From the research files, happed upon earlier while cleaning up, this Scottish saying: Be happy, child, for you’re a long time dead.
It sounds like something my father might’ve said. Is there an Irish corollary, I wonder?
Pattern and Outrage : Dee Mallon
cloth, justice, writing, and food
I know this long time dead saying too. I thought my grandmother Isabel. Lol.
Was she Irish
what an odd saying my Mom has a lot of Irish & a bit of Scotch in her but have never heard that one nor can fathom it
I think it simply means life is fleeting, don’t waste it being miserable.
thanks for the clarificartion Dee I was taking it literally as advice to a long dead child!
clarification… my mind’s a mess this week…
Why a mess? It was the kind of typo that I read over and didn’t notice.
I may have ODed on seeing so much good art!
Well that’s a nice way to b come a little off kilter!