Pursuit of happiness was my goal in lifw.
No more sadness, no more strife.
My uncle told me this was not true:
Just look for contentment in all you do.
Happiness in this life has but a short stay
But contentment lasts from day to day.
Seeking contentment was so good for me.
A life changing decision you must agree.
by Ann Simpson
Gentle Woman kind and true
Wisdom and love flowed from you.
You were at my side on life’s long way
Your helping hand there everyday.
Your passing was such great sorrow
And for a while there was no tomorrow.
But time can heal and now from above
My gentle mother you send your love.
By Ann Simpson
Feelings used to be like a wall to me
because I was hollow to the core.
Tear drops never dropped ’cause men don’t cry.
Anger was all I knew: it was my best friend,
but in the end my heart showed through.
by Mark Thomas
My mum never told me about sex when I was growing up. My friends told me about periods. They all started before me. I got worried that mine hadn’t started. My mum asked me what was wrong. I told her I was worried that my periods hadn’t started. She was furious. She thought I was telling her I was pregnant!
By Lee
After a lifetime of disappointment I’ve finally realised I should give up on hope. The best motto for life that I can think of is: just get on with any day the way it is; not the way you hoped it would be. But though I know I have no hope of winning, I still dream I’ll win the Lottery.
By Sheila Ryan
I would like to see my grandkids grow up and do a lot more writing and painting. It would be nice to see them on the world wide web or on the computer. I will one day.
By Harold Henry Williams
My hopes and expectations for 2007 are to carry on with my various classes, especially my writing. Enjoy a few short holidays and outings with friends and keep myself in good health.
I look forward to seeing what comes up in my garden, not counting the weeds! I’m afraid I don’t make any new year resolutions. I never keep them!
By Marjorie Wells
Reflections I don’t like New Year. On New Year’s eve I think of all the lost souls and lonely people. Some people need to kick out the old year for various reasons, but I don’t like being presumptious about the incoming year. That’s why I see it in quietly with thanks and humility. Happy Every Day Every One!!!
By Alan Ridgeway (actor/poet)
In 2006 I got my first certificates and wrote my first book. Thanks to New Leaf for publishing it.
In 2007 I hope to write another book and get more certificates. I want to become a school caretaker. I’m a very handy person. I’d love to entertain the children playing my accordion and watch their eyes light up with delight.
Thomas Campbell
Do you feel guilty when you eat a cream cake or a chocolate bar? I feel guilty writing this with a pen and paper. I’m told it’s easy to put these thoughts straight onto a floppy disk or pen drive (whatever they are). It is not easy. Your screen may tell you it is printing out your thoughts, but it isn’t. Your printer stands there, hostile and mute, even though it has its little green light on. When you phone an expert, your thirteen year-old great niece, and they ask you to go right, then left, it takes a while to realise they mean on the mouse and not going wildly from one side of the screen to the other…but still nothing happens.
I feel guilty when I can’t turn the damn thing off! It tells you it is “closing down”, it plays you a little “goodbye” tune, but it won’t go! You wait and wait for the little green light to turn to orange and all the time it is humming away, putting up your electric bill. Why is it we are told over and over not to leave our television standby light on, in fact any standby lights, but no-one ever mentions computers?
Finally the greatest guilt of all. I turn off the power! While the green light is still on! I have had the last word. Now, where’s that cream cake?
By Freda Wallwork
