Stories
You Can’t Have My Cake – And Eat It Too .
Finally she’s digging her heels in. Putting herself first. Not dishing up more and more of herself to be swallowed up by those who want a piece of her. And the candle that were once the lighthouse to her fragile soul are all burnt out. Now she celebrates (alone again), licking her fingers in sweet delight.
Footnote: This ‘Ink’ arose from the question: “Why do we place the needs of others above our own?”(Originally from the handmade book, ‘Rock The Boat’ book. Handwriting by Mags. Reposted from 2012. She now appears in Clunk & Jam book, 2019.)
August 9, 2018 - Kindness
Kindness Matters .
“Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble – courage in your own.” Barbara Dinham’s Father. She writes … “The mature conscience of the postwar generation globally dropped do-gooding in favour of analysis and insight into social and political structures that maintain inequality and general injustice. Kindness did not fit into analysis. Being kind was for animals, children, the elderly, yourself even, and maybe the environment. Kindness was too banal for the big social issues. Kindness was for private, personal actions. Yet one of the major social movements of the second half of the 20th century fought fiercely for recognition that the personal is political. So is it time for a new kind of kindness?”
(Barbara Dinham, Director, Pesticide Action Network, UK. Pic and story from book ‘A Revolution In Kindness’ edited by the late Anita Roddick (Body Shop. Reposted from 2010).
Rose doesn’t give much away – but tells it like it is.
Rose is a great observer of reality. She has altering points of view about what she sees which she states clearly without any expectation of popularity, reply – or following. Rose’s preferred working and living environment is that of real and natural surrounds, beyond suburbia when possible or in her humble and slightly untidy home – with windows wide open. Long Live Rose. View previous Roses here.
(Wisdoms of Rose and Clunk & Jam 2019 books. Reposted from 2013).
Alice (from Wonderland) tells her Mad Hatter friend her Uncle told her to wish for 6 impossible things before breakfast. With this in her tiny pocket she slays the Jabberwocky and everyone lives happily ever after – and we may not, but let us vow not to be beaten by Jabberwockys and impossible things for that matter.
Boy wished for impossible things….
….adults grew up and stopped fighting.
Roads didn’t take their toll and the sky could breathe again.
Mother nature didn’t get so angry.
Homes were homes and goodnight’s were safe.
Morning brought back the good ol’ days.
He was invisible to the world and it to him – and tears were allowed to flow as freely as oil and concrete.
(Clunk & Jam book).
Rose was very curious about the origin of sadness .
Rose welcomes all forms of feeling with a particular interest in ones of the socially unacceptable kind. She has pioneered many expeditions into the realms of fear, sadness, anger, disillusionment and horrible muddled states of mind with quite profound results and a significant degree of personal resolve. Long Live Rose.
Footnote: We’re often not encouraged to feel what are often termed, ‘negative’ emotions – like anger and sadness. This Rose seems to be suggesting that ‘to feel is to be real’. Perhaps to be able to personally progress and move actually requires the acceptance and riding out all emotions. Viewing them as valuable modes of transport to a better places rather than weakness and flaws in our character?
(Wisdom of Rose and Clunk & Jam 2019 books. Reposted from 2013).
Rose wasn’t into saving water – she liked her bath too much.
Rose is of the view that taking care of herself is the best addition she could possibly make to the world beyond her own thought processes. For much of the time she lives her life in blissful oblivion, completely absorbed in simple off-the-planet personal pleasures of strange delight – and no financial gain. Long Live Rose.
Footnote: This Rose seems relatively free from an environmental and social conscience, which makes her very politically incorrect. She does have very green tendencies that offset her blissful oblivion.
(Wisdoms of Rose and Clunk & Jam, 2019 books. Reposted from 2013).
