'I live at the top of the block
No more trouble and fuss
Need a change, a positive change
Look, it's me writing on the wall'.
Soul To Soul: Back to Life
'It's dark. I'm awake. It's 4am, though I don't know it yet! My husband is not beside me. He returns to tell me that we have a new life.It's early September and I've just returned from Scotland a few hours ago, after a busy week catching up with family and friends.
Flying back aren't we always suspended between two very different lives: one calm and contemplative and another proactive and productive? Two very different selves. For me the contrast could not be more stark and the transition, therefore not always easy to make. My holiday days consisting of relaxed pyjama -mornings drinking coffee followed by tea-dressed afternoons drinking (you guessed!) more coffee. Contrast my normal frantic days of work and lots of dog-walking.
However when the wheels of the plane hit the ground at Napoli, I'm ready. With summer sun setting on my final week of freedom, I'm hitting the ground running. I'm well and truly back. Back to life, back to reality.
Back to my living-room. Our beautiful dog is now a mother. Her first-born lies beside her. Tiny, tiny; the size of a guinea pig. Molto carino- as Italians would say. He is perfect. In the absence of a birthing-pool, is forced to improvise with an Ikea setee and settles in for the long haul. The final puppy breathes new life at 11am.
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'Back to life, back to the present time
Back from a fantasy, yes
Tell me now take the initiative
I'll leave in your hands, until you are ready'
Soul To Soul: Back to Life
