square pegs and round holes

A Child Learns What He Lives

If a child lives with criticism
He learns to condemn
If a child lives with hostility
He learns to fight
If a child lives with ridicule
He learns to be shy
If a child lives with shame
He learns to feel guilt
BUT
If a child lives with tolerance
He learns to be patient
If a child lives with encouragement
He learns confidence
If a child lives with fairness
He learns justice
If a child lives with security
He learns to have faith
If a child lives with approval
He learns to like himself
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship
He learns to find love in the world

I so love that piece, it makes so much sense.

but why is it that 'they' [the powers that be] insist on making square pegs fit into round holes? particularly i am talking about children, children who don't fit in within the 'normal' [hate that word] parameters of life but are often highly intelligent.

within a school a child has to fit into distinct learning circles, and if they don't their sharp edges will be worn away, those sharp edges which are the key to their intelligence.

instead 'they' label the child and instead of helping them to learn 'they' take away any confidence the child had left. and we all know that peeling labels off is a tricky business which can leave behind a very nasty residue.

this is not finished , lunch break!

... oops again, that was a very long lunch break, almost 20 hours! may as well leave it there as it is technically another day, off to think of something new to write about!

white rabbits

ok, it's after 12 noon but i didn't wake up early so i should be forgiven!

where are the thoughts?

now where did i put those thoughts? you know, the ones that were clambering to get out of my head and into a blog last night just before i went to sleep. they seem to have done a fantastic great escape so i'll have to try and formulate new ones, and hopefully before lunch because typing when hungry isn't at the top of my favourites list.

one thing i wanted to say was, how come we all assume that we are the normal ones and every one else is quite mad? can't really expand on that, i mean, i'm normal [whatever that means] and you are just quite mad, full stop, end of conversation.

so what happens next, any loose thoughts just hanging around waiting to be typed out? maybe they're like the teenagers hanging out at the local bus terminus, enough shelter from the rain and barely enough street cred to be called a proper meeting place! oh those days, those good old days, the long summer nights of just being bored, bored as all 14 year olds feel with a passion, bored of what nobody ever knew but we were sure we were all bored.

oh well, guess i'll have to round them up later, it is school holidays after all, and even thoughts need a break sometimes!

Monday 26th July

ok, just time for a small type, at least it will get me into the habit of writing at least once a day ~ ok, well maybe not quite that often but at least more often than once every 2 months! ok, brain gone quite blank now i'm faced with a blank screen and only a few minutes left before i have to do something else, all i can think of saying is: aren't we having typical british weather, hot, cold, wet, dry, windy + muggy, all in one day!

oops!

yes oops, i really didn't mean to not write anything for such a long time. the trouble is i write it all in my head just before i go to sleep and then forget that i haven't actually recorded it anywhere! then trying to trawl through the dreams and night time thoughts to find the words tends to muddle it all up, so when it comes to putting finger to keyboard the words come out as jnah lj adkj akhj hdussiw! i'll come back soon, i promise :)

New Prime Minister!?!

new prime minister ~ will it make any difference to our everyday lives?

are they going to build new council houses for the people who really can't afford to buy but end up paying over £700 a month anyway for a grotty rented property ~ and that's not even in London!

are they going to create jobs for those who want to work but cannot make the leap from being unemployed because they wouldn't earn enough money to live on?

or will they just continue giving to those who don't need it and keep taking from those without anything like Robin Hood in reverse!!!

instructions!

why is it i have a problem following instructions? i decided to dye something the other day, the instructions said to wear gloves, why would i think that didn't apply to me? as i didn't want the trousers i was dying to go a really dark blue, just a regular navy blue i decided to measure out about a third of the dye to use. there was one solid lump so i put that back in the box - that was my downfall, solid lump wasn't so solid and bits ingrained themselves, all over my hands! most of it washed off but some was stuck, ingrained under my finger nails and nothing would shift it - never mind i thought, no one will notice. i think actually people did but as i'd forgotten all about it i wasn't explaining my everso overly grubby looking nails, i got funny looks all the next day! it is starting to fade from my nails, i'm hoping the extra scrubbing i'm doing is making some difference and i do wish all those people who saw my nails and thought i was a grubby tart will read this!

only days have gone by not weeks this time, i must be getting better at remembering!

anyone watching the Winter Olympics? i remember someone asking me that a few years ago and i thought it was for old folks, i must be aging fast!!!

poor Nodar, the luge bloke from Georgia who died in training the day of the opening. how sad to have got that far and die before being able to really show your skills. i feel most for his parents, they should be very proud of him, he got to the Olympics and might even have won a medal, he should be awarded a posthumous one.

ok the days fly past as i forget to write ~ must try harder!!!

almost asleep so anything i say now will only make sense to me and martians so i'll forget today and start again tomorrow ~ maybe.

night all, sleep tight and watch the bed bugs don't bite!

follow your dream!

ok so i keep trying to follow my dream but it seems to be running away from me!!!

seriously, i mean to write on here every day but the hours in the day just escape from me. now i could write all night long but then when would i sleep? every time i close the laptop and put the lights out the words come into my head, words that are itching to be written down, the trouble is that i do need to sleep sometimes.

perhaps all i need to do is organise myself, set aside the time to write when nothing else is happening ~ trouble is the words all leave me when i have nothing to do, only to crowd back in when i am at my busiest. inspiration and time need to make friends and run hand in hand for this to work. ever sat at a keyboard and just looked, wondering where the words are hiding and why they can't make the short distance from you fingertips to the keyboard, after all, they've done the hard bit from your brain and all down your arms, is there a road block in your hands?

and then just when you log out of the blog to check your gas bill you suddenly think of something that would look so great, if only you could remember it by the time you get back here!!!