Feest Isolation Days – 25 September
People move on and sometimes they leave you with a vacancy you could do without. Our lovely cleaner Marinella became overstretched and sadly had to stop coming. Shame as she was a bubble and a delight. I found an agency that looks great and I love their attention to detail and their sense of humour. The man who runs the firm interviews all of the cleaners and goes to their homes for an hour or so for a chat and a peek. Clever. He tells me he has over fifty applications for each cleaner he takes on. Life is incredibly tough whatever you do these days it would seem! He also visits the homes of the people his staff will be cleaning for. The business owner is nothing if not thorough! We will soon see how our new cleaner gets on. In the meantime, this is a poem on the literature he left for me.
Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan
Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better
To paint a picture, or write a letter,
Bake a cake, or plant a seed;
Ponder the difference between want and need?
Dust if you must, but there’s not much time,
With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;
Music to hear, and books to read;
Friends to cherish, and life to lead.
Dust if you must, but the world’s out there
With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
This day will not come around again.
Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it’s not kind.
And when you go (and go you must)
You, yourself, will make more dust.
Dust in Old English meant “mortal life”. The “elementary substance of the human body, that to which living matter decays” is the meaning the dictionary gives us.
Then there are dust covers to protect furniture, dust jackets to protect books,
It’s the Americans who first used bite the dust in the 1930s as slang for to kill or die. Thanks Americans…
But are we really made of stardust? Apparently so! Scientists using sophisticated wave length technology have surveyed 150,000 stars and discovered they are composed of CHNOPS (I know me neither!) which are the basic building blocks of humans…and stars! Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur. The difference is proportion but they, and we, all contain the same basics. If you want to read more about this you can do that here…be careful though there is a seemingly never ending series of more information that, should you be so inclined, will take you ages. And why not? Have a peek at least. It’s all about you….
https://www.space.com/35276-humans-made-of-stardust-galaxy-life-elements.html
So dust isn’t so bad after all!
Then of course when discussing dust and especially stardust, Ziggy comes to mind. I leave you with David. There’s plenty more of Mr. Bowie to delight you as well if you have the time. And of course you do! You are made of stardust, and you’re in this world now. Pretty amazing!
Stay safe – Enjoy!
With love
Kathy x