On this day I choose to be happy

On this day I choose to be happy

Today it's the anniversary of my dad's death

18 years ago, he had an egg and asked for a 2nd

when his 2nd breakfast egg arrived he has already gone

when my sister came with the news I howled

like a puppy being beaten with an iron bar

for a full hour.

Yesterday in Indonesia I think somebody

was reading My Dad my Best Friend

so you an all find and read that too.

Find and read Padre Pio and Me  too  on the sites

BUT BACK TO THE THEME

We choose to be happy

Yes things happen and they can break our spirit

But not for ever

I once found the How I Can Make this Day Count "poem"

So I cut it out and framed it.

I did not even know it was the AA motto

I thought it was just a good motto

I also cut out a Caravaggio  Xmas scene

and had that on my mantelpiece next to the AA poem

I had not even heard of Andrew Graham Dixon

he's Britain's best Art expert, go google him, he's always

available for work. A kind of jobbing Art Expert, a la bona

Duncan and Sandy  art aspirations. I hope he's smiling or I'll

be through a canvas.

Anyway let's be happy, so we cannot afford $500,000,000 for a nice

piece to adorn our walls, and we can't get Andrew Graham Dixon, so good I name dropped him twice. So we have a 10p cardboard biscuit tin winter scene hanging on our bedroom wall inside a plastic bag from your Yfronts. Well that's what I've had these past 50 years. I do change my Yfronts and the plastic bag occasionally. But that 10p cardboard biscuit tin winter scene means so much to me, more that the $500,000,000 nice piece the Russian guy has on his wall, or the Monet that famous writer has on his wall, so famous I've forgotten his name, now I remember that Archer guy, yes I really forgot for a second. The Movelat pain killer has not kicked in yet, so forgive me Jeffery.

So let's all strive to be happy, today, even if we are thinking about our dear dead dad. Because your dad, my dad, or even Our Father who Art in Heaven, dad would like us all to be happy, why be sad , why worry , because worry is useless, as Padre Pio used to say.

So this is what I've written for you all this morning, and yes the INTERLUDE IS OVER, so are you ready to READ and be READ to. Come on, I cannot hear, you, YES say YES. On your marks get set, bookmarkers at the ready.
The fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham is back at his desk, still wearing the same sweaty string vest, but soon it'll be curtains  for him, IF only he/I can find a man to put a curtain rail up. So bona curtain rail sticker uppers a la Duncan and Sandy do come, and lol by and stick it up, not up my jumper but on the wall. So just knock my knockers, and then I'll have curtains, and that'll be the end of that, just don't trip over the cat.

Michael CASEY  26TH JAN 2020

Eagles of Death Metal

I stumbled over this by accident as I wanted some uplifting music today.

So at first you think it's tragic

but it is not, it's about a friendship so close ,

just great buddies making great music.

I was immensely moved by this documentary. And by the music too. But most of all it was about energy and love. The tall guy really is and angle, and the guy in the moustache is an angel with great attitude. Just watch the documentary and cry, I cried a lot tonight, but the energy and love through Music was so strong.

Vive La Musique , and Bien Sur Vive la France, au memoire de Le Batalan, Vive la France, Vive la Musique

Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends)

2017 ‧ Music/Documentary ‧ 1h 24m

Play trailer on YouTube

and this is why I  love Music so much, and why as a writer I'm just rubbish in comparison , Music has more Juice

comparison

there will now be an interlude

There will now be an interlude

have things not to do

so read old stuff

i'll be back soon, I hope

Say a Prayer Tonight, please

Let There Be Light ©

By Michael Casey

Let my tears be my words

Let the candle light be my eyes

Let the flowers in bloom be my lips

Let their scent be my blood

Let the wind be my breath

Let clouds be my mood

Let children’s laughter be my hope

Let widows’ sighs be my conscience

Let a stranger’s prayers be my delight

Let the bees be my wisdom

Let the trees be my strength

Let my patience reach to the stars

Let me be always remembered in your prayers

9 Languages in a Day, so well done

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9 Languages in a Day, so well done

Bengali, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Korean, Indonesian, Polish, Turkish and Persian

so the question is? Am I a great writer? Or is it a punishment?

Stay happy all of you and spread the word. Michael Casey writes for everybody.

Maybe I can get Media companies to sit up, and let me “corrupt” on a bigger scale.

Go to my typepad to hear me read 200 stories in English

maybe one day I’ll re-record them, everything was in one take 5 years ago I think.

and yes the stone building is not a pig sty, it’s where my mum was born and lived

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Winter Sun Sunday

Winter Sun Sunday ©

By

Michael Casey

Well I managed to get up reasonably early today, after Tinnitus being real bad lately. You try getting to sleep for 6 hours, and fail, just getting more and more exhausted. So I’m pleased with that, though it doesn’t keep the pain monster away. Random pain on random parts of my body, but let’s move3 on. I’m sure random people will be glad I stop sending emails in the night from my phone, I’ve only just worked out how to do that, it was the side effect of Tinnitus.

So today it’s bright and sunny and dangerous too, the hill has ice on it, so I need be careful, I hurt my back and I was like a 100 year old for a week, this was before my daughter shared her flu. So altogether maybe 3 weeks of not being my usual self, and I can hear what you are saying so stop it, I still have ice cold lettuce in the fridge and I will slap the back of your legs with it, so behave, behave not beehive, you’ve been watching Nannie McFee again.

It feels and looks like skiing weather, blue skies and a crispness to the air, maybe snow soon. In the woods by me the kids all go sledging in the snow, its a bowl shape perfect for sledging. Since we’ve moved nearer to the woods I haven’t been there as much as I should. It’s 7mins walk away, and I used to walk the family dog there when I lived at the family house 35 years plus ago. Perhaps I’ll pay more visits this 2020, I did put a sex scene in those woods, it’s in Chapter One of Tears for a Butcher, which I’ll probably never finish, not unless my Korean copy typist turns up, so you are all saved, not unless you are a Korean copy typist.

There’s not as much pedestrian traffic here as at the old house, so less inspiration walking past, though a man just walked by is a very long silver coat walking his dog. He reminded me of a hot dog from Costco, all ready to be covered in sauce, which reminds me Costco is great, the settee behind me was from their online offerings. I’m contemplating what this room will look like once the curtain rail and curtains go up. I’ve been like an Amsterdam Prostitute sitting in the window in my stockings and suspenders as I sit here writing stories for you all. A year as a writing whore, on full display for the passers by as I sit here in my chair. Though all that’ll disappear this week as the curtains come down on me, exposed no more. And me wanting exposure so I could sell my wares, my stories, no smirking or the wet lettuce will come out, Larry Grayson taught me well.

Talking of Larry Grayson I met his friend Pop it In Pete in the Post Office, I bought a stamp so I could send a greetings card to my big daughter at University. Some things do need to be popped in the post after all, it shows you care and went to the effort, support your Local Post Office. Though to be honest I am an email man, obviously because I don’t care, see I said it before you could, remember your ear is very near me. That’s how our dad reminded us he’ll slap us, 55 years ago and more.

Yes, a bit of Winter sunshine lifts the mood, but if you go outside you return like like a 90 year old asthmatic or dirty phone call person. And yes making heaving breathing phone calls on the internal phone call system did add to the fun on the night shift 40 years ago. There’s a lot more I could reveal but not today, makes me sound like a lazy stripper. See words create pictures, it’s like cinema for when you haven’t got the 2quid to go to the Grove cinema. I used to get 2 quid off my dad and I went to see a film, that was 45 years ago or so, I think it was on Sunday’s too.

Now I need to eat now, and I heard that too, how could he eat any more, he’ll explode like a balloon. You are so cruel, just because you are 80 countries away you think you can mock me. I’ve seen your dirty habits, reading The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker, in Persian or Arabic or Chinese or whatever languages, and wherever you are. And you thought it was a Business Studies Title, something about marketing across the trades, I had the last laugh, it’s a comedy about a street of shops with a very dramatic ending. I bet you don’t even know what a 29288 really is. Go on clever dicks in Kardasian, is that a country or a people, anyway what is a 29288, is that a Kim thing, the North Korean Kim thing?

So while I go and eat, and maybe I’ll explode a bit after my beans, you go and do some homework. What is the meaning of 29288 in the book and in reality. And the winner gets a prize. They can come and speed type Tears for a Butcher, I just hope your not a Sumo from Japan.

p.s. I just spotted South Korea reading, so hello to the Blue House

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