept (and that acceptance depends on the day). Would love to see you properly for a catch up. K xx
Posted by: Kristina | 27 June 2018 at 16:17
Lovely to see you back... and lovely to see Kristina's name pop up in the comments too. It's been a while, although somehow I don't seem to have left the blogging habit.
Posted by: Gina | 28 June 2018 at 09:27
A welcome return!
Posted by: Anne | 29 June 2018 at 16:25
What a marvellous surprise - welcome back!
I am way behind in blog reading since I have been taken up with Mrs Gaskell and her writing since late May. I am trying to catch up now though.
Posted by: Toffeeapple | 08 July 2018 at 18:43