Gather ye rosebuds

Another exhausting day dealing with the seemingly endless minutiae of running a business. I need a PA. My PA would probably also need a PA at this point. So anyway, I was in full whinge-mode as I walked to the High Street to get a newspaper. The roads leading to that street were all blocked off with police cars, an ambulance was parked on the pavement and there were lots of policemen re-directing the traffic away. The local Green was cordoned off and the air ambulance I had seen flying overhead 10 minutes before had landed on the Green.

As far as I could understand it, someone had either been badly injured in, or by the bus that was parked in the middle of the road. That there had been such a serious accident was bad enough; what was particularly upsetting was that the air ambulance and the road ambulance were stationary. That cannot be good news. I mean, ideally they both ought to be speeding away, because if they are not, what does that mean? I hope the poor victim was being stabilised in the road ambulance before being flown to hospital.I pray he/she makes a full and speedy recovery. It put the day in perspective– that person left their home this morning with no intimation of what was to come. The vase in the picture above is in the Met museum in New York. It is unattributed, but someone made it many centuries ago. Our work may or may not endure for that length of time, but we all leave invisible, indelible footsteps. So, gather ye rosebuds while ye may, be kind to those around you, forgive your enemies. I wish you all a whole bunch of ‘laters’ that stretch out for years to come.