Happiness

My Poem for the New Year

ONE HAPPINESS SCATTERS A THOUSAND SORROWS

Happiness is a true measure of life.

It is contagious and speaks volumes

Banishes dark imaginings,

Brightens skies and lifts the soul.

Life revolves around seconds of experience.

Be in control

Fill your eyes with  wonder and surprise.

Listen only to the sounds that 

Make  fear and disappointment  disappear.

Dismiss the things that hurt ; 

Words of hate, pain and sorrow,

Look toward tomorrow

Lift  heavy hearts, find good in all things,

No matter how little.

The world is full of  miracles.

We are, the miracle of life,

We have the power to change 

Attitudes and rituals

That keep us in chains. 

Change what can be changed. 

Control is in your hands.

See the beauty, see the love

And set it free. 

ValCook  2012  

14th January 2012

Finally got back into my  usual routine, walking using the bus and attending the gym. I am thinking of going swimming, once I get my head around the thought  and I am still on the bike. It took me a few weeks to get my mojo back, had to  finish the chocolates and the bits and bobs left over from Christmas,though I had to pace myself, thankfully the cupboard is  now bare and I am shopping for healthier food.

Today is my first born son’s birthday, he is a good son but I am not prepared to divulge his age as it will only reflect on me and I am reluctant to go there, my inner spirit tells me I am still a spring chicken.  Haha

January 6th I started a new post as Computer Mentor for a group at a local Residential Home. Its just two hours Friday afternoons, I still volunteer at the Library and will be moving to another site, as our’s will be closing soon. Due to the financial cuts five Libraries are to be closed down in the next two months, its  going to affect mainly pensioners and young families who regularly use the  local libraries and are not as mobile as others, it’s so wrong.

I spent the day watching all three  “ The Godfather”  Movies, back to back.   I had recorded them last year and was saving them for a marathon session . It’s years since I saw it last and I was equally delighted the second time around, it was well worth the  11 hours viewing.  I have quite a few classic movies lined up for this winter’s snow storms but up till now we have not had any.  But give it time, it sometimes snows on my birthday in February..

Breaking news today a recently built  cruise ship the Costa - Concordia has run aground today  in the Mediterranean its on its side 4,500 people on board and many are missing, people likened it to the Titanic disaster. I go cold when I think of it as I am not a  happy sailor. God bless them all.
My son was a Sailor in the Royal Navy for seven years and I felt quite ill sometimes thinking of him being at sea.