Just sayin'...

having a little fun scribble after all the heavy stuff

My marriage is over, kids are grown

seen death, addiction, abuse & affliction

no doubt, if not for poetry & Leonard Cohen,

                 I'd be effing bat shyte crazy

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

Author's Note

Reviews

[kublakhan27]

No 'bad review' here Mrs.R, I'd be giggling like a schoolgirl if I were not sitting in my mother's living room...you know I absolutely adore this...I wish I had a quote to counter with but I'm still languishing in what you've offered here...the kind of cool, what more can one say? ;)

[Frieda P]

Oh geez, I would have bet my life on a LC quote from you! ;)

[kublakhan27]

I said is this contagious? You said just drink it up ;)

[Frieda P]

Woo now you're tawkin! Doing the happy dance. :) Cheers!

[kublakhan27]

Haha I'll be toasting you again before too long love, and not with 'Darkness' ;)

[Frieda P]

Oi, you did it again! :)

[kublakhan27]

Haha I just have to go get some orange juice soon ;)

[Trace]

This just made me smile
Then I read it again and kinda chuckled.

Then I could imagine you pouring yourself a giant glass of your favorite vintage
Cranking up ROCK 107.5 OLDIES stripping off all your encumberances. ..
And dancing through the house naked.

Enjoyed this.....Trace

[DIVYA]

That is just what makes Frieda. A rough ride only made her stronger and better than the best. So live it up girl and keep spreading the sunshine. You are much adored.

[Frieda P]

Awh thanks for your kind words my sweet friend.

[Woody]

sounds like it's been a rough ride, Frieda. glad you found a lifeline in poetry and LC.
short but sweet. not so heavy as you said.
beautiful song (you have a great taste). love LC.

[Frieda P]

I'm sure everyone has a tough story to tell, that just happens to be mine, thanks Woody. Love LC to pieces....

[Rob Santana]

Uhhhhhh, last line. Yeah I'll just leave it alone. Have a nice day.

[Frieda P]

Ha is that the Creeper pot calling out the kettle?!

[Rob Santana]

Hahaha, yup.

[Mark]

Hallelujah Frieda P
Music, wine, coffee and rhyme
it is my remedy (when measured right;)

got me listening to LC right now, I thank you for that:)

[Frieda P]

Thanks Mark, jazz'd you enjoyed! :)

[redzone]

Hmmm, ah Frieda is that "bat shyte crazy " contagious?? .. just saying, BEWARE Frieda is in town. er.. i mean weren't you always .. i mean :-p
Hmmm LC says "have a nice lighted day" ... hehe xxoo
~~redzone

[Frieda P]

Haha don't you start in on me too, Red already smacked me upside the head with that sweetie! ;) How's the sunshine state surviving with you there? MWAH! xo

[redzone]

The sunshine state just whispered in my ear: "tell Frieda if she want you(me) to stop she will just have to come to the sunshine state and make you(me) stop, besides bat shyte crazy people need to soak up the sun, especially those in love with LC".

Not only sunny but hot, and the water is clear and cool... ;0)

[Nusquam Esse]

It is incredible how a single person's perspective can act as the lifeline that we need to get through those rough times... It is unfortunate that you had to go through what you did, but here you are all the same, so hopefully it wasn't all for the worse. Gotta let in some sunshine after all... I got a good chuckle from your last line, just imagining someone saying it with that particular accent. :)

[Frieda P]

I think that's what poetry and music does for us, it makes us feel as though we're not alone in our feelings/fears/longings...ha, you don't wanna hear my joisey accent! :)

[Nusquam Esse]

bollocks... with how much I have been around, if you think I would be intimidated by ye joisey folk, you have another thing comin... :)

[Frieda P]

Bollocks, love that word!

[Nusquam Esse]

but not the idea? Perhaps you would prefer Rocky Mountain Oysters?

[Frieda P]

Nah, that doesn't blow my skirt up. ....

[Nusquam Esse]

hahahahahha, great response ma'am! Hard to believe that people actually eat that stuff... >_>

[Lydia Shutter]

Leonard Cohen....a brilliant man, but a tortured poet. Love his quotes...."Success is survival." and another is "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." Your life, dear Frieda, is burning well no matter what you think....your poetry is proof of that, Joisey! Lydi**

[Frieda P]

Thanks so much Lydikey, that poetry/ash is my favorite quote of his...was my status for a long time!

[Lydia Shutter]

OH, I didn't even know that! You have good taste, GF! :)

[Frieda P]

I'm in love with LC, can you tell? ;)

[Lydia Shutter]

Just a tad! :)

[Frieda P]

I actually love the mature version muchly better. :)

[R Smith]

Your just so cool Frieda, sorry to hear bout marriage and all the rest, you must be one strong woman and a genius with a pen.....or keyboard haha

[Frieda P]

Don't be, the marriage was a teenage mistake, but I have my three sons, so it's all good, thanks so much Richard.

[R Smith]

Glad to hear it :)