FebulousFebruary 2025: Lost and Found

Shopping for essentials

Essential: completely necessary: extremely important…

Like Art, the Joy of creating, the Passion for life, and the excitement of exploring ideas and worlds inside your head and out there, where birds sing and polar bears roam shrinking glaciers. Like smelling the wind off the snow, and feeling the spray off the waterfall and understanding their songs.
These are not available in Lidl.

Like a meaning to your life, that makes you want to get up in the morning for the joy the day might bring. Like enthusiasm for getting it done, whatever it is. Like understanding how that it fits into your purpose. Like challenges and meeting them head-on… with a fellow human to share the hilarity of your failures and the recognition of your success. Challenges more interesting and varied than surviving day after almost identical day of social media, Netflix and bananabread, and smiling grimly at the observation that we are lucky to be safe. Like a vision of the future, to hope for and work towards, that we are not afraid to seek.
These are not available by click-and-collect.

Like You, my friend, whom I cannot see or touch, and cannot visit, except by the slippery and deceitful glass screen of videochat. Except in my memories, and my hopes for the future. But you are essential to me.
And you are not available via Amazon.
Even though you are one.

Fin McMorran (age 64 and 3 quarters) Eighton Banks, Tynesid