Reply To: Wannabefree’s Friday night Blog…

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Hi everyone, another week done… Just…

For me, it has been far too hot, and the catarragh I get continuously these days has been a bit of a curse.

I have struggled quite a bit with the idea of being wanted in the world… Surely we all need that, to be wanted  mean…

one of the things that brings people together is music… Dancing even…  I’m thinking about joining some sort of dance club… Latin American looks good, when done extremely slowly…  I listen a lot to the ballads of the 70’s 80’s and 90’s.  Very melodic. Due to licenscing and stuff, people don’t sin in public anymore. In London, the tunnels of the underground would echo with song. Now, even carol singing has been tied up in greed and politics…

Anyway… To be wanted, we have to attract the attentions of another… But that is difficult when money becomes involved… It seems that ‘club’ and societies become full of ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’, the latter walking away because none of it seems fair…

I’ve long stopped trying to keep up with anyone else… Unfortunately, a lot of hobbies are now very expensiveto be involved in, but, On your mobile phone, you have a very advanced camera… Far beter than the old SLR’s we used to use, with multiple lenses etc. Also, No processing involved. I started off with flowers, cos the colours are often very profound. In the 70’s, it was colour slides and a projector. Now it is computer screen, and even uploaded onto the telly!  Also, not so many ‘other peoples holiday pics on slide shows’, that would, by natural thought, be incredibly boring to anyone, other than the people who wanted to show us where they had been on holiday!

But, we can now indulge in photography aound the house…

Do you remmber a tv programme from years ago called ‘Ask the Family’?  Fronted by Robert Robinson, it had a section called ‘Mystery object’ or similar. We would see images of household objects, taken from unusual angles, for us to figure out what the object was.  We can do that, and make up whole albums of pics. Maybe get published?  I believe that what stopped the programme was the weekly appearances of children in dinner suits that matched the parents, who just turned out to be high in the teaching proffession…  Never mind…

There is gonna be something that you and I are already very good at… A talent that needs developing into a skill… I used to think about doing short stories… Fewer words to write, But;

Getting a beginning, a middle, and an ending into around 2000 words is not as easy as it may at first sound…

Almost impossible in fact…

The alternative can take many years to get just right…

Can you sing? Youtube gives us music to sing along to at home, often with lyrics on the screen too.  Karaoke used to be very popular… But it takes skill and courage, not to mention the ability to sing in tune, which is not something we are all naturally blessed with. (Mind you, some celebs have their voice ‘corrected’ in the music studio, but where is the fun and pride in that…)

I love to watch the early editions of ‘The repair shop’.  Waching people who are very good at what they do, is amazing to watch, and the joy it brings to people, cannot be matched by any sort of monetary status. It takes many years to build skills like that, and it is often difficult to find artisans like that just anywhere.

Are you good at any sort of food cooking or suchlike? Even if you just photograph it and eat it yourself, having something just how you like it, is brilliant. Cos, when eating out, you sometimes never know what sort of meal you are going to get!!!  And if you happen to be one of those amazing people who can boil an egg, and then get the shell to co operate, without destroying the egg, Well… Good on you!   My only way for that is a meal deal at the local supermarket!!!

I play music keyboards… And for many years, I really tried to let my little light shine… But bullies were effectively metaphorically, and contiously blowing out  my ‘candle’.  Well now… I simply play on in the dark… And it is magical…  Obviously I play by ear… But I also cannot see the buttons I’m pressing in the darkness. No light, just wonderful sound…

Okay… What shall we do this week?  Well, the smiling is relatively cheap, although dissapointing when it doesn’t come back… But a lot of people never smile… We seem to be stuck in facial frowns, when not actively smiling. Be careful of the ones that glare all of the time… And listen to ‘Desiderata’ by Les crane. It is on youtube.

Until next week then dear friends… 2nd August!  About 1800 hours UK time… Right here.

Wannabe