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inkblot
inkblot Member Posts: 698 Member
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
Hi Ladies:

Just wanted to share the following. One of my favorite poems of all time by Jenny Joseph. I have always found it to be inspiring and it forever makes me smile. Hope some of you may enjoy it too!

WARNING
by: Jenny Jospeh

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in the shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shcoked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Love, light and laughter,
Ink

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  • lindatn
    lindatn Member Posts: 229
    #2
    I too love this poem of Jenny Joseph. I see many places selling red hats and purple flowers, ribbons etc. Maybe they would like to donate to the cancer fund since we are all getting older! Only kidding lets not go here again on pink/purple ribbons and red hats. I'll start with picking flowers in the neighbor yard hers are pretty and mind are generally weeds at this time of year. God bless Linda
  • seeknpeace
    seeknpeace Member Posts: 259
    #3
    haha..I love it! I could have written that about my life, but, I am already wearing the red hat. Jan
  • inkblot
    inkblot Member Posts: 698 Member
    #4
    lindatn said:

    I too love this poem of Jenny Joseph. I see many places selling red hats and purple flowers, ribbons etc. Maybe they would like to donate to the cancer fund since we are all getting older! Only kidding lets not go here again on pink/purple ribbons and red hats. I'll start with picking flowers in the neighbor yard hers are pretty and mind are generally weeds at this time of year. God bless Linda

    Ha, ha!!!! Just don't get caught filching those flowers Linda!

    My neighbor's granddaughter's amble over here through the woods once or twice a week to pick some of my flowers and play with our dog (sometimes they bring me flowers too) and it's the biggest hoot. The 5 year old always tries to get away with more, even after her Nana tells her to stop picking! We pretend we don't see her (because I don't mind at all) and of course she takes what she wants. Imagine what she'll be filching when she's old and wearing purple!

    Jan, about that hat: Just get yourself a purple shirt and you're all set! LOL I'm sticking to purple it seems with the hats though! A friend gave me a purple wool scrunch hat in the fall when I'd just finished treatment and had little hair going into winter season. I still have it and still wear it. I also ordered for myself, last season, a multi-coloured, but largely purple, "Katmandu Hat". Hand made in Nepal, it's lined and is the warmest headgear I own and comes right down over both ears, so I wear it a lot. Outside shoveling and plowing snow, fetching firewood from outside and daily errands, etc.. Everybody loves it and asks where I got it. STILL, it's that purple thing! Ha. Wonder what this means? At 51, I'm wondering if I may as well get some red shirts and jackets to compliment the purple? Nah, think I'll wait at least another decade on that one! LOL

    Love, light and laughter,
    Ink
  • lindatn
    lindatn Member Posts: 229
    #5
    inkblot said:

    Ha, ha!!!! Just don't get caught filching those flowers Linda!

    My neighbor's granddaughter's amble over here through the woods once or twice a week to pick some of my flowers and play with our dog (sometimes they bring me flowers too) and it's the biggest hoot. The 5 year old always tries to get away with more, even after her Nana tells her to stop picking! We pretend we don't see her (because I don't mind at all) and of course she takes what she wants. Imagine what she'll be filching when she's old and wearing purple!

    Jan, about that hat: Just get yourself a purple shirt and you're all set! LOL I'm sticking to purple it seems with the hats though! A friend gave me a purple wool scrunch hat in the fall when I'd just finished treatment and had little hair going into winter season. I still have it and still wear it. I also ordered for myself, last season, a multi-coloured, but largely purple, "Katmandu Hat". Hand made in Nepal, it's lined and is the warmest headgear I own and comes right down over both ears, so I wear it a lot. Outside shoveling and plowing snow, fetching firewood from outside and daily errands, etc.. Everybody loves it and asks where I got it. STILL, it's that purple thing! Ha. Wonder what this means? At 51, I'm wondering if I may as well get some red shirts and jackets to compliment the purple? Nah, think I'll wait at least another decade on that one! LOL

    Love, light and laughter,
    Ink

    Hey Ink, Send me that purple hat I have red shirts and jacket and best of all I am ten years older then you! Actually the one from India sounds better. Jan hang on to the red never know when the purple will be needed. Are we being silly you bet laughter is the best medicine some days. You gals who thought we were angry were way off base we love all of you. Pink ribbons are pretty bet purple ones are too. God Bless Linda
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    #6
    Love that poem!!!!11 I'm nearly 70 and already wearing purple and a red hat :)
    Clara
  • inkblot
    inkblot Member Posts: 698 Member
    #7
    unknown said:

    Love that poem!!!!11 I'm nearly 70 and already wearing purple and a red hat :)
    Clara

    GO CLARA!!!! I love it! See what being, shall we say, "more mature" gets us! We can do whatever we want and no one knows whether we're going senile or just having fun! I say keep 'em guessing!

    Love, light and laughter,
    Ink

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