About Linnetsong

Linnetsong is single and is seeking males for friendship or a serious relationship.

I’m a dreamer and a poet, but I’ve done little of either lately. Being very low in vitamin B12, while mired in a maths degree is not a winning combination - I sought the beautiful sunset in the jumble of numbers promised me by the quirky lecturer, but found only templates and deadlines, although my final project was due in on my late friend’s birthday, and my final module included the topic of Latin squares, of which sudoku - a shared pastime of my late friend’s and mine - is an example, so that was beautiful and spiritual, at least. I’ll find out how I’ve done near the end of July.*

Life is coming back to me. I hope that will continue after I finish the 8-week course of vitamin B12 tablets in 6 days’ time! I was too tired and too swamped with maths study to do much of anything, but I’ve been responding to the urge just to go out and walk and walk, which kicked in about two weeks ago. This morning, the words “I can be long and good” popped into my head. I suddenly remembered the final words of a Native American blessing: “May your days be long and good upon the earth.”

Strangely (it won’t sound strange but it kinda is, to me), I’ve started eating the things I used to eat a few years ago. Deciding to stop eating them probably accounts for the B12 deficiency. Yesterday, I walked down a street I by chance recently found a video of myself (on youtube) walking down a few years ago, so I passed my former self on the road and did a swap with her - more a share, really: some of my wisdom for some of her vitality.

Later in the walk, I started thinking about the Camino de Santiago, as well as, in general, imagining fresh starts. Glasgow is not really my querencia. Anyway, as I continued walking, I spotted a small, shiny coin on the pavement. I picked it up and said: “Whatever country that coin is from, that’s where I’m going.” Wanting to prolong the suspense, I popped the coin straight in my pocket to examine later. I remembered it this morning. On one side, it says: “1 cent”; on the other, there is an image of the Sagrada Familia, and the word ‘España’. Just a coincidence? I wonder.

*Got a high 2.1 - yay! Not bad for the girl who was told by her maths teacher at school all those years ago not to set too much store by the grade A she got in her Higher prelim because she was better at Arts subjects. Way to demolish your confidence! Guess what, Miss - I rebuilt it! :-)