Does “thinking” really make something so? What about Belief? The key to health is Belief. Add will and Fight, I mean when I’m down to my apparent last out now, awoken in the night without my breath, surely dying... I become the boxer fighting against the ropes because I have looked down the death barrel as far as I could to realize there is only life. Fight for it, starting with waking up, and realizing that “you’re sick” can be a lie. You’re alive today is a great truth. This poem’s today’s high-five, reaching out to tomorrow. I sure hope it finds you well.
Bill Watkins was born in Birmingham, England, to a Welsh/Irish family in 1950. His bilingual parents were notable traditional singers. Having learned to play the tin whistle, fiddle, guitar, banjo and mandolin at an early age, Bill is also an accomplished singer/songwriter whose most famous ditty, The Errant Apprentice, has been recorded worldwide. Now living in Minneapolis, he serves as the cultural ambassador at Merlin's Rest Pub. Bills company, Keltcom LLC, designs and builds Irish and British Isles pubs, repairs vintage radio equipment and makes kilts.