I´m very proud to present another collaboration that combines the wonderful words of my dear friend and writer Syeda with one of my drawings! 🙂
The Wise Age
Standing in the alley
I watch them play around
Little kids whom I saw
Puking in their mother’s arms.
I watch the little hands
That held mine and learnt to walk
Today cross their ways past me hastily
Avoiding me, unwilling to acknowledge.
These old wrinkly hands and face
Are not something I would want to lose
They have come to be, after all
The wars and struggles I’ve fought.
They are the marks of my victory
Of having emerged out of the abyss.
-by Syeda Faiza Rasheed
Great portrait, Sarah. Hope you are feeling better.
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Thank you so much, Inese! 🙂
Sadly my eye hasn´t much improved yet, the wound has opened twice again in the last week 😦 but I won´t lose hope that it will be better someday…
Have a lovely week, my dear friend! xxxxx
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Oh that’s so very bad! Eat carrots and all stuff that is good for eyes and skin. Sending you the thoughts of healing! xxxx
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Thank you, Inese! I´ll do that! 🙂 Luckily I rather like carrots 😉
Have a very lovely weekend, dear! xxxxxxxxx ❤
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my goodness – you have probs with your eyes yet you draw so well 🙂
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Haha! Thank you, but I fear I have to confess that I did this drawing a couple of weeks before 😉 Can´t really do anything creative at the moment… 😦
Wish you a lovely week! xxx
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The poem reflections are beautiful, along with the man who is elderly, wise and handsome, shows such humble opinions. 🙂
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Thank you sooo much, Robin, for your very lovely comment!!! 🙂 It´s always such a pleasure to work together with my friend Syeda, as we seem to read each other´s mind 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend! xxxxx
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Sarah, so happy my comments made you happy, dear. ❤
I had cataract surgery on my right eye yesterday and am up at my Mom's senior living apt, recuperating. 🙂 It was rather normal procedure, but had my blood pressure plummet to 72/35.
They panicked and I could feel myself "fainting" on the table.
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Hi Robin, I´ve been thinking of you and am so glad everything went well with your surgery (apart from your blood pressure plummeting – I always have the same when I´m visiting the dentist 😉 they´ve gotten quite used to me nearly fainting after getting the anesthetic 😉 ).
Does the cataract also affect your left eye? Hope you´re recuperating well and fast and have a lovely time with your Mom 🙂
Wish you a wonderful week! xxxxx
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Marvelous collab again! 🙂
XxX
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Thank you very much, Patty! 😄 xxxxx
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A great collaboration!
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Thank you so much, Sarah! 😄
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Lovely marriage of creative forms Sarah. Your drawing really captures the spirit of the poem. Hope you have a great week. Xxxx
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Thank you soooo much, Su!!! 🙂 I´m glad you like it! Wish you a beautiful and happy day! xxxxx
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lovely, just lovely.
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Thank you very much!! 🙂
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The poem and the picture go well together. The part about the wrinkles not being something he’d want to lose reminds me of my mother. She often says, “I’ve earned every grey hair. I’ve earned every wrinkle.”
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Thank you very much, Bun!!! 🙂
I love that your mother thinks like that! Too many people seem to be obsessed by staying young forever. I always think that it´s staying young inside is so much more important than looking young. Getting old is a privilege and we should all feel as proud of the signs of it as your mother does – she seems so be a very wise lady indeed!
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Thank you. I’ve never thought of growing old as a privilege before, but of course, you’re right. I’d certainly rather have the opportunity than not have it. 😀
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Exactly 🙂
Have a beautiful day, Bun! 😀
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Thank you and you too! 😀
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Wow! Such expression and a story of a life lived in the face. And a sweet combination of art and poetry.
Happy Sunday (or Monday for you possibly?) to you, lovely.
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Thank you so much, Melissa!!! 🙂
Hope everything is fine with you and wish you a very lovely week! Enjoy the crisp autumn leaves and make a sketch or two of them for me 😀 Love, Sarah xxxxx
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Great collaboration of the two great works!
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Thank you sooo much!! 🙂 xxxxx
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Reblogged this on This is my life! and commented:
Just when I feel, I’m running out of thoughts, my dearest friend Sarah comes and wakes me from my slumber. Here’s what I wrote for the wonderful drawing she shared with me!!
Hope you’ll like it!
Lots of love and best wishes. . .
Syeda
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Awww – I´m sooooo happy about our renewed combined artistic endeavour, my sweet Syeda!!! So, so very happy 😀
Lots of love!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ❤
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It is always wonderful to join you my dear friend. Very happy I could do something of this for you! But worried too, please do take care of yourself. 🙂
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Very nice Sarah and Syeda! 🙂
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Thank you so much, Terry! I appreciate you very much! Have a very happy and lovely day!!! 🙂 xxxxx
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Kudos to both of you…The drawing and poem are both lovely.
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Thank you so much, Chris!!! 🙂
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nice pairing of talents- wonderful.
have a great week miss G
🙂
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Thank you very much, Yvette!!! 🙂 Have a wonderul week too!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ❤
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💕😊🎶☀️
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Wonderfully expressive poem, and your drawing is a great compliment to it.
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Thank you soooo much!!! You really made my day! 😀 Wish you a very beautiful week!
P.S. So sorry for not having visited your blog in a while, I still got problems with my sight which makes it difficult to read… but I promise to come and visit as soon as I can!!
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No worries, get well soon. 🙂
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Thank you!! I´ll try! 😀
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