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In early January we held our AGM . The secretary took the minutes and gave them to me later in the evening. I looked for them the next day, but couldn’t find them. Today I reached into my desk organizer , looking for something else, and found the minutes!
So I have been looking at this poem, “An Old Woman of the Roads” for a student. And I just spent a few hours at home alone, cleaning the kitchen and baking. After cleaning a drawer and putting things back, the words came to me “I could be busy all the day, cleaning and sweeping hearth and floor and fixing on their shelf again, my white and blue and speckled store”. The woman in the poem lives in the mist and dark and is so tired of the wind and road, longing to be “sure of a bed”. All she wants is a little house “out of the wind’s and rain’s way”. And as I noticed the dark and wet night I felt so thankful to have so much.
An Old Woman of the Roads, by Pádraic Colum
O, to have a little house!
To own the hearth and stool and all!
The heaped up sods upon the fire,
The pile of turf against the wall!
To have a clock with weights and chains
And pendulum swinging up and down!
A dresser filled with shining delph,
Speckled and white and blue and brown!
I could be busy all the day
Clearing and sweeping hearth and floor,
And fixing on their shelf again
My white and blue and speckled store!
I could be quiet there at night
Beside the fire and by myself,
Sure of a bed and loth to leave
The ticking clock and the shining delph!
Och! but I’m weary of mist and dark,
And roads where there’s never a house nor bush,
And tired I am of bog and road,
And the crying wind and the lonesome hush!
And I am praying to God on high,
And I am praying Him night and day,
For a little house – house of my own –
Out of the wind’s and the rain’s way.
Today I connected with a kindred soul. After reading about this women’s success online, today I got the chance to meet her (via Skype) and exchange stories. Connecting with another women on this level was so uplifting, especially when new to a city. She reminded me that “anything is possible” and ” possibility is everywhere”. I felt a shift after speaking with her. Like, things are going okay.
Just arrived in Saskatoon earlier this month and met one of the neighbours. The most incredibly inspiring guy ive ever met. Beaming from ear to ear, he wished us a wonderful afternoon and was so full of positivity it was contagious; even now, a week later, i stll smile thinking of him.
We have pretty hefty student tenant living in a rented room. He contacted me to let me know the door knob couldn’t be unlocked. He climbed through the window to get in and open it . Then when I brought him back a door knob set he installed it.
Incidentally the next day his neighbour’s door lock failed. He had left his window unlocked so he was able to find it less of a hassle. Appreciate how easy going he, in fact, they both are.