Suddenly the room became
filled with light and I heard of voice, with a slight Jewish accent, say,
“ tell them about the day
when you were 13yrs 10mnths, 5 days old, sitting in class at Crows Nest Boys
High, Sydney Australia.”
Yes, the ‘Literature
teacher,’ had just read the famous poem by, Rudyard K,
I could feel my skin
tingling and my hair seemed to be standing straight up.
I think most of you at B
& B WG know this beautiful poem but at the end you ladies just have to
change the words to – then you are a woman.
That is my prediction – IF
– because as sure as night follows day, we will face many of the challenges but
members of B & B WG will soldier on!!!
As the light faded and the
voice fell silent, I remembered another day at school when the drama teacher
had chosen me to be Malvolio in the Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare. I can
remember standing on stage, looking out at the audience and uttered those
famous words:
’some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.’
’some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.’
That’s my prediction for
writers and poets from B & B WG – GREATNESS in 2014.
I hope this is not too
serious – I did think of writing about 2014 being, things much the same as 2013
– those afflicted with M A D will continue with their songs, those who write
the poetry will do so and ideas will flourish in the garden of ‘words of the
day’. Discussions and homework will continue to reflect the creativity resident
in the group and I’ll be thousands of kms away wondering how our political
situation will evolve – civil war, a coup, or if the people will WIN –
fortunately, I live in the far north, far from the maddening crowd and problems
but I do feel so sorry for the families struggling and wish they could read, IF
January 2014
Homework due 15 January
Homework due 15 January
A sticky situation
