UE's Weekend Challenge: Clouds - November 24, 2013

What a wonderful theme this week.  I have so many cloud photos, it was 

hard to choose.  These fluffy cotton puffs were clouds hovering above

Santa Cruz, California, one of my favorite spots to sit and have a glass of

wine and count my blessings.

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UE's Weekend Challenge: Clouds

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In India - Thoughts As 2012 Begins - December 31, 2011

I find myself so far from home,

As I wait for New Year's day,

Yet the magic of technology,

Makes no place far away.

I'll raise my glass at midnight,

And toast to all I see,

For here in crowded India,

I've fulfilled my destiny.

Last New Year's eve I told myself,

I'd made a dream come true,

To return to far off India,

To see beloved cruise ship crew.

People thought me crazy,

It's not for one your age,

That trip is for a youngster,

You're way beyond that stage.

I felt just more determined,

Though I suffered from self doubt,

Each time there was an obstacle,

I, somehow, worked it out.

With the blessing of my sons,

I boarded that long flight,

And the rest, of course, is history,

As I celebrate tonight.

I embrace the New Year,

From this land so dear to me,

And pray it showers blessings,

To every land and sea.

I always pray for peace,

To reign upon the earth,

To follow every little child,

From the moment of their birth.

From this land of many gods,

I wish for all mankind,

Prosperity in the coming year,

May happiness you find.

Carmen Henesy

 Copyright (c) December  31, 2011 by Carmen Henesy 

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Blessings

Blessings


Though I mutter about the drizzling rain,
And, as I grab my umbrella, I complain,
For the parched earth below, the glistening drops
Are a blessing.

Work is brutal and the hours long,
And, I wait impatiently for the closing gong,
But every week, when my paycheck comes,
The money is a blessing.

They run shrieking about in whirlwind play,
And seem to ignore what I have to say.
Yet when I hear their prayers at night,
My children are a blessing.

Our country, at times, seems such a mess,
But regardless of this, I must confess,
That to live in the United States, to me,
Truly is a blessing.

I'm growing older, that's for sure,
And, try as they might, there's no cancer cure,
But I woke up this morning,
And that I regard as a blessing.

Carmen Henesy

Copyright (c) 2009 by Carmen Henesy
All rights reserved.