An hour out of my day

A few weeks ago on another blog I posted this
and from this the general store blog began to manifest....


22.05.09 3:00

Jacq>E

I have noticed that a few people have had a few difficult and crappy days of late.

So as a kind of gesture toward hanging in there...
I want to blog the first hour of my day at
The Elwood General Store
on Tuesday:

19.05.09 4:04
Blah Blah Blah.. God i
have sooo much to
talk/tell you! You?
L>E

8:30am:
The Milk delivery man comes in beaming about the
beautiful day, comments on the music I have playing
and together we sing along to the next line in the song..
" Will you bend or will you break..."
(both the shitest singers you ever did hear..)
and then he wishes me a not too busy and enjoyable rest of the day

We have never met before.

8:50am:
Dspa comes in to buy tofu
She and her Husband have just adopted two gorgeous girls
A who is 6 and C who is 8. They have 6 other siblings with other
carers. I ask her how the girls are doing and she laughs and says
taking a very tired breath, " They teach me every day how much stuff I have
buried and not wanted to face. Not one of us are perfect, not one of us
on the planet, but you should see how wonderful my girls are.
I just love them. They're perfect."

9:00am:
An old man, who is quite tall with hands like a cauliflower
and the most gentlest of eyes asks very softly if I have
a cream for tired feet. I give him a cream made of mixture of calendula, paw paw
and shea butter, we both agree his feet will be as 'soft as a babies bottom'
and he giggles like an 8 year old boy.

9:10am
A woman buys two bags of peppermint leaf and licorice leaves and leans over
the counter and says, " gimee some thyme love" so I say,
"well I got ten minutes, what is it you want to tell me!"
and she laughs and laughs and laughs..then we talk tea blends for ten mins
quite earnestly.

9:20am
S comes in, she has just put down
her cat and has been sad.
She has taken a day of work,
" my boss is a bit of a megalomaniac
but he is quite understanding with his
bipolar employees. You know actually
I'm so grateful I can express my
grief, I'm off the Valium, I just wanted to come
in and say thank you for listening and preying for J(her cat)
as he goes to the after life"

9:30am
and in comes D
partner to N, both actors ( who quite honestly
are, if we had favorites, the shops favorite couple)
They are always smiling anyway, gush gush..
He has a weepy eye, its been a tough week..
I have eyebright in capsule form but
"the caps just seem like the long way round, if you know what i mean!"
So a herb mix of chamomile and eyebright for an eye bath
do the trick..

9:31
I take a sip of mexican coffee and
sing to myself " will you rize or will you
fall..........will you bend or will you break,
will you give or will you take.....
while you're sleeping cold tonight?"


and the day goes on.......

23.05.09 4:23

Jacq>E

(P.S its a giant avocado)