The previous two posts have been saved as drafts for some time till today. I put them up briefly when I wrote them but took them down quickly afterwards, waking up not happy about them. In fact I've been suffering a complete lack of confidence for some weeks. I think we all suffer from loss off self confidence at different times. In my case lately there's probably more than one reason and they are too personal for this forum.
But I'm back. My friend 'Blossom' helped snap me out of it with a thank you card she sent me a couple of days ago. I visited her back in April and planted a few salvias in her back garden. Her birthday was earlier this month and I was late sending a card and the customary quick pick. I also printed out some months of this blog and sent it with the card, as she likes to read my news and thoughts but doesn't have a computer. A few days after her birthday and obviously before she received my mail, her card came in the usual graceful handwriting thanking me for the salvias which she says are thriving and make her think of me every time she goes out. Then she wrote, "Where's my blog, Mr. Carey".
A small thing to most, but to me at that point it was just the tonic to restore some confidence in my writing efforts. I'm so happy to bring 'Bloss' a little pleasure. She's a long standing friend who recently had a second operation for bowel cancer. She lives by herself and has done it hard for nearly two decades now.
I add a piece of local news. The President of the Emerald Museum, Hamish Russell, has resigned as of yesterday's meeting. The committee will possibly go into voluntary (or involuntary) recess while the council "assists" with some solution. I mention this on the off chance committeeman KT who's in London for two months happens to check my blog. He may be looking for some local news. I would post in detail about the EMNHP and it's tribulations over the last couple of years but it would take an application I fear I can't manage now.
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