Whole life Self care through learning about the whole self. Dealing with what life sends day by day
The Autumn of my life
The autumn of my life
Sung by Sgt Barry Sadler
the song is found on YouTube if you want to listen to it.
the words are as Follows
I’m going down to the river and watch the leaves drift by
I am going down to the river and watch me life go by
This is the autumn of my life
I remember joy and strife
I’m just like the restless river
Always moving on and on
The river once was young like me
When first rushed to meet the sea
But now it’s old with passing years
My river is a sea of tears
I’m going down to the river and watch the leaves drift by
I’m going down to the river and watch my life go by
This is the autumn of my life
Gone is the love that once was mine
Gone in the autumn of my life
This song made me think and it made me cry then it made me think again. This is what I came up with.
Yes I’m going down to the river to watch the leaves drift by
To see the beauty in the autumn colours in those leaves. To see how events in my life have marked moulded and aged me.
Boy I hope I have as much colour as those leaves!
Yes I have many things in my life flooding back to me at the moment. Many memories good, bad, and yes, some of them ugly, some were because things were out of my control and some were my reaction to someone else while others were my own making. The tears and the thinking are aids to sorting out this jumble of what cannot be changed but can be understood.
It is the way of age. And just like my bank balance I have to assess it now and again.
So yes I am going down to the river to watch the leaves drift by
But I am not going down to the river to watch my life pass by.
I will remember what is beautiful what is useful and what I was not proud of
I will take into ownership and take action, where there is still time, and put things right where I can. I will hold my head up high and let go of what is of no use to me.
Yes gone is the love of my life but as one door closed another opened so I change just like the river. I honour that love, I bless that love and remember the fun and the strife for they are part of me.
As the river flows to the sea so I flow to my old age and the new me
Whatever age I am as long as I can get up in the morning and can see or feel the love of the universe and the energy of the brightest star I know I will be fine.
I will be who I am as I cannot change what was but I can change what is.
So yes this song made me think and it helped me to see, that watching the leaves pass by and reliving the sad times in my life does not need me to sit and let the rest of my life drift by.
Thank you Barry Sadler God rest your soul and may your voice and words build hope in all who hear it.
Love and light Demici
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Author: Demici
Hi please enjoy the work that I place here and on my Facebook just look for Demici. or Rosemary Sladden.
My motto is 'My computer is my wheelchair'. Because I am dyslexic and the technology of the computer and the keyboard have helped me to communicate using the written word. So all I place here is my own work ably assisted by Grammarly and WordPress.
Who I am!
I am finding it hard to learn how to be retired. Maybe if I look at it as just doing the things I love to do?
Now I have time my ambition is to travel on every bus and train in England. The fun is to find out what is around and watch the countryside as I travel through it.
More fun is being a medium (talking to dead people and working with guides who take me to where I need to be) So I would love to serve every Spiritualist Churches in England.
My writings come from my life experiences and the learning that has taken me down many paths of interest. From becoming an intuitive Spiritual Life Coach, Spiritualist healer, Reiki master, medium, teacher, philosopher to being a mother, grandmother, landlady who shared her home with many other people. From working as a turkey farmhand to driving a forklift truck in a warehouse. From traveling across the world during my childhood to settling down in my own little cottage in the north of England.
I share it all here for those who are interested.
I have gained experience and obtained qualifications that are listed below. I use them to help me understand my life as well as to help any who asks me for help to understand and improve their lives.
Life Coach, I can help me to look at people as individuals living a life that is different from mine and yet some of the experiences that they face have taught me to see that we all have lessons to learn in this life and need support to learn them from time to time. I learned how to teach people how to look at life from a different understanding place so that they can see their own way forward.
I am still learning how to be the best medium I can become. So that I can offer that bridge/telephone line between the two worlds and join friends and family who have passed into the next world with those in this world who. My thought is that we all can and do achieve this all the time it is nothing special just sometimes we are so upset disoriented that we think we can't. IF we loved someone once we can always know them because the memory sits in our heart. Healers work with energy and guides and their own spirit self to help to provide the energy so that other people who are in need can repair their own Dis-Ease.
I have used this place to put some relaxation and self-help poems, videos, sound recordings, lead visualization meditations I hope you find them useful. Lookout in the near future for the video files that will be here when I find out how to make them and then put them here.
Philosophy comes through in the poems I write that you can read on my blog, I hope you like them. If you would like me to help you please contact me (say that you have come from this site please) and I will see what I/we can do to help.
Something about me as a person. I am a great grandmother and used to live in a shared house that was very busy most of the time. Now great quietness is all around me as I move to a new one-story terraced property. (cottage)
I have loved to travel all my life. Why do I like to travel? Because I meet all kinds of interesting people. Some of the stories are posted on here for you to read. I hope you like this place and if you do please feel free to send me feedback I love feedback good or bad!
love and light to all who visit Demici
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