Resolution and Independence...

... so titled for bringing to mind lines of
Wordsworth's poem so named.
A smiling subject now after cheerful
conversation but on first appearance it
seemed in the Poet's words " A more than
human weight upon his frame had cast."
He spoke of happy holiday times in years
gone by in a campervan travelling here and
there but recently his wife had died of a
heart infection in her late forties. He was
now left with an elderly mother and sister
in poor health. There was comfort to be had
in roaming from place to place and he told
of travelling from Scotland yesterday. He had
spent the night in the car and three plump
sausages were sizzling away and a pan of
baked beans alongside with egg waiting in the
wings to celebrate a new day. Wordsworth's
poem with slight amendment concludes with
the lines -
" I could have laughed myself to scorn to
find in that lonely Man so firm a mind"
An appraisal very fitting to this encounter.