Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Solitude
Hours and hours drift lazily past
No sounds from the outside are heard
Sleeping, waking and sleeping more
Mulling over questions of life and death
Friendships, relationships, finances, health
Listening for signs of interruptions:
Rain tapping on the old glass window
The wind teasing the letter box to open
The cars swishing past at speed.
Days drift into one, and I am alone
With my thoughts, my fears and dreams
I find it surprisingly necessary to my well-being
To contemplate all that is past and to come
To learn more of myself in these times
Than if I had not stopped to notice.
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About the Book
“Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness” is a personal collection of poems written as the author’s private thoughts on love and life when she was in her early teens and continued writing over the next twenty years. The poetry is an expression of all the fears, joys, disappointments and exhilaration that most teenage, twenty and thirty-something’s feel. As an accumulation of private thoughts that were not written for publication, the book lifts a corner of the mask that we all wear as a public façade. That is why it is so easy to relate to. Dip into any of the pages here and you will find some connection to the words and the feelings they conjure up. You’ve been there… that’s how it felt… a “that could be me!” moment. Curl up with “Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness”, put on some music, pour yourself a glass of wine and enjoy!
About the Author
Valerie Jones is a remarkable woman, leaving school at sixteen she turned a youth trainee job into a lifetime career, opening her own business six years ago.
By way of relaxation, during the same period, she studied and became fluent in Spanish, travelled as far and as often as her business commitments would permit, entered into the property development field, and made major improvements to her culinary and dancing skills! Energetic is the word that comes to mind.
Highly independent and slightly addicted to the good things in life, Val works hard and plays even harder, balancing family, friends, study, business and travel in a whirlwind of activity.
Friends are counted in scores and acquaintances in thousands. All have benefited at some time or other from the thoughtful insight that Val brings to their relationship, her unrestrained optimism, and her constant, sometimes quirky, sense of humour.
She started committing her private thoughts to paper in her early teens and brings the same energy, vivacity and sensitivity to her poetry as she does to everything else in her life.