Ok well seeing as you stopped by just thought you might like to know the last thing I learned.
Life is a rollercoaster Just gotta ride it
It ain’t easy to please everybody It ain’t easy just to be yourself
So I Decided This Is The Best Advice Available
“Don’t worry about a thing ‘Cause every little thing is gonna be alright”
Law off attraction I work for my blessings I’m on with the seven Those who know get the message
Thanks to Ronan Keating, Tim Feehan, Bob Marley & Asiah all of whom I have listened to recently and the words have hit bang 💥 bang 💥 bang 💥 remember my friends worrying is a futile waste of life at the end of time 🕰️ you will have worried away the years
Wow so much I am learning now daily, today was about letting stress slip away as was yesterday. The lyrics stood out as meaning something on my path in life and maybe 🤔 something resonates within you
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.
We meet once more, or are you new? I’m never sure who will stumble upon these words of mine. One thing I can add is all are welcome, pull up a crate and take a moment to allow these words to filter through, as if a group of us weary world travellers were gathered around an open fire. Enjoying each other’s tales of travel and lessons learnt from amazing folk.
I welcome majority of questions, as that is how people learn, but when asked why am I in a wheelchair, that’s ok, but to keep pushing for more info with
Why? Why? WHY?
I have already said mostly due to DV (domestic violence) and then the
Why did you stay with him?
Don’t you think I ask myself that over, and over. But until you have lived my life, walked in my shoes & tied the laces up I can’t and don’t want to keep repeating the same thing over and over. Hell if I could have escaped before I would have, life is never black and white there are the grey areas and off white places that are hard to explain. We are all human and make mistakes and my mistake cost me a large part of my life but I am still here.
So be careful questions can be healthy, just understand cut off signs. Have a little empathy for people and to other people don’t be so dam moronic with what you ask or how you ask it
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?
Welcome to my world, a life filled full of wonder & of awe, stopping the laughter, I look toward my wheelchair and whisper,let’s dispense with further lies.
⬆️to find more of my poetry , granted website in dire need of an upgrade, which is on a list of must dos, somewhere
I am passionate about words, yes even the bad ones (swear and slang). Words are an expression of how we feel. Maybe a person doesn’t use words the way you do, fine, there could be many reasons, from the type of schooling received to area they live, people they mix with. So many factors involved around speech and language, please don’t confuse those two previous factors with actual WORDS.
Words are fascinating and I don’t think any should be banned, there is a rich history behind the words we speak, and shockingly some of the words we classify as awful swear words originated as medical terminology such as it was. I would never ban a word because that means we lose part of our heritage….
Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense
Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets
Gadzooks: mild oath
Whippersnapper: a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident
Chicken-headed. Ignorant, foolish
Nefarious: Wicked, villainous, despicable.
Just an example of some wonderful words that have or are slowly disappearing from the English Language. People think should, could, would, why and yeah, plus hundreds of slang words should disappear, I don’t agree, words are like pearls the more you learn the more you want to learn. Like Pearls of Wisdom.
I am even pro swear words for the simple reason the history that they carry, some traceable to Egyptian and Sanskrit so thousands of years. Don’t worry I won’t start swearing today , yes I promise.🤞🏻.
People have been swearing since language evolved. This has been checked with those awful things called statistics with evidence suggesting 58% of the population swears “sometimes” or “often” and less than 10% of the population report “never” or “rarely” swearing.
Wow now that’s a good short word so rather than ban a word why not learn a word a day that will give you appreciation for this wonderful world and our beautiful language whatever language that may be 😀
This is from Dictionary.com
WORD OF THE DAY KISMET
kiz-met,
noun
fate; destiny. (Meaning)
First recorded in 1840–50.
Comes from Turkish ultimately from Arabic qisma, qismat-, meaning “division, portion, lot, fate.”
Although a term from Islam, kismet is popularly used to refer to something that one believes was meant to be or the reason why such a thing happened.
EXAMPLES OF KISMET
The unexpected encounter with an old friend at the airport felt like kismet.
As he stood on the stage, delivering his award-winning speech, he couldn’t help but feel that kismet had guided him to this moment.
Well at this point if you have read all this well done. 👏. I hope you understand where my passion is coming from
Words,
Come so easy to me.
I think you understand,
Yes you see.
Expression of words,
Is an art we must keep.
Don’t shut your eyes,
Yes I see ignorance creep..
Kim-Louise 2024
What do I mean – if we don’t learn we can plead we didn’t know, which is pleading ignorance, so don’t lose the elusive words learn a new word a day.
Sorry daily prompt I did the opposite of what you asked
Well here we are again, enjoying the last few days of February, waiting to see how March bursts upon us, will it be the proverbial in like a lion 🦁 out like a lamb 🐑or the other way round (English saying thought to be around 17th C )(I hasten to add there are many claims to saying I just picked on the one below)
Who first said: “March comes in like a lion”?
“March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb” is an English proverb of unknown origin. It is first alluded to in print in A Wife for a Month, written in 1624 by John Fletcher (1579-1625),
Sorry just went a little off topic then, but that’s the kind of message I would send to myself. Ok here goes nudge me if I start to drift a little
Hey Young Me , it’s you older a little wiser and yes a lot bigger. I know, I look like Granny, but is that such a bad thing she was a beautiful soul, well, still is to you, cherish her and the few loved ones we have, plus you will never make her love you so don’t lose sleep or shed tears over that person 🆗. Actually please don’t chase love Ever.
I have to tell you reach out and grasp any learning you can, I know college is unavailable at the moment, but as soon as you have money spare, learn. What about? Everything, anything, take every opportunity you can and be happy don’t allow anyone to dim your light.💡. You are clever, and pretty and those awful things that happened were not your fault. Don’t waste your life looking for love it will find you and don’t let anyone ever hurt you again. Think if I made it without this advice think how high you can fly knowing this.
Allow no one to make you cry in pain or shameyou don’t deserve that life. Please take this final advice. With all my heart.
So there you have it my friend the advice sent back to my teenage self, if only it was possible, but we are here to learn . No one ever said life was easy
Keep smiling 😊
Kim-Louise
All the things I wish I had thought of saying, but feel.
Do you have a minute or two just so that we can chat?
So gracious of you, pull up that crate and let’s have a look at this writing prompt. Now today they are asking what bores me, well I want to laugh and then chuckle, because when is there time to be bored?
From the moment I open my eyes till the time I fall asleep, there is no time for boredom in my world.
This morning for instance I was woken by the rhythm of the pouring rain. I listened for a while before getting up thinking how just possibly in a few short months the country could be calling drought, all that water power wasted, my mind boggled.
I can watch tv for an hour, then read a book for longer, knit, sew, write, do some craft work. All the while I use crutches and wheelchair and can’t get out and about so much now, I can never honestly sayI’m bored . I take photos, I love using the PC and playing games on my phone . When I am able I like to cook.
How can I be bored with so much to do, so many things to see and wow the things I still need to learn. Every day I try to learn something new, because life is short, and time is precious…I am never bored .
Slightly 😡 annoyed
Tired 🥱
Angry 😤
Sad 😞 or happy 😆,
laughing 😝
But Never ever BORED, boredom is for those that lack imagination, drive and a sense of humour..
How can she say that? Yes you sir in the back there, it’s like this, if you find the company you are in boring, maybe it’s not them it’s you who are the boring one. Did you ever think of it that way? No? Well try people watching in the group and have some fun with who will speak next why is she always tugging her ear. Become an expert on human interaction. Way too many ways to enjoy life.
Can I just say the title they don’t have to be shiny because that might be strange almost alien 👽 like, so stick to what is written BeLoW.
Let’s get straight into it today, the prompt that is. Who are my favourite people to be around? Simple, happy 😃, optimistic, people with enough intelligence to hold a conversation, people that have empathy and are kind, but have that witty spark ⚡️. People who suddenly burst into a one line of a song because maybe a word has reminded them of the song 🎶 or a colour or anything. The sort of people who you wouldn’t put together as a group, but that’s the best group, age, colour, creed nor gender matter when you have happiness in your heart you just radiate sunshine that spreads to everyone around you
My tagline is Kim-Louise, Spreading Smiles. I have used that for many years, partly because happy people make better choices in life. So smile and share some of that glow
I think I have been writing long enough to go from calling you a reader to a friend, after all we share our thoughts and lives with each other.
I read the prompt several times and decided that by the use of the word best and gift puts a huge difference on the answer. I was going to answer along the lines of greatest gift but that would have changed the prompt completely. So that is one to bore you another day 🤭.
Best” is the more general term; it's the highest degree of anything positive. “Greatest” is more apt when we want to indicate size, distinction or renown. “Greatest” may be an overstatement when applied to everyday things.22 Mar 2016
My Best Gift Ever was when I was about 7 or 8 looking back I can still feel the magic in the air. It was Christmas Eve and I found a letter off Santa in my sack. Your main present is in the pantry ho ho ho. Merry Christmas love Santa x
I rushed out to the pantry there was this bike with a bell 🛎️ for me, my first 🚲 bicycle . Now I can tell you it was an old third bike that my step dad had lovingly cleaned and polished that old bike and sprinkled it with care. Nothing in life has made me as happy as this gift did. It wasn’t because we couldn’t afford new, it was because he knew this bike would be scraped and marked. Around the farm it would be filthy. He seemed to know it was part of a bigger plan ,
All these yrs later approaching 50 to be honest I think about that gift, it really was the Best Gift I have ever received, given to me by the Greatest Gift I was lucky enough to have in my life My Step Father. See that’s the difference between Best and Greatest…….
At times in the past I feel my approach to budgeting has been like many countries around the world. I start with an income, expect that income to then stretch beyond any realistic total. When the figures don’t add up blame the world economy and the ozone layer.
Now I have took my head out the sand and actually written out my income (when I found it), outgoings (I must be paying for me and the entire street) cancelled a few non essential items that were frivolous (ok I have re-added food).
I then took A (income) minus B (outgoings) ‘
Result = negative equity
Ok then I shave more of the outgoings and wow on paper it balances.
Then I try to live for the month according to the number that is the BUDGET.
So far I have been trying to stay within the boundaries of the page this month. But it has not been easy, I don’t think there has ever been a time that I have not worried about money and bills.
Now I am older I find myself in the horrible situation of being disabled and unable to work, so my only money is benefits. This means that children are now adults, and I really do have to live within those numbers on that page. No holidays, well there hasn’t been for a long time , trying to redecorate my home on a shoestring, cause the Budget dictates so. Having to get a gardener in not a luxury but a necessity, eats into my budget.
I have to say I detest the word BUDGET .
I am going to claim I run my home like the UK parliament runs the UK, in deficit
I need lessons from British Gas as the reports state British Gas has announced its profits for 2023 increased 10-fold to £750m see they can budget, hey some of that is my money.
Anyway don’t do as I do stick to whatever works for you and if you haven’t found it yet, search the internet for a plethora of ideas
Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you?
Dearest Readers
I am hoping you are all well, and looking forward to whatever season is next upon us.
Now to the prompt that has brought me here today, am I patriotic?
To be honest I always associate that word more with the USA 🇺🇸 than the UK 🇬🇧. I guess that’s because of History taught in schools, I was taught that the American patriots and the British loyalists had issue, which is really rather daft because all the patriots wanted was freedom from the rule of the British to live under their new rules in a new world, the Americas.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”– Martin Luther King Jr
Patriotic – Myself I love my country, but I see its faults. I’m not a nationalist, which is technically the equivalent of patriotic in British terms if we are going to be correct. Maybe I am a loyalist, or a mixture of both.
The UK was once a glorious nation proudly flying the red, white & blue, the British Commonwealth, Our Queen, the NHS and school system was all something to be so proud of , I know this to be true as I grew up in this time, when we had our ups and downs but knew how to stick together to rally through.
Then the world started to unravel and doors once closed were flung open wide, the UK being so stuck up thought it’s ok we will survive. But the clouds got darker as it rained with people from other EU states and then the boat people looking to the UK as a free door mat.
I’m not criticising those that fled to Britain’s front doors in droves, they had a need for shelter and the UK well it just handed homes,money, NHS, all for free. We started failing, falling to our knees. The country is dam well sinking, I truthfully cannot say my heart is behind the UK in its policies and crime has increased everywhere. Our NHS is not the same and will disappear into a more corporate look and become private run.
My loyalties are what hold my heart. I’m loyal to my family, to honesty and I have deep regard for our Royal Family. Miss our Queen Elizabeth I I who was an icon in this modern world.
Our Late Queen Elizabeth II
In all seriousness I have pride in many aspects of my life in the UK and I know it’s a tough time for majority of us. Hold tight and have faith remember United We Stand, Divided We Fall
I’m just nostalgic for the way it was and how we used to live those were good times
So long winded but I got there in the end
I am sure of one thing I am Me.
Thank you if you got this far
Namaste
Kim-Louise
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
United We Stand, Divided We Fall is a phrase that was first documented in historical use in 1769 when John Dickinson used it in the Revolutionary War song “The Liberty Song
Bucket of Smiles 