No Regrets

Every blog post since Saturday, 07 March, has had photos of foxes, glass, or birds. This post will not break that pattern. I got a couple dozen shots of the fox today. The cats were outdoors when I spotted her. I got the girls inside but not easily. Kenz came right in but Bella was her usual self and refused to let me pick her up outside. She has always been like that but from my tone, knew I was not about to play games with her.

I'm taking a break from cleaning. It's not fun but part of the necessary drudgery of life. Wax is drying on my kitchen floor at the moment and it will soon be ok to walk in my studio without shoes. Yes, necessary.

I'm going to a friend's house for lunch tomorrow and she invited me to come this afternoon, have some drinks and supper and spend the night but I was disciplined and am doing the chores instead. I hemmed and hawed and wavered back and forth but decided to stay and do housework. Am I crazy? I don't know but that's today's path.

Tom Rush explains the predicament quite well with Joni Mitchell's, Urge For Going, and No Regrets.

Child's Song

My Mom and her cousin

Happy Mother's Day to all who are mothers out there. It is a hard day for some, myself included. It has been the hardest day of the year for me since my Mom died ten years ago. I always felt bad for my kids. I would be immobile except for tears for the whole day. Two years ago they convinced me to come out to brunch. There was no way I sit and cry in a restaurant full of people so I had a couple of hours tear free. I've been progressively better each year since. I decided to work today because there's no way I can sit and cry all day in the public so for at least nine hours I will control the tears.

I talked with a friend last night. He and his wife lost their seventeen year old daughter very suddenly last September and are facing "the first Mother's Day." The "first anything" is hard but Mother's Day has to be the worst. They are trying to keep it together for their sixteen year old son but are finding it very difficult.

Sentimental Heart by She and Him and the gorgeous Child's Song by Tom Rush are the songs of the day. I'm going to add two more songs today because that will bring me up to 300 songs on Page Two. It takes longer to save each song as the page gets bigger so I'm going to start a new page tomorrow. In the beginning Page One had 500 songs. When Putfile deleted most of the songs I brought it only to 400. I think 300 is more manageable so look for a new link tomorrow.
The two extra songs today are the best version ever of Cryin', the Roy Orbison classic, by Orbison and kd lang. An updated version of You're Gonna Make Your Mama Cry by The Neville Brothers. Enjoy!