A nudge.

Its been a very busy period. I've done lots of weddings, funerals and a christening.....plus the weather has been dire!  All the small bedding plants have been shunted in and out of the porch on a regular basis. They even brought with them some visitors!  I found the ants setting up a new home in the base of the lemon tree!

All this manic activity has left its toll....so the brief interlude on Saturday was wonderful......we met an old friend and his new partner and had a thoroughly enjoyable lunch.....

I was touched to get an email from them   the following day which contains a poem I've never seen before...It really is very appropriate for how I was feeling yesterday.  The person who sent it called it a nudge...which it is....so for all those of you who need a nudge  this is it!

Love after Love

The time will come

When, with elation

You will greet yourself arriving

At your own door, in your own mirror 

And each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

To itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

The photographs, the desperate notes,

Peel your own image from the mirror. 

Sit. Feast on your life.

By Derek Walcott