The Captain’s Heart – 16th October 2024

In the desire to impose order and ritual
Where do you find yourself at end of the day?
Ahead lies the veiled valley
To walk in the everyday world
With promise, a heart full of hope
To be humbled by the universe

Receiving truth in fragments – parts
Colliding, collapsing, pulling & pushing as if
They change every night and pull you along with them
Its dark edges are still dissolving
The captain’s heart, a compass true and fierce
Brings souls together

A cento – 12 lines from 12 other poems. Each line is linked back to the original full poem.

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Today I’m feeling:

A little tired this morning with aching eyes again. But it was get up and go time as we took our car to get the windscreen repaired and new tinting, which means that we’ll be out all day too.

Health:

Physical: 6
Mental: 7

Today I’m grateful for:

The Honda showroom having a really nice seating area with free coffee and muffins. I sat there whilst Amy’s mum was looking at new cars.

I personally don’t think she needs to buy one but if she does, there’s a chance that I will end up with her current one.

The best thing about today was:

Getting our windscreen fixed. It’s been cracked for about three years now! Amy also wanted all the windows tinted darker, which ended up costing almost three times as much as the windscreen.

Apparently, it will keep the car cooler but I could see that it made it much more difficult to see other cars at twilight when I was driving home.

Amy also wants to get all the dings and scratches fixed up but that will have to wait until next month.

What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?

I succumbed to another afternoon nap today and really wish I hadn’t, as I woke up again feeling tired and a little grumpy. I need to plan my day so that I’m doing something in the afternoons and not get tempted to nod off.

Something I learned today?

I saw that I had a missed call from Hayden, so I called him back and asked him where he was and what he was up to and he replied, ‘Changi’. I wasn’t sure that I heard him properly but he confirmed that he was in Singapore on his way to play a show in Germany and travel around Europe a bit to meet his friends.

Well good for him, I hope that he has a great time.

He will start his new job when he gets back and probably have to pay off some credit card debt too, I’m guessing.