Here is the great Dorothy Parker's Inventory:
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
And here is mine:
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Italy, internet, doggies, bons mots.
Four be the things I’d been better without:
Alcohol, credit cards, Welshmen, my pout.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Motherhood, sense, a numerical brain.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Friendship, rebellion and pies in the sky.
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ReplyDeleteGreat poetry and Simone looks so cute!
That is SO good - and wise! What a cutie pie you were - and still are! LOL
ReplyDeleteHi, Betty. Oui, c'est moi! Thanks from Simi and me.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great list, thanks for sharing. Congratulations on your birthday, Pat!
ReplyDeleteWonderful! particularly the bit about Welshmen.....
ReplyDeleteYou knock Dorothy into a cocked hat Welshcakes - wise and witty
ReplyDeleteI suppose Simi is just waiting until the party begins. Your version of an inventory is spot on with the internet!
ReplyDeleteBuon Natale WL!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! Hope I'm not too late.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful post. Let's hope you find a nice Italian man to scupper your rhyme ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh, your version is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteA very Happy Birthday to you! I loved your list, especially "friendship, rebellion and pies in the sky"...
ReplyDeleteLove it, and the photo is sooo cute:-)
ReplyDeleteIts NOT your birthday yet..!!
Marvellous stuff Pat.
ReplyDeleteVery many many Happy Returns. xx
What a pretty little girl too.
Love to you and darling Simi,
Di.xx
Puurr puuurrrr...Chloe.xxx
Your list is delightful and, of course, you'll have it all!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Lady Limoncello!
ReplyDeleteAnd all the best for the next decade(s).
Happy Birthday :-)
ReplyDeleteI love your take on the Doroty Parker. Long may you keep the final three
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday when it comes or if it has. Finally, you have (will have) grown up - time to have some fun (and that is one exceedingly cute dog that you have).
ReplyDeleteYou are kind, Leslie. Thanks, fullet. Got a few days to go, yet. Hello, Kitchen Queen and thank you. Thank you, dear Sally. Hi, Rowena. Simi is very excited! Grazie, WW. Hi, Lucia. No, it's not yet. Just getting ready for it! You are kind, Ellee. I'd be happy to be scuppered! Thank you, Saretta. Thanks, Michelle. GLad you liked it. Thanks, Anne. I'm just having a long run-up to it, like the Queen! Thank you, dear Trubes. A while to go yet. Love to you and dear Chloe from Simi and me x woof! You are kind, Carmen. Thank you, Sean. Not quite there yet. Thanks, Cherie. Thanks, jams. Glad you like them. Thank you, Andrew. Oh, I hope I don't grow up! Simi is delighted that you like her. She is my world.
ReplyDelete"She is my world"...
ReplyDeleteAnd I am sure you are hers. I find your adventures in Sicily rather inspiring actually, as a 54 year "old man" (according to many people around me) who has at times, recently, felt the years weigh heavily on his shoulders. Time to look forward again, I have decided. Ta!
Happy Birthday! That sweet little girl, who is still in your heart, deserves that cute friend, and the best of everything for years to come. It's such a pleasure to visit you.:)
ReplyDeleteHi, Andrew. Don't let others make you feel old. You are what you are in your heart. I'm about 16 and just as daft as I was then! Yes, time to look forward.
ReplyDeleteYou are very kind, Claudia. Thank you.