Feest Isolation Days – 16 November
I’ve decided to escape for a week! We were supposed to be heading back to the lovely idyll we found on Exmoor, but Lockdown stopped that. We are not meant to sleep away from our own homes except for business. Can’t really call our escape to the moors business, can we? So, instead, I’ve decided to head to my own desert island. After listening to desert island discs on the BBC for the umpteenth time, I thought what a good idea! I will do my own version and run away with my records safely stored under my arms, along with the complete works of Shakespeare, the Bible and the one book I am allowed to take with me. I’m also allowed a luxury item which I will have to think about. I also will share some lovely photographs from my favourite places. Can you guess where this is? *
If you don’t want to hear my desert island plans, tune in again next Monday. All this week I plan to escape! No mention of shhhh! You know what….nor HIM….you know who…instead…a romp through song and fun.
First up. Oh dear this is harder than I thought it would be… Time to choose though.
Deep breath. The Beatles. Has to start with them. One song? How do you pick one song from the masters? I suppose you stretch back in time and pick the one song that affected you that still stays with you and brings forth memories that you have to this day. I was a child of the sixties. When this song arrived in Pennsylvania sometime in the late 60’s I believed them. The Beatles had arrived on our television screens via The Ed Sullivan show and brought with them a special magic. The song that I replayed over and over a thousand times though had to be All You Need is Love. Still relevant. They tapped into something profound for all of us. I knew the words of most of their songs, and still can sing along to many. This one is easy…we all know these words!
There remains something beautiful and simple about this song. My friends in High School truly believed these words. We would remind each other of their power when everything else was getting us down. There was a war on we didn’t believe in, and our families were still trying to step out of their war years and better themselves along the way. The culture was becoming more permissive, and we embraced the possibility of a certain kind of freedom. Love is all you need spoke to us all.
How could it not?
Enjoy, have a great day and see you tomorrow with another thought from my desert island!
*The photo is from Abel Tasman on the South Island of New Zealand. Not an island nor a desert simply divine place to spend some time…
With love
Kathy x