We want you to stay

This year, as well as celebrating Shakespeare's birthday, watching the World Cup in Brazil, opening the wounds of the terrible tragedy that was The First World War, there will be the Referendum for Scottish Independence.

Watching David Cameron plead, "We want you to stay" to the Scots, was quite moving. Isn't that what we all want to hear? "Please don't go", is a sign that you are really wanted. It takes a lot of courage to say that to someone. You are showing how vulnerable you are and how much you need them, how much you would miss them.

I am not very informed of all the pros and cons of Scottish Independence but it does feel like we would all be better off sticking together. Perhaps they need to know they are really wanted and needed.

It's not Burns Night until January 25th  but I'll write out this poem by him today, because it seems appropriate talking about the Scottish Independent vote:

Ellisland Farm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Life is but a day at most,
Sprung from night, in darkness lost:
Hope not sunshine every hour,
Fear not clouds will always lour.
Happiness is but a name,
Make content and ease thy aim ...
(Written in Friars' Carse Hermitage, 1788)




Robert Burns knew that the secret of a good life is to try to be contented, to take life as it comes rather than making demands on it.