New Year in June ~ Crazy Love

It has been a long time since I was here.

It almost seemed a shock to me that spring even arrived this year. Somehow, I was still stuck in the mists and fog of last autumn and the darkness of the winter that closed in. Time passed, the days lengthened and grew warmer and the vibrancy of the new leaves on the trees and the growiing grass seemed to assault my eyes with their intensity.

I clung to winter as a child clings to a blanket and wrapped myself in it's chilled isolation.

Changes and losses of last year seemed to have immobilised me and it was difficult to push ahead with any plans and indeed I lacked the enthusiasm to make any.

....and then came April and the start of the horse racing season in Jersey which saw an exhibition of my equestrian paintings in the Member's marquee at Les Landes and life seemed to brighten....

I can scarecely believe that June has finally arrived and my youngest daughter is leaving school.

Today, there is a lightness in my step and song in my head : Van Morrison's "Crazy Love".

Love IS crazy.

It can surprise and amaze,
empower and inspire,
uplift and propel,
sustain and comfort,
puzzle and perplex,
frustrate and confuse ....and should you fear or feel it's loss, love can frighten and dismay and cause you to succumb to grief or anger and despair and feel that life is barely worth living.

Love IS crazy....

....and yet, when it finds you and fills you, it is euphoric and ecstatic and defies adequate description as no words roll from the tongue to compare to kisses that spill from the lips in a language known only to those lovers who share the miracle that transforms your life when your soul recognises itself in another and you see the best part of yourself reflected and perfected in another's eyes.