A gift to me
So many gifts to bestow unto me
They're all hidden
under a secret tree
Never uncovered
until the next time
my true love
sends a gift to me
Until the next time
my true love
sends a gift to me
will it be silver
or gold
will it be diamonds
or coals
Oh what will my love send to me?
will it be rubies
or dust
will it be copper
or rust
Oh what will my love send to me?
will it be crystals
or plums
Will it be secrets
or drums
Oh what will my true love send to me?
Will it be ergot
or lyme
Will it be ribbons
or thyme
Oh what will my true love send to me?
Will it be able
or kind
Will it be whiskey
or wine
Will it be petals
or brine
Will it be woolen
or twine
Oh what will my true love send to me?
posted by Anita @ 4:07 PM
1 Comments:
If I was sending you a gift, today, I would send you another of my Housecoat Diaries for your consideration, this one regarding subtle talents:
Housecoat Diaries (April 24)
Which do you think is the more significant talent: being really good at finding things, or always being able to know almost exactly what time it is?
There are many obvious talents like singing and drawing and liquor tolerance, but there are also many talents that people probably wouldn’t think to put on their resume, even though they really should do so.
I truly believe that any prospective employer would be thrilled to hire someone who is very good at being able to find things. Actually, I think that if you are a person who is really good at finding stuff that no one else seems to be able to notice, chances are you won’t be the employee, you’ll be the boss. Being able to see what no one else can is the essence of imagination, and it is only through imagination that superb leadership is born.
The same thing, in many ways, is true about being always somehow able to know almost exactly what time it is. A talent like that says a great deal about your sense of focus, and your ability to put yourself into the present moment. And being able to trust your intuition allows you to be free of all kinds of limitations. Being very much in touch with time in this way is basically the essence of magic, which I will choose over money every time.
Crazy as it may sound, think of it this way: “Time will get you through times without money better than money will get you through times without time.” Ultimately, your relationship with the impossible (you can also call it magic) - the things that can’t be seen, the moments that are forever fleeting, and the ideas and riddles that the mind uses to try to find a way into these things - is your greatest talent, to whatever degree you may have it. Everyone has these things a little bit, and they are all very practicable. With effort and faith, you can be more accurate than any clock or metal detector. Just trust yourself.
What’s even more beautiful about the opportunity offered by these seemingly simple little concepts - trying to guess what time it is, and trying to find lost things - is that they can bring people together and help them to motivate and inspire each other. And then another talent can come into play: being able to let things be someone else’s idea.
That’s my true gift in this particular column, and the talent that I’m working on in this particular moment. I want to give you this idea of looking for things together and about being in the moment together, and I want it to be your idea now, to go and share with someone else, and then to let it be their idea to share, too.
It’s just like your parents said: Don’t just sit there on your behind watching TV all day, get outside and play with the other kids. You’ll never know what talents you’ve got until you share them.
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