The Spindle Song

I am soo in love with this poem right now :-) I came across it in a beautiful old copy of Scott's poetry that I found at a used book shop here... It's called The Spindle Song.

Twist ye, twine ye! even so
Mingle shades of joy and woe,
Hope and fear, and peace, and strife,
In the thread of human life.

While the mystic twist is spinning,
And the infant's life beginning,
Dimly seem though twilight bending,
Lo, what varied shapes attending!

Passions wild, and follies vain,
Pleasures soon exchanged for pain;
Doubt, and jealousy, and fear,
In the magic dance appear.

Now they wax, and now they dwindle,
Whirling with the whirling spindle.
Twist ye, twine ye! even so
Mingle human bliss and woe.

-Sir Walter Scott

My Beautiful Week

Bonjour!

This week has been epically fantastic, if not tremendously exhausting.
I went to a Wildfire (part of Kings Kids) weekend up in Cornwall with my parents and some of my friends from the Lodge. There were about 70 of us there, the girls sleeping inside and the boys outside in tents.
It's always fun having only one shower for 70 people.

I actually can't even believe how amazingly stunning Cornwall is. The rolling hills and endless forests constantly took my breath away. In a town we went to several times, Looe, there is this little confined walking path, that is like a little splinter of heaven. The walls of it were earth, covered in every kind of green and living thing native to England. There were masses of ferns and ivy; mosses and little flowers were creeping up it in their search to find the sun... The sky was hidden by the boughs of trees that protected it from unwanted eyes.
In short, I was thunderstruck by the sheer beauty of the land that surrounded me.
The midlands where I live, are practically planes. The ground is so utterly horizontal that from our flat you can see the town a mile away.
I've been feeling so deprived of any sort of natural elevation, I've been longing for just a glimpse of a cloud reaching-peak or a grassy hillside... And, as I have said, my wishes were fulfilled this weekend :-)

But yes, the camp. It was a really good time to come together with youth from around the UK, make new friends, worship God and do some outreach in the local area. I definitely needed some time to get away from the routine here at the lodge to re-connect with God and get closer to my friends.
I've recently found out that I actually can't function right unless I have close friends, that I know won't leave me anytime soon. I was starting to fall apart at the seams when all of my friends were on DTS, and left we within two months of becoming my friend. I actually cannot handle losing people I love so often.
I need to write a full blog about my friends here, and bit of a transition I am going through in my mind right now, that will seriously effect my thoughts on my entire life.
But at the moment I need to do other things... So adieu :-) Have the loveliest day you have ever had in your entire life.

Abigail

Hello, how are you?

So, this could be interesting. I am in the mood to type a lot, really fast, but at the moment I have fake nails on, making typing extremely difficult. Well, here goes.

Hello my lovelies! How goes it where you are?

I feel like a lot has been happening around here, but now that I look back on it, that's not necessarily true... For the last few months I have been spending a whole lot of time in the Lodge, hanging out with my beautiful friends every afternoon and night. It has been amazing to finally have really close friends that I can share my life with :-D I've missed that sooo much for the past few years.

Sadly though, about two weeks ago one of my best friends, Nathan, had to go back to California. That has really sucked, and I miss him to bits.
I have been pretty stressed lately about some personal things that I'm working out with God, and have consequently been becoming my old hermit self again - Ah! This is not good. So I'm trying to get past that as well. Really just working through a whole lot lately,...
So yeah. What has you month been like so far? I want to catch up with everyone, so please write me :-) Adieu for now m'dears. Another time...

Abbey

Once Upon a Lonely Hour

I wrote this poem a few months back when I was really lonely. I don't feel like this anymore, but I figured I might as well post it on here anyhow. So here it issss;

I walk the night all by myself. Alone, the night I walk behind. I sing the stars out of the sky. I walk alone, all by myself. I'll leave the world to find my way.
Alone at night I'll slay the sky. I wander alone, in the forests I'll go, around the silv'r moon I'll roam. In the shadows of the trees, unspoken sorrows at your feet.
The wind decries the scattered tears, the icy mountains here below. I filled my heart up to the brim with melancholic scenes.
Corin, Corin, times are grim, sell the water, sell the gin. The mutterings of a twisted mind, the hart carved shadings intertwined. I have no meaning, I have no soul, some have spoken I'm not real at all. I hear the whisperings of the Earth, my guardian angel, in the dirt.
The trees have spoken, muddy tears, a wind unbroken through the years. I walk alone, all on my own, no spears will guard my golden home, no sparrows sing of lonesome roads. The sword unsheathed my bitter hopes,
but all I need is black with coal. Here in the ground, I found her lay, atop the roots, in the leaves you say. The darkened branches all lined with gray, have somehow got their hold on me. All alone I am tonight, with my mother - the whole world bright. The path is chosen; written in stone, for together we are all alone, on dark paths wander, through branches green we stream, through cold glistening raptures, I only can sing All alone, all alone, by myself I'll wander out life.

MY Nature. I claim it.

The snow chilled raindrops caress my sun-forsaken face, the feathery grass bows under my feet as subjects to a king. The frigid sun-rays sing to my spirit in the sonorous tones of autumn. Tree bows smother me with my adoration as I lay beneath them in my victorious freedom. Here in my aloneness, I am surrounded by my loves. The red-gold earth, seen only when looked for through her veil of green, the branches of a willow; a Celtic knot of deepest tones on an easel of cerulean sky. My Nature rules the earth in unadulterated glory, unchanging and unrelenting.

First Etsy Post!

Lookkkk! I just posted a pair of handwarmers on Etsy.com I am very happy that I finally did it, as I've been trying to get around to listing something for about 1 year now :-) Yay! Take a look and tell me what you think :-D

http://www.etsy.com/listing/71382539/long-upcycled-plum-marbled-armwarmers

Hello

Hey there, blog. So, I haven't written in a while. Sorry about that. I guess I've just been going through a bit of a crazy time personally, and haven't really felt like writing on here, so yeah. How's life? I swear I will post something longer than this and a lot more interesting soon... Have a lovely day and a beautiful life :-) And a less emotional month than I've been having. Adieu, xx.
Abbey