Motherland

Well, for obvious reasons, I didn't write a blog yesterday, June 29th. And if you don't know the obvious reasons, its just as well.

I went in the kitchen for water earlier today, and something white outside the back window caught the side of my vision. I turned to see a full bloomed gardenia. The plants finished blooming 3 weeks ago. I don't remember it this morning - I would have at least seen the bud. I then looked up at the clock on the stove - it was 1:11. Ahh, hello Mother ♥


My gardenia, right out there where my cat lays most of the day. She loves the smell of them, I can see her lifting her head and sniffing and then laying back down. She's a good cat. She hates the broom, even through the window.

My cousin just added her painting of a cat to her on-line artists community collection. This painting is so gorgeous it almost looks real. It is so pretty. Don't you just want to pick this cat up and cuddle with it?


I've used this song before, I like it. But I won't put all the lyrics this time.

Oh Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep.
Keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me don't go.
It's your happiness I want most of all and for that I'd do anything at all, oh mercy me!
If you want the best of it or the most of all, if there's anything I can do at all.

Oh Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep.
Keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me don't go, don't go.
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep.
Keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me don't go.
Don't go.

Natalie Merchant