The purpose of my recent trip to France was to visit Nantes where I painted a group of actors as they rehearsed for a production (more about that in my next blog) However, my good friends Bonnie an…

Source: My trip to France – beginning in Port-En-Bessin

All of Eastern Britain will be having heavy rhymes tomorrow and the next day.
The West  Wind will bring  refrains in its train.
Free verse is due to arrive in the afternoon in London çausing  consternation
Forms of poems will be ghosting across the City but are not for sale.
Cursing and swearing  insects are set to invade poets’ brains  on Friday bringing relief from good behaviour with no guilt.Count  me out.
Seven plagues are said to be on the way but so far they have only reached Calais.And do we care?
British rain will fall on Thursday. Foreigners will not get wet until  their reign  arrives
and /or they are turned out after  the Referpendulum.
Are you bored enough? I am

Biblical Proverbs

• 1 A good name is better than precious ointment.
• 2. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
• 3. A just man falls seven times, and rises up again.
• 4. A prudent wife is from the Lord.
• 5. A soft answer turns away wrath.
• 6. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
• 7. As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
• 8. Before honor is humility.
• 9. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
• 10. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

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 Patience can break through iron doors.

. Tell the truth and run.

 Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

•  The eyes see everything but themselves.
• The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door.
• . There is little use building a fence around the garden to keep out the rabbits.
•  What is impossible to change is best to forget.
•  When the big bells ring, the little bells are not heard.
• . Where there are no laws, they can’t be broken.

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W. Beran Wolfe: “A serene fortitude in the face of disappointment and chagrin should be our goal. If you have evaded all unhappiness in life your happiness is place in unstable equilibrium by the constant dread that some unavoidable disappointment is just around the corner. If you have faced pain and disappointment, you not only value your happiness more highly, but you are prepared for unpredictable exigencies. Just as we can immunize ourselves against certain bodily diseases by stimulating our reserves to overactivity by taking graduated doses of toxin into our bodies, so we can immunize ourselves against adversity by meeting and facing the unavoidable chagrins of life, as they occur. There may be happy human vegetables who have succeeded in avoiding unhappiness and pain, but they cannot call themselves men.”

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From   time and place  and  season I am  lost,

Disorientated ,missing  tracks well worn

Do not suppose I’m unaware of cost

Nor label me with epithets of scorn

For usual paths lead to the  usual place

The safest way to live and perhaps to die

But wandering through the woods  I find new space

and in  wild  grasses  with the fox I lie.

Through  distant trees, i see a way to go

as narrow as a slit in pallid stone

This is my destined way, I seem to know

And courage rises even as I moan.

Remember when we’re lost ,we  may then find

Another way,a place,another mind