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Stress!

What's wrong?

Stress!

Hands shaking, wobbly on my feet,

Feeling unsure of the people I meet

Everyone's a stranger, never a friend

standing alone, trying to blend.

Stomach tied in knots, unable to sleep

is that the wind or do the stairs creek?

Miserable at work, counting the minutes

tired, depressed, bored,

is there no limit?

Money is short,

Bills are high,

How on earth will I get by?

 

Far away from family,

detached from all around,

living all alone and feeling down.

 isolated, separated, too depressed.

Stress! 

How the hell did I get into this mess!

Mirrored Reflections

Where we need to be!

 

Is this cute?

Well, my hanging basket is now officially dead, all plants are dried and crispy but this little darling is alive and well! Just hanging out in the basket for his Mom to bring him a tasty bug to eat!

Baby Wren about 4 days old!

My Excuse for not watering my plants!

Every year I make myself a nice couple of hanging baskets; sometimes they look great and sometimes they wither but I usually after a few mishaps manage to find some drought resistant plants that can cope with my neglect.

This year nature gave me the perfect excuse not to water one of my hanging baskets - a Carolina Wren's nest! I have a courtyard at the back of the condo and apart from the Wren's it is really too small to attract birds. One day I saw the Wren's putting nesting material into my hanging basket. I opened my bird book and it said that they may build up to 20 decoy nests so I didn't really worry about it.

Last week, the plants were looking dead so I decided to water them, all of a sudden a very angry wren flew out of the nest and perched on the wall, scolding me most profusely.  Since then I have not watered that basket and today, I took a photo of the what I thought was the wren sitting in her nest with her little head popped up, you can just see her beak and her eyes! I am now looking more closely and I think it is two baby wrens!

 

Beautiful light

You are so beautiful;
a shining light emanates from your soul;
radiates to the heavens and embraces us all.
From your lips come gems of wisdom so deep;
from your eyes the truth of the secrets you keep.
your breath is like peace as it lulls me to sleep,
in your arms so gentle, so mild, so meek.

A magnet attracting, that bright shiny light;
Sparkling, glowing, a star that shines bright.
You dart like a moonbeam and catch you, I might
but you are so elusive and free from my sight.

I know when you're with me that everything's right
I wait and I wonder how strong is you might,
and why do you leave me whenever it's light?

Your skin is so silky and soft to my touch
my fingers awake and they want you so much.
an ember that glows; and flickers within;
the passion, the feeling, the light never dim.

Radiant beauty; surround me each day;
embrace me; protect me and help me to play,
up in the clouds, or here on the ground,
the soft silent sighing of peace all around.

I hope you like my words, I recently helped my daughter Claire Courchene with some song lyrics and she was pretty pleased with them.  Yesterday she went to the studio withe her business partner Ethan;  a singer and some other musicians and recorded the song - Stereographic Entertainment produced the song.  I was feeling really confident today so I spent some time writing this.