New Beginnings....

So with every day there is the chance for new beginnings, challenges and opportunities.

I know there are a few of you out there that think I'm as mad as a hatter but you tolerate and humour me, you let me rant on about plastic, waste, recycling, the joy of seedlings, the smell of a freshly dug carrot and the wonder of a new born goat, the healing powers of calendula and lavender, my crochet creations.........the list is endless.  I am happy for this to be so because in my own little way I hope that maybe some of my ramblings might be heard and maybe considered, but if not thats fine too because you simple let me ramble. You don't try to change me you simple accept my opinions and choices.  I would like to think I do the same for you, because we are all human and we all have the right to our own opinions, to make our own decisions and to live as we choose to live.

I saw this poem online recently and it just seemed appropriate.  


IF
If you can keep your heart open when all about you in darkness
Are closing theirs and blaming everyone else,
If you can trust your common sense when all have lost theirs,
But make allowance for their confusion too;
If you can work for the change and for the good, for the people and for nature - and not be tired by the waiting,
Or being surrounded by the lies, media lies, propaganda lies, personal lies, never believe the lies,
Or being bombarded by the hate, of race, culture, class or creed, and not give way to hating,
And yet neither preen with pride, nor talk too humbly wise:
If you can still dream—but not let your dreams die in life's endless diversions;
If you can think freely—but not let your thoughts drown in the days urgent deeds;
If you can recognise from afar the coming of Triumph and Disaster
And set your course calmly between their bright lure and their dark threat;
If you can acknowledge that the truths you have spoken
Will always be twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, to betray you - yet still you speak truth,
Or watch the causes you have given your life to, of human rights, civil rights, environmental rights - all broken by greed,
And patiently build them up again with love and with a light in your heart:
If you can talk with the people, listen to their hopes and their fears, yet keep your kindness ever near, your compassion share with good cheer;
Or walk beside the Mighty — but not loose sight of all that is right,
If you call none foe but see that all are friends - tho some lost in their pain
 seek to hurt you,
If all creatures and every people matter for you, but none to the cost of the other;
If you can dance in the Infinite joy of this moment
With your heart ever caring, sharing and shining, singing your song for the life of the world,
You are a true citizen of Earth and a brother to everything that’s in it,
And—which is more, my friend —you’ll be forever free.

c.Titus. L 2016
Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name.