tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84817488733338780102024-03-06T06:06:36.832+00:00Tom Nelson's family blogThis blog has been created to allow Tom Nelson and his family and friends to share news and information from the UK, South Africa, and no doubt other far-flung corners of the worldTom Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653287954501484621noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-11580870355512107892011-07-05T15:06:00.001+01:002011-07-05T18:01:45.186+01:00BLOG for mom and dad<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8QRS2Aj51Jo0eNg3rccqYirnjrQd792rZ6h7Wvqndm7o2NIDIQ97LR9K0xu6rw7ApqixBYpF69PmHoGSvCTWEk7-bbDrfhcjuBsFIO0kK6xI8me-SDsPtQzCzqYBvTjhThQkNtbUmRs/s1600/IMG_2145.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8QRS2Aj51Jo0eNg3rccqYirnjrQd792rZ6h7Wvqndm7o2NIDIQ97LR9K0xu6rw7ApqixBYpF69PmHoGSvCTWEk7-bbDrfhcjuBsFIO0kK6xI8me-SDsPtQzCzqYBvTjhThQkNtbUmRs/s400/IMG_2145.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625907321905188514" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The next message you need is always right where you are (Ram Dass)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">If your life was a message, what message would that be? (Author unknown)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, which is: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">love, compassion and forgiveness... </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives (Dalai Lama)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Today I am writing a message for my mom and my dad. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dear Mom and Dad,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am sending you a little message across the miles to say that I wish I were with you both right now to look after you. But I am not. I am far away physically. But on another level – I am right there with you. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As Mom goes in to have her operation tonight, I will be will with her in my mind. Sending Reiki healing across the miles that separate us. I carry you both in my heart all the time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Close your eyes now and feel a long warm hug coming your way. I love you both very much.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">XXX</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span></span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-18890959291985993692011-06-17T18:42:00.001+01:002011-06-17T18:52:33.767+01:00Conclusion to 365 Days<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjeYWHm7nDPpmg4qpZ3qWkfyOvwEgr-zQ24yP9tw-_aptsIcdi_zxNYXGipYJ36tx0X50_JRHVoQToOVVvc4wdIjBEFLUxbEyjjEsjWIfIdwUXMWG1yDJ_2WYymufv4nKzxifvmKGj6BA/s1600/IMG_2094.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjeYWHm7nDPpmg4qpZ3qWkfyOvwEgr-zQ24yP9tw-_aptsIcdi_zxNYXGipYJ36tx0X50_JRHVoQToOVVvc4wdIjBEFLUxbEyjjEsjWIfIdwUXMWG1yDJ_2WYymufv4nKzxifvmKGj6BA/s400/IMG_2094.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619246872448427138" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank you for sharing this year of my life with me, through all the tearful moments, the rantings, the meanderings of the mind, my laughter. I send each of you Love, with all m y heart.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I recently read these words of wisdom: I conclude my 365 Day challenge (to myself) with them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy less. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences but less time. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgment; more experts yet more problems; more medicine but less wellness. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbour. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We've conquered outer space but not inner space. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We've done larger things but not better things. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We’ve cleaned up the air but polluted the soul. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We've conquered the atom but not our prejudice. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We write more but learn less. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We plan more but accomplish less. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We've learned to rush but not to wait. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever but we communicate less and less. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">These are the times of fast food and slow digestion, big men and small characters, steep profits and shallow relationships. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">These are the days of two incomes but more divorce; fancier houses but broken homes. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet to kill. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. It is a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose to either share this insight or to just hit delete. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Remember to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Remember to say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person will soon grow up and leave your side. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Remember - give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Remember to say "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment, for someday that person will not be there again. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Give time to love! </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Give time to speak! </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">And always remember: life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(George Carlin)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-22691975897399291312011-06-17T09:39:00.002+01:002011-06-17T18:41:59.593+01:00365 Days, Day 365<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzKM58f2Xq2Xp8pzX9IaFi09hAVSqTQ55spz-cnvbuAIRV1enuApnznzgokrzkPjEI8QVo5tstdv_JIiuTUa3Un_iwwNOPqe2fctB91e4rS7sLxJmUJbXMzyI2e2EuiojloOwhl9g4A4k/s1600/IMG_2104.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzKM58f2Xq2Xp8pzX9IaFi09hAVSqTQ55spz-cnvbuAIRV1enuApnznzgokrzkPjEI8QVo5tstdv_JIiuTUa3Un_iwwNOPqe2fctB91e4rS7sLxJmUJbXMzyI2e2EuiojloOwhl9g4A4k/s400/IMG_2104.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619245195110911122" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written (Jacques Rousseau)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Every love letter, every hug, every tender kiss, every flower picked, every consoling talk is my heart acting out all the love and kindness that overfills me.<span style=""> </span>I have other outlets -- gardening, motorcycle riding, cooking, sewing, poetry/spoken word, playing bass, exchanging letters and so on -- but my deeper connections with special people give me such an untouchable high and satisfaction. This is why I practice open relationships. It is not sexual validation that I'm searching for, but the mere act of giving, sharing, growing, inspiring, and loving creatively.<span style=""> </span>I almost feel as if I could not go on with life without these connections (Wendy-O Matik)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Over the years, I have given my English students the following task: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: Vivaldi;">Write a Love Letter to yourself.</span><span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: Vivaldi;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To give them credit, no student ever complained and said they couldn’t do it. Some wrote better, more insightful letters than others. It is a really difficult task though.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I decided to end off this blog with the same task: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: Vivaldi;">Write a Love Letter to yourself.</span><span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: Vivaldi;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My Dearest Deidré</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am writing this to express my gratitude for your acceptance; for your resolute belief in me even when I am been filled with doubts and sadness. There is a part of you that is a part of me that carries us through the difficult storms.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I respect your strength of character, sensing when someone needs comfort or nurturing and stepping in, with your sense of inner calm. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I love your childlike humour and the great delight you take in small things, which others may overlook. Your humour may not be to everyone’s taste, it is somewhat quirky – but it makes me smile.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I admire your acceptance of new circumstances; even though to you ‘Acceptance’ means Sacrifice. You have handled the last two years rather well. You do have great tenacity. I urge you to be aware of the Lessons to be learned…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For an older woman, you are rather gorgeous! I know you have to ‘work’ at looking good, in your own ‘stylish’ way. Keep on, girl: you are never too old to preen! Carry on slapping on the old mascara and lippy. Keep on wearing the heels: I love that about you! Do not relinquish your eccentricity: go way over-the-top! Make heads turn. What hair colour is next, my sweetheart?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">With love, I tell you that you have been brave in all your little endeavours. I know you get hurt and are disappointed when people or things don’t turn out the way you expect. Part of that is that you are an optimist and believe the best of everyone.<span style=""> </span>Part of it is because you are a gentle soul, perhaps too gentle for this world. It is precisely your gentleness that draws others to you: do not allow yourself to become inured to the harshness of life. Keep your sincerity and naivety. I love that quality in you. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I also love that you are willing to ‘receive’. You have a wonderful daughter, who looks out for you when you are falling; you accept her assistance with love and with the knowledge that her intentions are pure. Never be too proud to say that you are not coping. Your loved ones will be there to step in and carry you.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank you for all the times you have made me laugh out loud, or have been absolutely passionate about an experience, a moment. Thank you for sharing with me the intense sense of enchantment you get from seeing, hearing, experiencing creativity in all its forms. Your heartfelt immersion in the moment is addictive. I want to see more of that level of interaction with you.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I truly want to encourage you to spread your creative wings and take flight. We also both know that you are being called to the softer nurturing world out there: go and do your massage course – make it happen. Express your creativity through Art!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And I leave you now with the express wish that you will Dance more often.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Look after yourself, meditate and continue to be the gentle you I love.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Much love,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">D </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-17980586318379744002011-06-15T20:25:00.003+01:002011-06-16T09:54:44.835+01:00365 Days, Day 364<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2OEXo9jyaVDxS2O4p8Y3iZYQxVM3FkELjx3xNMBRuqA22yCSYAAh4hOgen0JEiO2Lb3ecphFmoT6h8N6nV4_z-5HmciSJhjnNTk9f9b8YO3fWIZaRRdZG7poNzTqNB8QaQ5T7UsugAWc/s1600/IMG_2124.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2OEXo9jyaVDxS2O4p8Y3iZYQxVM3FkELjx3xNMBRuqA22yCSYAAh4hOgen0JEiO2Lb3ecphFmoT6h8N6nV4_z-5HmciSJhjnNTk9f9b8YO3fWIZaRRdZG7poNzTqNB8QaQ5T7UsugAWc/s400/IMG_2124.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618530357226878866" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The experiences you draw to you, through the opening in the doorway of your soul... stay open... only as long as you do... (Marlise Karlin)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe (Daisaku Ikeda)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Just over a year of my life is represented in these blogs. I think it will be interesting to look back: perhaps in the form of a book. But I also look forward to new doorways that have yet to be opened.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I would really love some feedback from you to add to the blog/book on what you have thought of this blog. Every creative person needs positive encouragement: so many of us never quite believe we are good enough – ever in pursuit of perfection. At my advanced age I am still finding myself, or re-discovering myself in my Autumn Years.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My journey continues. One more blog to go on this 365 Day challenge…<span style="color: fuchsia;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <span style="font-family:Arial;"></span>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-54720710259859064122011-06-14T20:14:00.003+01:002011-06-14T21:03:15.326+01:00365 Days, Day 363<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnrkk4GkjCE7Nfr1goDTE4eRexOzw0n-nuG6jcJ-osOEEU17NnNPXlRi23zyCCFboh6LCQb5-a47GMfjcNcUpLwgQTlPbGGmcxZ5aRiYgYx8k4xziA7M3x74z6mGgRf6Z8c202CMbtXgQ/s1600/IMG_2114.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnrkk4GkjCE7Nfr1goDTE4eRexOzw0n-nuG6jcJ-osOEEU17NnNPXlRi23zyCCFboh6LCQb5-a47GMfjcNcUpLwgQTlPbGGmcxZ5aRiYgYx8k4xziA7M3x74z6mGgRf6Z8c202CMbtXgQ/s400/IMG_2114.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618166853719679890" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best (Harry Fosdick)<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Everyone is doing the best they can according to THEIR map of the world! (Author unknown)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Success is being the best you can be where you are right now (Yancey Grantham)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I can only do what I can do.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have to accept that. Getting myself anxious because I can’t do everything I planned to do in a day, is no longer an option. I will do my very best at what I undertake, and do (try to) it with love. My map of the world at the moment has many navigational routes. I am doing the best according to this map. I am making the most of my best. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I read this today: <i style="">As you think, so you are. Think the very best, and you will draw the very best to you</i>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Acceptance is very humbling at times. Accepting were we are, and that where we are, is exactly where we are meant to be. Navigating my map in my little ship, weathering the storms, relishing the calm and smooth. So my journey continues…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: fuchsia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: fuchsia;">[P.S. no-one responded to my blog request yesterday – for Words. I am beginning to doubt the existence of my readers, of my reality.]</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: fuchsia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-4492720236917817562011-06-13T18:24:00.005+01:002011-06-13T22:46:14.606+01:00365 Days, Day 362<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTiihkRNPYuHMOpAId9ofCDxxTbUaoocidGSHYXhiCipAZRaTu4SiNvRfcs4xwg-HW10JbqRnQbfAuKauSQY50XhM6HFrRNz056E7cakNBtXORSeennvCXaHPVsc9ni68hoEJslkBM20w/s1600/IMG_2060.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTiihkRNPYuHMOpAId9ofCDxxTbUaoocidGSHYXhiCipAZRaTu4SiNvRfcs4xwg-HW10JbqRnQbfAuKauSQY50XhM6HFrRNz056E7cakNBtXORSeennvCXaHPVsc9ni68hoEJslkBM20w/s400/IMG_2060.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617823301588818306" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Young.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Old.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Just words. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(George Burns)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace (Buddha)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth.<span style=""> </span>It's worth it.<span style=""> </span>What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being! (Richard Bach)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We have Words with which to communicate. Movements, gestures, looks. Our deeds speak volumes.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s not so much what we say, but how we say it. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It has been difficult for me to present a very public side of me with my words. I am essentially a private person. I have over the past year let you into my private life, some layers deeper than others. I have only a few days left. I would like some words from you, my readers: so I know you exist.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-87206056529821925612011-06-13T09:14:00.002+01:002011-06-13T10:49:23.912+01:00365 Days, Day 361<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2IGH3hZm-Os92rid0G_EOf019HtyZhe0e8oAcLVezVIh7wTLB9x6eWzmRTJfeQsPjHRCYOva1fMsnSMSJ4-Qxf7VzrzchBnp7WUsU2AL7HQfP0C2jRt2hCFV04w6-VoYbmGK_7ek8sY/s1600/IMG_2077.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2IGH3hZm-Os92rid0G_EOf019HtyZhe0e8oAcLVezVIh7wTLB9x6eWzmRTJfeQsPjHRCYOva1fMsnSMSJ4-Qxf7VzrzchBnp7WUsU2AL7HQfP0C2jRt2hCFV04w6-VoYbmGK_7ek8sY/s400/IMG_2077.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617615142249287602" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">No one day is like another, each moment has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are destroyed and new stars created (Paulo Coelho)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">When we are present in each moment, the past gently rolls up behind us and the future slowly unravels before us (Richard Levy)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Things to do while waiting on the side of the highway in the pouring rain</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You know how when driving on a highway, you often see these poor souls standing in the pouring rain next to their broken-down car – and you think, thank goodness that’s not me! Well this time it was us. Driving back from Birmingham – the journey should have taken 2 ½ hours; it took us 5 ½. When your car breaks down, you have to leave the vehicle and stand well away from the highway. It happened to be pouring with rain yesterday and the wind was howling. So there we were, having scarpered up the embankment, pressed against the wall under the bridge on the side of a noisy, busy highway, in the rain and the wind and the cold. It is actually very noisy – I hadn’t quite realised just how noisy – almost like being in a nightclub, with traffic noise instead of music though. And no alcohol. Actually Ada did mention that a hot toddy right then would be a good idea, or at least have one waiting for us when we got home.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Things to do while waiting on the side of the highway in the pouring rain:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Collect debris and create an instant mosaic art work. I collected shells! rusty metal, pebbles, stones, a broken Fanta cap, and something that looked like a metal jigsaw puzzle piece; And laid them out carefully, mosaic-ed together. Tom accidently stood on my artwork and destroyed it!</span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Count all the yellow cars (only two!) not counting all the AA vehicles, of which there were many! </span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Count all the horse boxes (two).</span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Have a competition between the cars that Ariél likes (Fiat 500) [right pocket] and the one I like (MG) [left pocket] – which featured the most. Right pocket won (5), with left pocket having only 3. At one stage it was neck-and-neck. </span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ice-cream trucks (only 1, thank goodness we couldn’t hear it – I have a ‘thing’ about ice-cream trucks).</span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Examine all the foliage – hence the little poppy in the picture. I also decided to use Nature’s facilities, and slid down the embankment in the bushes whilst trying to do this – not that any one noticed this.</span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span>Keep warm.</span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We were eventually rescued and after a bit of tinkering the AA man sent us on our way. Next time I think I will take the train.</span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-12949830179280779742011-06-11T20:28:00.003+01:002011-06-16T17:43:25.122+01:00365 Days, Day 360<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4VFct5sVpVyPAONOKKq74mkhpe6LEqXgkfaodNGCv1U731X8XDbvfa3zvHoQI_ig94S_lG9Bw6wD-ddFumbBlQAp0flm-DPpbYAxqAu0NMoXhYMm2Es2l42pk0fe6AHofUIUfF3VRG4M/s1600/IMG_1968.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4VFct5sVpVyPAONOKKq74mkhpe6LEqXgkfaodNGCv1U731X8XDbvfa3zvHoQI_ig94S_lG9Bw6wD-ddFumbBlQAp0flm-DPpbYAxqAu0NMoXhYMm2Es2l42pk0fe6AHofUIUfF3VRG4M/s400/IMG_1968.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617046943034267490" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon.<span style=""> </span>Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right."<span style=""> </span>But the child is right!<span style=""> </span>The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time (R. Buckminster Fuller)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Gather up your telegrams</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Your faded pictures, best laid plans</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Books and postcards, 45's</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Every sunset in the sky</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Carry with you maps and string, flashlights</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Friends who make you sing</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">And stars to help you find your place</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Music, hope and amazing grace</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Maybe what we leave</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Is nothing but a tangled little mystery</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Maybe what we take</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Is nothing that has ever had a name</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Mary Chapin Carpenter)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ariél decided to rinse out/use the dishwasher recently. She could not find the<span style=""> </span>proper detergent for the dishwasher, so she used some <i style="">Fairy</i> (our local version of Sunlight liquid). She started the dishwasher, came back a few minutes later to see volumes of bubbling pouring out of the dishwasher!<span style=""> </span><i style="">Keep Calm and Carry On</i>. What to do! Then she recalled how, when one has a bubble bath and one uses soap to wash, the bubbles disappear. So she went and got some Dove soap (this is starting to sound like washing powder advert!) and applied it to the bubbles! </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Clever girl.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Disclaimer: In reality this did not take place; it was a very vivid dream of mine.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-21417737754117185442011-06-10T20:58:00.001+01:002011-11-03T08:14:02.084+00:00An extra day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFOiscDAMgzGJKOvcpXEMQ2msIBHtZmrb6t_FANaAw6FnipjBHAY8RTc-v1_eHp-PFoDfvypzYJjg83FhlLa50jpQWK791x88sfGuwU1uRyZles1xcE3afKgs6GPt1ye0oFVerAPsFFY/s1600/IMG_2015.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFOiscDAMgzGJKOvcpXEMQ2msIBHtZmrb6t_FANaAw6FnipjBHAY8RTc-v1_eHp-PFoDfvypzYJjg83FhlLa50jpQWK791x88sfGuwU1uRyZles1xcE3afKgs6GPt1ye0oFVerAPsFFY/s400/IMG_2015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616683301411547698" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:78%;" >[Architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music (Friedrich von Schelling)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:78%;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:78%;" >The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value (Elizabeth Barber)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Architecture <b style="">is</b> music in space. I become quite excited by the lines, from, curves, reflections, angles that are used in buildings, both ancient and modern. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">London is a melange of architectural music, with toppling glass building cascading in front of medieval landmarks. The creativity in the modern buildings delights me. The environment plays a role in their aesthetics, where reflection carry on an organic line, create a new landscape.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I like the idea of nature being included in architecture. Diarmuid Gavin creates the most wonderful landscapes juxtaposing nature with man-made structures. I really used to enjoy the TV programmes he did with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, called Inside Out. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Aesthetic and reflective – both call<span style=""> </span>out to me…</span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-25597607522515367802011-06-09T20:11:00.003+01:002011-06-10T17:37:16.457+01:00365 Days, Day 359<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ebtOJroDaXnQOeZKxP1qo_gvfSqHBEyXNf35biEVwZS608d7HeJ31ten24sn3VPtJJu0jYkCawAW_sKTLiDqv0H0_NbuTonn5qyeynMrs5ZuZljVGdlNKGO33IqJTmM7kmzHSXYPYok/s1600/IMG_2002.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ebtOJroDaXnQOeZKxP1qo_gvfSqHBEyXNf35biEVwZS608d7HeJ31ten24sn3VPtJJu0jYkCawAW_sKTLiDqv0H0_NbuTonn5qyeynMrs5ZuZljVGdlNKGO33IqJTmM7kmzHSXYPYok/s400/IMG_2002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616300391309447906" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by (Thomas Berry)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">If you're like many of us, you've spent years trying to feel comfortable in your own skin and to figure out what to do with your life. This is your most important purpose: to fully move into the power of your authentic self and to discover how to put that power to work in the world. There's a reason why you are here and a special way to accomplish your role in the world. But so much of us feel a lack of clarity around all this. We feel out of touch with our true nature and aren't sure why (Jean Haner)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ariél and I have been throwing out ideas for what sort of business we could start together. She surprised me by saying we should start a catering business. She said, “You have to admit we are a-maz-ing cooks.” Hmm<span style=""> </span>hadn’t quite thought of that as one of my strengths [powers]. My interest is piqued. Tick-tock, tick-tock.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A movement is needed, into the power of my authentic self. What are my powers [strengths]? Tick-tock, tick-tock.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My friend Gill sent me a text today telling me why I am ‘perfect’:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“[You’re] a fab wife, mother and friend. Actress, artist and [you’re] inspiring too. You have great clothes sense and lovely hair. [You’re] terribly brave with the move and travelling. You have more talent in your little finger than most people have in their whole bodies”. Aw bless! This really made my day. Thank you Gill!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So what to do with all my powers [strengths]? How can I harness them to start a business? Tick-tock, tick-tock.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">At the moment I am trying very hard to work with love, as I sew the costumes (volunteer work). I, being me, insist on them being perfect and lined. Tick-tock, tick-tock.</span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-34610707675400981502011-06-08T21:00:00.000+01:002011-06-09T08:59:31.768+01:00365 Days, Day 358<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNWsBFZSusX7OjQqQKzmQx1gvpu8iag0sq5IPSyX1PwjWq_e6Asi6vO04nEenWLD8laZGaAuXH_aAqA0KUUljtwFOEVHSZvIUpgbSJcrc5kFgz9FLhpLuHtgKNaFF7kgZLEBeLkFT9Q4/s1600/IMG_2011.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNWsBFZSusX7OjQqQKzmQx1gvpu8iag0sq5IPSyX1PwjWq_e6Asi6vO04nEenWLD8laZGaAuXH_aAqA0KUUljtwFOEVHSZvIUpgbSJcrc5kFgz9FLhpLuHtgKNaFF7kgZLEBeLkFT9Q4/s400/IMG_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616125184842417890" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pcc1kXzLj9LlX4OVrRA9-2bkhXqn9bnkeXsbuhdpuPwDnTbWvdGNyHiKtKVV8I0FJmuQjsetyEyTcqQRKN1auU6L3R6ic66DLDI5DLzsAfjR2QuViF-k3o9zrpNYWCXWOq6uPVS5Lu8/s1600/IMG_2012.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pcc1kXzLj9LlX4OVrRA9-2bkhXqn9bnkeXsbuhdpuPwDnTbWvdGNyHiKtKVV8I0FJmuQjsetyEyTcqQRKN1auU6L3R6ic66DLDI5DLzsAfjR2QuViF-k3o9zrpNYWCXWOq6uPVS5Lu8/s400/IMG_2012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616123769251618642" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">'It's <i style="">very</i> provoking,' Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, 'to be called an egg - <i style="">very</i>!'</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">'I said you <i style="">looked</i> like an egg, Sir,' Alice gently explained.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Lewis Carroll)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life (E. B. White)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The image of an egg is loaded with symbolism. New beginnings, life, fertility… omelette… My train of thought took a slightly different path there for a moment, as my brain tends to do.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Soufflé: I remember making lemon soufflé with mom at home. Warm lemony syrupy goo. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Omelette: I have never made one. Tom makes the most delicious light omelettes.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s all I have to say right now. 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Look again at that dot.<span style=""> </span>That's here.<span style=""> </span>That's home.<span style=""> </span>That's us.<span style=""> </span>On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.<span style=""> </span>The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam (Carl Sagan)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Sitting still as stone watching - watching</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">People walking by you wondering why</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it - if they ever did</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">People in every direction</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">No words exchanged</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">No time to exchange</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">And all the little ants are marching</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Red and black antennas waving</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">They all do it the same</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We all do it the same way</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Dave Matthews)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">People-watching is quite fascinating. At times I weave stories about the people. Yesterday, in London, and then at the airport, there were just too many people to weave about, so I just watched. I photographed somewhat interesting people; well, that was my intention – but there were very few that fitted this category of “interesting”. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I noticed an interesting man in a suit, with dreadlocks (in his hair), but he seemed to be begging, so I did not photograph him. We came across him again later; he laid eyes on me and instead of asking me to put some money in his cup, he attempted to take my hand saying “Oh! I like you!” I avoided his hand and politely said, “Thank you,” as I continued walking. “No,” he insisted I really like you!” I did not dare engage with him anymore. So I walked away from a human encounter.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Another interesting character was a man I perceived to be American Indian. I might perhaps begin to weave a story about him. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sitting next to a little boy at the airport, waiting, waiting… He remarks to his granny that there are so many, TOO many people. I agreed with him: so many people, each with their own little lives, their own contexts, their own histories – all intermingling. If I could freeze frame that moment, they would be captured for a spilt second of time together. A multi-coloured, multi-media pastiche all layered over another.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Little fragments of conversations, little frieze frame images captured in my mind. So many people. TOO many people.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10pt;" > </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-31374115894191578232011-06-06T20:10:00.006+01:002011-06-07T10:23:04.927+01:00365 Days, Day 356<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6-uO1gjSjKHcDRAoCBWyj3-1mTPkbax8BZRAKivotQdq8hYshDlny8NooCNW3FdRSGSEHgQO7quA_HuY9pU0YVWVe8yTlCjo3XrwiUSkefQDpSMj0_xBp3G5scofSASLC8r-k25KJ3Yw/s1600/IMG_1887.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6-uO1gjSjKHcDRAoCBWyj3-1mTPkbax8BZRAKivotQdq8hYshDlny8NooCNW3FdRSGSEHgQO7quA_HuY9pU0YVWVe8yTlCjo3XrwiUSkefQDpSMj0_xBp3G5scofSASLC8r-k25KJ3Yw/s400/IMG_1887.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615193659801192146" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3hxMSeKv2rwW2ls2SByz62xCNzj6tu_Kx36STblb_C-8xgEaF-2mnYLD0fckdUKGHCToljrmPRF0ylPsJTDULE6ZNAwf4fvc9TozwgKMJi3bsG5BhLQDkjkIdVI24_3SLnjrep_N1ZUw/s1600/IMG_1930.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3hxMSeKv2rwW2ls2SByz62xCNzj6tu_Kx36STblb_C-8xgEaF-2mnYLD0fckdUKGHCToljrmPRF0ylPsJTDULE6ZNAwf4fvc9TozwgKMJi3bsG5BhLQDkjkIdVI24_3SLnjrep_N1ZUw/s400/IMG_1930.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615192984360493986" border="0" /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> </a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I read the C.S. Lewis quote on Nicki’s Facebook status recently and decided to use it as a starting point for a blog: so here we are. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sometimes pictures talk more than words. Sometimes other people’s words make more sense than my own, so today – the pictures and the quotes are doing the talking. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Miracles are a retelling, in small letters, of the very same story which is written across the whole world, in letters too large for some of us to see (C.S. Lewis)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">There is a bridge to the sky within your soul and a doorway to healing and peace within your heart. If we look inside and embrace our true essence we bless the source of life. See beyond your vision and you will find a garden of harmony and joy where every breath is a source of inspiration. If we dream new realities we will open ourselves to abundant blessings. Together we can create miracles! (Micheal Teal)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The first step in making room for miracles is to realize that whatever difficulty you are experiencing, you are only seeing a very small piece of the picture (Melissa Casas)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible (Neale Donald Walsch)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness (Mother Teresa)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-77668426548064107822011-06-05T19:08:00.003+01:002011-06-05T21:59:12.978+01:00365 Days, Day 355<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierjQ-4R-btZdsrmOyJNdkRfHSJYzDapPFQRoABITA0e4pUndInIzmgnLgQHylA_T7pyx0k0dQzNNgXENBnu42o2RDHUOG-yFYynrm_mWxtdD-dVmYlznYhAT7ivN25WlZp5btrdB-PWI/s1600/2011-05-271.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierjQ-4R-btZdsrmOyJNdkRfHSJYzDapPFQRoABITA0e4pUndInIzmgnLgQHylA_T7pyx0k0dQzNNgXENBnu42o2RDHUOG-yFYynrm_mWxtdD-dVmYlznYhAT7ivN25WlZp5btrdB-PWI/s400/2011-05-271.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614812639587157250" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing (Marc Chagall)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life... When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other... and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ... Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet fascinated attention, which the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way (Brenda Ueland)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The creative process is a process of surrender, not control (Julia Cameron)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lessons learned from this costume making experience</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I need to follow my nurturing path. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I need to be a nurturer. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I also need to be creative and make, from my own time and space. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have also realised that I am good at what I do – I am a perfectionist (which is not necessarily a good thing). </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In order to cope with stress, I need to be super-organised.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am too old to be part of someone else’s obsession – I need to create my own.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My home needs me.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have enjoyed exploring London (even the seedier parts) except when having to carry a heavy sewing machine (on the tubes and walking down into the seedier part of Camden)!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I would very much like to train in massage and aromatherapy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is SO much inside of me waiting to be set free – I need desperately to get the creative juices flowing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I need to dance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I need to be more sensual. <span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I need to surrender…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Something I read today: Ask others to name what they think is your most overlooked talent or character trait. Anyone care to respond?<br /></span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-46095345195626277812011-06-03T22:33:00.002+01:002011-06-03T22:37:12.580+01:00365 Days, Day 354<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8k4x7pCeZ8CD7T_B8j4LWfpcZKBp_fUN1EmgS6uktEldBYSP3JNStARAEnWQgIuSAscbEX1KIxYlYBB8PSQW_zq9sZheNhCnTP4Nm_oEN9EZLZd30KlDk1tG4yKNiBvZuVgJ3rtqaVm8/s1600/IMG_1922.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8k4x7pCeZ8CD7T_B8j4LWfpcZKBp_fUN1EmgS6uktEldBYSP3JNStARAEnWQgIuSAscbEX1KIxYlYBB8PSQW_zq9sZheNhCnTP4Nm_oEN9EZLZd30KlDk1tG4yKNiBvZuVgJ3rtqaVm8/s400/IMG_1922.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614110279482402226" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings (Abraham Maslow)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">In my next life I want to come back as one of my cats. They basically pretend we don't exist. They sit like two bumps on a log and watch us work for hours in the yard. They're probably wondering, along with the entire neighbourhood, why we work so hard in our garden and it still looks like hell (Annie Spiegelman)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Another day of work. I played music while I worked alone in the hall. It sounded a bit lame when some men came in to move sets, so I turned it off and worked in silence. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A highlight today was seeing, from the tube, as we passed a block of flats, a little white kitten perched on a chair in the window – basking in the sun.</span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-46506487920761964182011-06-02T20:43:00.002+01:002011-06-02T21:05:04.121+01:00365 Days, Day 353<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjyT8RsSapOxBn2wQJyffNlv9wOdgbAiPfwYg-KbVWplNo4o5A06KjPBSY9VniPBhvIp0dvcT4qT5h16-8iTQHLqVCNhP773ZcbYbSG4rPUProxdJIugCHIHBDSrPWfeZ_FzTDceqfUU/s1600/IMG_1890.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjyT8RsSapOxBn2wQJyffNlv9wOdgbAiPfwYg-KbVWplNo4o5A06KjPBSY9VniPBhvIp0dvcT4qT5h16-8iTQHLqVCNhP773ZcbYbSG4rPUProxdJIugCHIHBDSrPWfeZ_FzTDceqfUU/s400/IMG_1890.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613711286908115810" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Kissing is like drinking salted water, you drink and your thirst increases.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Chinese Proverb)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(French Proverb)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Author unknown)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I believe in pink.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I believe that laughter is the best calorie burner.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I believe in kissing, and kissing a lot.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Audrey Hepburn)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My favourite part of today, was at one of the many stations I waited on - a white feather floated down and kissed my cheek before fluttering to the ground. A message from my guardian angel.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Today was not as overwhelming as yesterday. Maybe because I prepared myself better. I fashioned a Reiki bubble around me. I bought material that I thought was suitable without consulting anyone – just went with my gut. I made my way back to the hall quietly and at an even pace. I designed and fashioned patterns for the garments. And cut them out. Working in my Reiki bubble space.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The feather was an acknowledgment kiss from my angel, saying: well done, you dealt with today. Keep going. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-33678156708946557482011-06-01T20:05:00.002+01:002011-06-01T20:14:17.131+01:00365 Days, Day 352<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVcWUfAO6T_RaQjhRK8yFtfJUmjgYKgZIN-wrSlXmUF4qXfXCVVomZuy4xyWHumKAdJlUNTPNiUTnp1B2uEb0FT0ItXX-KLbHpvmgxZKH9pWyH9N77_TfUvvxrQrYxgVp0qpiP1laO06k/s1600/IMG_1931.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVcWUfAO6T_RaQjhRK8yFtfJUmjgYKgZIN-wrSlXmUF4qXfXCVVomZuy4xyWHumKAdJlUNTPNiUTnp1B2uEb0FT0ItXX-KLbHpvmgxZKH9pWyH9N77_TfUvvxrQrYxgVp0qpiP1laO06k/s400/IMG_1931.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613329989360453538" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Most locked doors are in your mind (Harry Houdini)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I was in rehearsals, waiting behind a door to come out while a couple onstage were having a row. They started throwing furniture and a chair lodged in front of the door.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">My cue came and I could only get halfway in. I stopped and said, 'I can't get in. The chair's in the way.'</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">And the producer said, 'Use the difficulty.'</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I said, 'What do you mean?'</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">And he said, 'Well, if it's a drama [you're acting in], pick up the chair and smash it. If it's a comedy, fall over it.'</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">This idea stuck in my mind, and I taught it to my children -- that any situation in life that's negative, there is something positive you can do with it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Michael Caine)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I spent most of the day travelling around London looking for fabric. Not a very productive day. I think this new door is somewhat jammed or the re is a “chair” in the way. Will mull over the how to “use the difficulty”…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-44476058661830901662011-05-31T18:33:00.002+01:002011-05-31T19:10:42.241+01:00365 Days, Day 351<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9-NHRKg956SgjDtgry3jKSV4c_eO_IwkT8b44rZFkC0GRPJdADy9LwCvatSqJlR_S10zFZK8H2QXs78XODFavwU3YFjm_XGBxcX3FqRr0fy69Mn-lpicN_tgAR86jpP5cfbYlilehkQ/s1600/IMG_1905.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9-NHRKg956SgjDtgry3jKSV4c_eO_IwkT8b44rZFkC0GRPJdADy9LwCvatSqJlR_S10zFZK8H2QXs78XODFavwU3YFjm_XGBxcX3FqRr0fy69Mn-lpicN_tgAR86jpP5cfbYlilehkQ/s400/IMG_1905.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612937271652938770" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">To fly one must first shed the weights of doubt (Carlene Primus)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You were born with potential</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You were born with goodness and trust</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You were born with ideals and dreams</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You were born with greatness</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You were born with wings</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You are not meant for crawling, so don't</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You have wings</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Learn to use them, and fly</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Mevlana Rumi 1207 - 1273)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">A hunch is angel talk, and probably should not be ignored.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Heaven talks in snippets, not in speeches. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Angels whisper fast. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">They have to when they're flying around...</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Honour your Hints from Heaven. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">They could be giving you the best advice you ever had.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Neale Donald Walsch)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This statue by Albert Toft is part of The Hall of Memory in Centenary Square, Birmingham (which commemorates the 12,320 Birmingham citizens who died in World War I). There are four statues on the outside of the memorial representing Army, Navy, Air Force and Women's Services. From my quotes you can guess which this one represents.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I remember doing my matric final English speech on aviation and how it fascinated me. I am still somewhat attracted to flying, but these days helicopters of a military nature instil a passion within me. Past life…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Today I labelled myself as an ‘artist’. I felt like I was stirring my wings a little. Maybe if I shed the weights of my doubts (about being an artist), I will take off and fly!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-46318113420987470132011-05-30T18:53:00.002+01:002011-05-30T19:33:17.873+01:00365 Days, Day 350<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8At3R06mOYS9pKsGsK4ERPPH6gICK7pkDeXOpUnZk0mpE62hovrYNx6qdwt6kkAPCr8Li7HPQryKDdp03QQu1z1GuiB6RSgxBBODFXe5fAMv7A2ln0ie95NBMC7tRKfvTcpsfSTxPQlg/s1600/IMG_1919.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8At3R06mOYS9pKsGsK4ERPPH6gICK7pkDeXOpUnZk0mpE62hovrYNx6qdwt6kkAPCr8Li7HPQryKDdp03QQu1z1GuiB6RSgxBBODFXe5fAMv7A2ln0ie95NBMC7tRKfvTcpsfSTxPQlg/s400/IMG_1919.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612570148204813234" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I am interested in the body because it is the place where emotions are most directly registered. When you feel frightened, when you feel excited, happy, depressed, somehow the body registers it (Antony Gormley)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The impossible thing that I'm trying to do is accept that we live in the world of the visible but make it unsatisfactory enough that behind the visible is some other kind of potential that does not exist in the sculpture but exists in you the viewer (Antony Gormley)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The body is put together from these pieces of mould taken at a particular time. That time has been fragmented, broken apart and then remade, healed in some way (Antony Gormley)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Antony Gormley’s work has long fascinated me. His use of his own body in his art works, because it is practical and available, makes sense. His bodies/sculptures are scattered around the country. So it was with much delight that I discovered this one is Birmingham. It is called Iron: Man, and was meant to pay tribute to the traditional skills of the ‘Black Country’.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Seeing this work has inspired me to revisit the documentation of his art, which speaks of bodily sensation and memory and inhabiting a Space. Gormley’s work is often controversial, but is loaded with thought and intellect.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I enjoy the tension he creates in his bodies: leaning or suspending them, or placing them in the ever-changing waves on the beach. His work provokes thought.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have ideas in my head of creating clay torsos. But after being confronted with Gormley’s work again, I shall give each torso serious thought and a narrative before I commence working. I shall consider Time, creating, breaking down, fragmenting, re-creating; healing. Each work needs to go on a journey before it reaches completion. Documenting this journey will become part of the journey. The viewer needs to take over the journey and become part of its continuation. </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-75758433312250876342011-05-29T21:03:00.001+01:002011-05-29T21:08:11.040+01:00365 Days, Day 349<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_qemtaw1rIXxWSy_KcKVHsq_jkPthb2psCznlF3InyLrJiOIXo6NKVIA3QrXz7k5ghppOINdKBUaaI6N0UvIcCZHrrUnfhwF6auNrB-vj5DAyEbPZmlWBn2ev7GVwK1mwLTyT4EybYA/s1600/IMG_1935.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_qemtaw1rIXxWSy_KcKVHsq_jkPthb2psCznlF3InyLrJiOIXo6NKVIA3QrXz7k5ghppOINdKBUaaI6N0UvIcCZHrrUnfhwF6auNrB-vj5DAyEbPZmlWBn2ev7GVwK1mwLTyT4EybYA/s400/IMG_1935.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612232159469718882" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it....ashe (Babatunde Olatunji)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity (B.K.S. Iyengar)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The real beauty of realizing your true nature is in the freshness,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">peace and deep bodily relaxation which touches to the core of</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">your being, flows into your everyday life and bursts forth naturally</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">into blossoming from within itself. Without you 'doing' a thing</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">about any of it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">This is a beautiful and simple change of lifestyle.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">A lifestyle of letting go and living openhandedly, curled</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">up in the sunlit warmth on the lap of</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">the Divine - your heart</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Julie Sarah Powell)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Day out in Birmingham</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">visiting Kyle and Sarah. It was a day of sensory overload: with only snatches of the stimuli received being assimilated. Thoughts, images, words, sounds all overlapping. But a general feeling of warmth and contentment.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kyle and Sarah have created a lovely little home for themselves, they are happy and finding their feet. Slowly unfurling in their new environment. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">On walking back to their studio apartment, Sarah and I walked past a burned out building. Looking through the window I saw a pigeon perched on the window ledge. It was a little angel message: let go, unfurl, and the Divine will warm your heart. <span style=""> </span></span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-48335603301608698562011-05-28T18:53:00.003+01:002011-05-28T22:01:59.637+01:00365 Days, Day 348<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmTx2MpEBTJ22qRevvK6oNIJlBp59ltrjzCnoFoR-Uh4fubpqUStix-e9KgT7a-TQVzjQCClKCaueB6BvGQc0YqCSbjwT8wE3AG7CWb_20TtEvh4tqFJj2b3oe5QAjoYg3cpgr0k8voLY/s1600/IMG_1762.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmTx2MpEBTJ22qRevvK6oNIJlBp59ltrjzCnoFoR-Uh4fubpqUStix-e9KgT7a-TQVzjQCClKCaueB6BvGQc0YqCSbjwT8wE3AG7CWb_20TtEvh4tqFJj2b3oe5QAjoYg3cpgr0k8voLY/s400/IMG_1762.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611874265477715954" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself – consciously (Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">To liberate the human spirit we must embrace heightened consciousness and enhance the flow of positive energy. We are beings of light and energy, once we accept this truth our soul can soar with the angels (Micheal Teal)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time (Brenda Ueland) </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I was delighted by and amazed at the energy and talent of the students at the Youth Theatre in Camden today. I watched them sing (brilliantly - enjoyment tingled down my spine) and dance an urban dance and a jazz dance (I was entranced). As I watched them, I knew why they were there: keeping their creativity bubbling and boiling. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My role will be to make costumes for some of the cast. Being with creative people will enhance my flow of creative energy. I will become creative energy… </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-57958406040693903522011-05-27T20:55:00.002+01:002011-05-27T21:13:22.069+01:00365 Days, Day 347<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDxcspjg7i4rFism0QuYRGEZ7Z9p_YC5uvmcBZEFnTrfpkyZ8eca30dTXx_xprciPhgxQRTUNcXo5TWp3deB56vmkJvexxxBG8aGvU8V77jm6rkLMvTXuYIN0qfTd-3rljaE4PqJ2Pw8/s1600/_MG_1842.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDxcspjg7i4rFism0QuYRGEZ7Z9p_YC5uvmcBZEFnTrfpkyZ8eca30dTXx_xprciPhgxQRTUNcXo5TWp3deB56vmkJvexxxBG8aGvU8V77jm6rkLMvTXuYIN0qfTd-3rljaE4PqJ2Pw8/s400/_MG_1842.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611487768373137490" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you… you are - we all are - the beloved of the beloved, and in every moment, in every event of your life, the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is (Mevlana Rumi 1207 - 1273)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk (Raymond Inmon)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which you do not comprehend. Therefore I also say, ask of Nature that you may be one with her and she will whisper her secrets to you to the extent in which you are prepared to listen. Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her (Walter Russell)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A fast but long walk in the forest with Lilly today was good for my body. But I did not take the time to be with Nature or to listen to her. But I am making everything in me be an ‘ear’ – listening and picking up on whispers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tomorrow into the vibe and energy of London… what will I hear there? I will endeavour to hear the whisperings. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sometimes in between Nature and Life, the whispers seep through. Right now my soul needs to be stabilised, so it has withdrawn from the world to an extent: to find peace and stillness. I have been fighting the system, the world – thinking that I need to find a job, need to earn money, need to be useful, need to be perfect. Perhaps I need to be kinder to myself and realise that what I <b style="">think</b> is right for me, may not be. Maybe I should stop trying to fix everyone and everything and let myself heal first. I wouldn’t mind a good relaxing Reiki session…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Actually I don’t like airing my feelings like this – it is very hard because I keep thinking that you are going to read this and be concerned about my well-being. But it is just a churning of thoughts that would usually be in a Diary that no-one would read. Sometimes just expressing in words what I think is a process of healing. Making order out of the chaos. So when you read these words, tread very carefully for you are treading inside my head…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Listen to what is being whispered to you: take time to be still and really listen. Will you share your whisperings with me?</span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-92204716408217474402011-05-26T20:15:00.003+01:002011-05-27T18:25:47.085+01:00365 Days, Day 346<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprzRQBuLGv6mBBY0qqbaWbMdI480RyNIDlCIdU8LdbrF4hNsRHF6YQ93npsSulXcuFDh9Qc9bqcOvJDlYCI02HiWZ5T47rq56jt4klO0xQ1G01U5BEgzXLfSEiMGAxabLnaO-yCmdxv4/s1600/IMG_1853.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprzRQBuLGv6mBBY0qqbaWbMdI480RyNIDlCIdU8LdbrF4hNsRHF6YQ93npsSulXcuFDh9Qc9bqcOvJDlYCI02HiWZ5T47rq56jt4klO0xQ1G01U5BEgzXLfSEiMGAxabLnaO-yCmdxv4/s400/IMG_1853.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611106405287315586" border="0" /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> </a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Rules for Being Human</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">1 You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">2 You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or you may think them irrelevant and stupid. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">3 There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">4 A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then move on to the next lesson.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">5 Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">6 "There" is no better than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again look better than "here."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">7 Others are merely a mirror of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something that you love or hate about yourself.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">8 What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">9 Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">10 You will forget all this!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Harmony</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Embracing the Way</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">you become embraced</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Breathing gently </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">you become newborn</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Clearing your mind </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">you become clear</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Nurturing your children</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">you become impartial</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Opening your heart </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">you become accepted</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Accepting the world </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">you embrace the Way</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Bearing and nurturing</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Creating but not owning</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Giving without demanding</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">This is harmony</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style=""> </span>(Tao De Jing)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life (Krishnamurti)<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I found today’s quotes in an entirely unexpected place – not my usual-plethora-of-quotes-site – but from a church website! It is a long story, but basically I am going to see about a possible (unpaid) job at this church hall: making costumes for a Youth Theatre project. I am quite excited about this, because even though I won’t get paid, it will possibly open doors for a new venture…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So tomorrow after I have finished the poster for the next Barn production, I will look at the skies, read a little, dance and write a poem…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-47439657457878934482011-05-25T16:58:00.002+01:002011-05-25T22:08:32.514+01:00365 Days, Day 345<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinvzvbc_iFcyCVFex3mm1M0VVap_ITBiNQBOsznF4ekzF9azSVMg_q-k5Z0s80DYwMIWtUF4nBE04a5l58CfqBbWhOJSzXmJe_iWzPg451p0gq8d6SwGHajV1Pc8JZoVFMF6LyiWVKjuI/s1600/_MG_1839.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinvzvbc_iFcyCVFex3mm1M0VVap_ITBiNQBOsznF4ekzF9azSVMg_q-k5Z0s80DYwMIWtUF4nBE04a5l58CfqBbWhOJSzXmJe_iWzPg451p0gq8d6SwGHajV1Pc8JZoVFMF6LyiWVKjuI/s400/_MG_1839.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610696096790820130" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul (Rob Brezsny)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The Optimistic Frog Two frogs fell in a deep bowl, one was an optimistic soul, but the other took the gloomy view. "We shall drown," he cried without more adieu. So with a last despairing cry he flung up his legs and said good-bye. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Quoth the other frog with a merry grin, "I can't get out, but I won't give in; I'll just swim around till my strength is spent, Then will I die the more content." Bravely he swam till it would seem his struggles began to churn the cream. On top of the butter at last he stopped, and out of the bowl he gaily hopped. What of the moral? 'Tis easily found: If you can't hop out, keep swimming around (Author unknown)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am ‘swimming’, interpreting each experience as part of the ‘healing’ of my inner Goddess. Being ever optimistic. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I think life is easier if one is optimistic. It must be very hard dealing with each experience as high-rocky-insurmountable-mountain. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I will go on churning cream until the butter-making is done. </span></p>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481748873333878010.post-21131469818928001992011-05-24T19:49:00.003+01:002011-05-24T20:08:01.325+01:00365 Days, Day 344<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFbaHqTINMVD6nB2IEkQ3LodRS_9WcaMBHhplizSJlHhnjXkVEFZ-HkZr-VK7wSIJMKIRLHr5xpQl5vpFi4EW0SIe6HH4_wuwKUUL7-FR199cPY4-_cV3O1Y4r5yN8HNW-XP6FTkvvpM/s1600/_MG_1844.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFbaHqTINMVD6nB2IEkQ3LodRS_9WcaMBHhplizSJlHhnjXkVEFZ-HkZr-VK7wSIJMKIRLHr5xpQl5vpFi4EW0SIe6HH4_wuwKUUL7-FR199cPY4-_cV3O1Y4r5yN8HNW-XP6FTkvvpM/s400/_MG_1844.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610359744348166210" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson (Tom Bodett)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">Breathe Smile Be</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";">(Hikamiko)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe Print";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Often the lessons are there but we don’t know what we are looking at.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I found this posted on someone’s webpage:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <div style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt;"> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Life’s Many Little Lessons</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Everything Happens For A Reason..................</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there.....to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or help figure out who you are, or who you want to become.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You never know who these people may be, but when you lock eyes with them, you know that very moment that they will affect your life in some profound way.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And sometimes things happen to you at the time that may seem horrible, painful and unfair, but in reflection you realise that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, will power, or heart.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. Safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The people you meet affect your life. The successes and downfalls that you experience can create who you are, and the bad experiences can be learned from. In fact, they are probably the most poignant and important ones.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them because they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart to.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and open your heart and eyes to little things.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Let yourself fall in love, break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you. Create your own life and then go out and live it.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please copy and send this to anyone who you believe has made a difference in your life!</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So I am sending this out to YOU.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank you for making a difference in my life </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="">:)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirkpOxekkZNFRBzH_bXiydpIA-Zyi0_aP1-JSsPKlq1OUjjxaTekiGUWfFsqxXbVW79N1zxbf2v2nA4OLNPFNYcSlfbR0AWUakhdvv9MRPTfti3lvF5zR8cf0Vxfz3DClAJoRsV6i_FU/s1600/_MG_1844.JPG"><span><span></span></span></a>Deidrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13153770355846714358noreply@blogger.com0