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I WILL LAUGH MORE IN 2018

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A s the curtain comes down on the year 2017, one of my regrets is: I haven’t laughed enough in 2017! So, an important item in my list of 2018 Resolutions is to loosen up a little… Laugh more… Take things not too seriously as though they are all major emergencies in life! Nothing is an ‘emergency’ unless my mind sees it so… wants it so. Well, this ‘knowledge’ needs to be ‘lived’ in the coming year, you see! I n the morning, today, I was reading William Henry Davies’ popular poem, ‘Leisure’. A century later, the poet’s words still haunt us. Let me take you through this wonderful poem:           LEISURE  What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars like skies...
THE WILD, WAYSIDE FLOWERS
There is, always, something extra-ordinary in the wild, wayside flowers...