The Smallest of Them All

It's been a very cold day here in Canberra.  I do think Canberra gets a bit of bad press for being a really, really cold place.  It is one of the hottest places in the country in the summer!  As there is no coast like Sydney, we rarely get a sea breeze on summer nights and it can generally be very hot.  I would say it has been a mild winter here so far, but today is really cold.  Time for a jumper and coat indeed!

The wind and the cold didn't stop me from walking this morning though, I was one of only a very few at 7am willing to brave the wild weather.  What fun it is to walk through wild weather!  Sometimes I pretend I am a lone traveller, on a quest, I've been trekking for days on a journey to save the world - maybe I have the one ring!

I wrote a song about The Lord Of The Rings, I wrote it from Frodo's perspective;

The Smallest of Them All...

Mechelle Tully

Lonely nights and early mornings,

Just time enough before I face the trail again,

It's cold and hard and never ending...

I've a brother to my right, and others at the other side

but I'm alone, only I hold the key...

How could you, the smallest of them all,

take on this path with courage?

A journey still unknown, but all you know,

is that it's coming for you...

And still you hold it tight, 

The object of desire that evil hunts-

and it's ugly and it's oh, so beautiful, all at once...

The night is cold and it will get colder,

Always looking over my shoulder,

tomorrow this time, I don't know if I'll be living or dying!

And men have come with hands to lend, 

but I don't know which ones are my friends-

since I have something they all want...

How could you, the smallest of them all,

take on this path with courage?

A journey still unknown, but all you know,

Is they're coming for you...

Still you hold it tight,

The object of desire that evil, wants!

and it's ugly and it's oh, so beautiful, all at once...

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Shell xx