“Now I walk in beauty,
Beauty is before me,
Beauty is behind me,
​Above and below me.”
https://youtu.be/BtyYkmEQ1Jo?si=xNd5Dgz4ugtBPGiG
I have been beset by a foment of blessings, wonder, sadness, humility, gratitude, amazement, joy, uncertainty and my toes have suddenly decided to be arthritic! 🤣
So I might be hobbling in beauty sooner than I would like!

But all in all, confusing though that seething mélange may seem, life remains a thing of wonder and beauty to me.
I pinch myself.
I have too many words and too few that are in any way adequate.
Nonetheless to those who love this funny, often off-beat old gal, I thank you.
Let’s see what happens next……
Love to all and have a glorious week enjoying this and that; all things of beauty, little and large.
Kxx

Well I don’t know about you, but there have been times in my life when fear has gripped me.
This is such a time.
A big scary thing tomorrow, in the coming weeks and the unknown quantity of 2024.
Fear can be foisted upon us of course, but in this case I’m just making a change; it’s a conscious decision. But really it had its roots a couple of years ago when "something" came upon me.
I was napping on the couch (rare) when suddenly, “bang” - this thing made itself known loud and clear.
It’s happened a few times in my life and each time my reaction was “oh no, no,no, please go away.”
But that certainty was there to make a change and once felt, there was no getting away from it.
So there you have it lovelies.
Susan Jeffers’ book said it in the title. That’s one of those books that’s a quick read, you know, glancing at the cover is all you need to do.
Not sure how I will go swapping something I’ve done all my life for something which is completely unknown territory. And yet, it seems, I am compelled to move forward with it.

You can wish me luck. I might need it!
Love to all and have a brilliant week.
Kxx
​PS - I will still be teaching from the Vestry at Wesley and running my beloved Performance Skills Classes

Ah simplicity!
I confess I am far from simple according to that list, although I am reading a simple book at the moment. ✅

Is it possible to embrace simplicity when there’s creativity knocking around a person?
Certainly these days the tech involved with creativity ramps up complication at every turn like a kitten with a ball of wool.

With SOS finishing up next week I am turning a corner I guess, so we’ll see how that goes in the simplicity stakes. (Friends rolling their eyes and having a laugh at my expense!🤣)
Have a lovely week my lovelies. Apply the KISS rule of thumb. I will if you will!
​Love to all. Kxx

Indeed, it’s difficult to deny, but there it is and here we are in a place where, once again, the poor and the powerless near and far, are at the bottom of the heap.
But let me do a Stacey share with you to make you smile.
He was conducting a fiendishly difficult score for a left of centre opera company.
The composer had written something in 17/16 or thereabouts, with an ornament mid-bar and Stace was in the middle of explaining it to the ensemble when the composer came into the rehearsal.
He drew her to one side to ask her for assistance with it and she said, “oh don’t get hung up on the beats! It’s just the general effect I’m after.”
Have a lovely week perfecting the general effect of your days.
​Love to all. Kxx

Good morning my lovely friends.
Excuse the radio silence for a while…..
I am with like-minds on my FB page so my guess is that most here are all a bit betwixt, between, bothered and bewildered!
If nothing else I hope that jumble of metaphor and Rodgers & Hart made you smile!
I missed “bewitched” in there some may have noticed.
Didn’t quite fit somehow and yet maybe that’s the very point of my MMMs.
You know, add a little charm and joy into the mix to give folks a lift as they face the week.
Love Rilke on this topic and the cute meme.
“To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world’s full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.”
So there you go my lovelies. Doing my best, for it is all we can do sometimes.
Step out and seek out a little song as you go.
​My love to you all, Kxx