Drifting down the Stream

A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky
By Lewis Carroll

A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear —

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is it but a dream?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43907/a-boat-beneath-a-sunny-sky


I still love this poem. It has a summer sadness about it - and also it is right about how unreal our lives are now - they are gone so quickly - like a dream. And so often a nightmare at that - see any episode of the News.

And I remember Alice trying to get into the garden she could see through the keyhole - but she could not.  We long to get back to Eden, to the time when our first parents were perfect and living, not damaged and dying, and they lived in Paradise - a time when their lives were full of joy.

But we can't.  

Our Creator, Jehovah, can and will restore the Garden of Eden earthwide.  And then our real lives will begin.

The photo is of a "Woodland stream with Wren" I found it in Captain Butterfly's picture gallery.  I can't make out the wren, but maybe, after my cataract operations... who knows?  I just checked with Captain B, and he says the wren is not in this photo - he has a separate pic of it. So my eyes are not quite as bad as I thought. Hurray! At my age when anything is not as bad as I had thought it was is a reason for rejoicing.

The stream is in West Sussex by the way.

I seemed to get myself together a bit on Thursday - about time too - and re-stocked the freezer with cake for his Lordship's packed lunches - marmalade muffins this time - did a load of washing, scrubbed out the bathroom, and made a veggie and lentil stew for supper. I also continued my studies, but did not do any witnessing beyond a fb post.

I am trying to continue this burst of moderate energy and on Friday I got an apple crumble in the oven. I also worked on a comment on a powerful essay in Frontpage Magazine by Dr.Danusha Goska.  It sets out the blatant double standards in the way the world reacts to Hitler, Mao and Stalin, and their victims - given that they all killed millions in the service of their mad "isms".

George Orwell nailed it really.  To "the world" and its Movers and Shakers, all atrocities are equal, but some are more equal than others. So while I did manage to comment, and thank the writer for writing the article, and the magazine for publishing it, I could not do better than that,

Jehovah's loving impartiality stands in such a shining contrast to "the world", and I am so grateful for it.