Good Morning ALL! How are you this morning? We are doing well. I am going to the office today but my neighbor and friend Sonja will come and check in on Mr. Alvin during the day. I am eternally grateful to have such great friends and neighbors.
I want to share a poem with you that I wrote as I started Grade 12 in the fall of 1974. Wow, that seems like an eternity ago. It was 48 years ago. YIKES. I am getting on in years, lol.
One FALL
To Windthorst I came late in the fall,
With great expectations – or so I recall.
I looked forward to seeing new faces in class,
And taking the subjects I knew I should pass.
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My impressions are fixed now, it currently seems,
That totally false was each of these dreams.
With all the boys, I’d thought it’d be heaven,
But it hasn’t work out: so back to Glenavon.
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The girls are prettier than I’d thought they would be;
Though none but a fool would prefer them to me!
(My vanity comes from the pressures of rhyme –
You know that I’m modest all of the time)!
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My rhyme is near finished, my brain power low,
My thoughts have diminished, and so I shall go.
Life, bring excitement! Life, bring romance!
Life, bring me something! Windthorst last chance!
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Written as I entered Grade Twelve in Windthorst, Saskatchewan. Grandma sold the farm in the summer/fall of 1974 and we moved to the village of Windthorst.
Carol Mills in the year of 1974
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I found something else that I wrote for the school paper that same year.
Looks at our mascot!
He is depressed.
‘Cause we’ve just had exams and
Are not at our best.
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Life bring excitement
Life brings change
Life brings cold and arthritic pain.
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Well I can see that I was not in the most positive of states and that I was into boys.
Things have changed over the years, I am more positive and boys well men, I can take them or leave them. So much to do. Relationships!
Have a wonderful Friday.
Continuing to live this life with kindness, respect, compassion, patience, love, laughter, understanding, gratitude, focus, possibilities and coffee.
Always, Carol & Alvin
PS: to add some of my dearest girl friends are those I met in High School and my best friend of all time, I have know since we were toddler days. That is a long time. Shout out to Deanna and Carolyn.
My New Life @ 51 