Post by Ken Lightbody

BEGRUDGEMENT Begrudgement, it's a harsh judgement on others for being successful - Him? he's a one-hit wonder, a flash in the pan Her? she's mutton dressed up as lamb. Don't make people feel small, wee buns or potatoes, encourage your country mouse to grow like a field of wheat or corn and then you'll see miracles. Over in Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh was writing his poems - he's a green fool, not a patch on Yeats, some people can't see past the Sligo man's Sailing to Byzantium or Ben Bulben always at work in the stony green fields and public house, the fine art of begrudgement. Sometimes, the beautiful dreamer and the hard-headed realist are one and the same gentleman, that's when we get our William Shakespeare, our Robert Burns, our Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for it's common sense and the imagination that make a man inspired and give him vision - a Drunk Man looks at the Thistle, thank you, Hugh MacDiarmid! Am I right or sadly mistaken, isn't Beethoven's Fur Elise the most beautiful piano piece ever written?