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Have been awoken to some  poetry of late... and so I put this here .. from Mary Oliver WILD GEESE You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things. Wild Geese: Selected Poems  is a soul-stretching read in its entirety. Complement it with Oliver’s deeply endearing  Dog Songs , one of the  best boo...

 a mosaic seat at the craft cottage....  a mural from the side of the War Memorial Hall next door  it is nice to sit with a friend in such a pleasant place and visit and have coffee... Hope you have had a great week....May God Bless You in the coming one...

QUILT... oh hello Peter Rabbit, what are you doing there...you should have been in last week's post...or maybe next week's...Bridging the Gap are you? Well, come on then stand up nice and tall then... oops..did we lose him? ah, there you are...good boy! I do hope you like the big effort I went into making this such a Fun Post for you! And please be careful on that old antique...or is it antiquated quilt there. I don't suppose those materials are all straight out of dresses that she wore in the 60's and 70's do you. I hope not! Q is also for QUEENSLAND.... If you are not sure where Queensland is...it is in the top right bit of Australia there! You see they cut a bit out of the bottom left hand corner there for South Australia, not sure why...you don't think it was the surveyors fault , do you? And that nice straight border with New South Wales at the bottom, gets to be a bit wobbly there as it goes over the Great Dividing Range, and ends up on the coast in ...