{"id":8196,"date":"2023-01-08T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8196"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:02:14","slug":"joy-in-an-almost-joyless-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8196","title":{"rendered":"Joy in an almost joyless week…."},"content":{"rendered":"

 Most of this week has been grey – very grey with rain. I suppose I could have found some joy in the fact that at least it wasn’t snow. I also did enjoy the memory it gave me of living in England many years ago. I loved my two years in London and still keep in touch with two of my four flatmates.<\/p>\n

I got Wordle on the second try last Friday and bought a lottery ticket. I only buy lottery tickets when I solve Wordle on the second try or get it in three trys, three days in a row. Yes, Friday should have been my lucky day a 2\/6 (wordle talk) on the day of the LottoMax draw. My win wasn’t in the stars though, so I will have to wait for that joy.<\/p>\n

I got the tree down and out yesterday. Vacuumed through the house. Organized dinner and went to the office to check on inventory for a store. I woke up this morning with nothing pressing to do – I rarely iron anyway. However, I do enjoy being organized, with a clean house, meals planned and time to dawdle.<\/p>\n

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I think my joy of the week, though, has to be a post on FB of a poem by W. B. Yeats<\/p>\n

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\u201cThough I am old with wandering<\/div>\n
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,<\/div>\n
I will find out where she has gone,<\/div>\n
And kiss her lips and take her hands;<\/div>\n
And walk among long dappled grass,<\/div>\n
And <\/a><\/span>pluck till time and times are done<\/div>\n
The silver apples of the moon,<\/div>\n
The golden apples of the sun.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2015 William Butler Yeats<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I am reminded of his passion for Maud Gonne. His love poems are always filled with the vastness of the universe and the endlessness of time. For surely Love is, what is all encompassing and forever.<\/p>\n

The picture? The best I could do for some enduring love.<\/p>\n

Have a lovely day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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