I have been blessed with the gift of avoiding things I do not want to do.
Why is it a gift? Because it is a rare area of my life where I feel little guilt by contrast to the waves, swathes and layers of guilt that blanket other parts of my reality.
Plus there is the joy, [...]

I ran early this morning and it was so wonderful. At 5.30am the sun was just beginning to rise, and as I got warmed up and into my stride, running through the dew and the perfume of may blossom, suddenly there was that amazing moment when the rays of light cut through the shadows, the [...]

Today has been great. The art of relaxing taken to the nth degree, and I do feel so wonderful.
It has been several days of unalloyed pleasure recently, friends, laughing, good food, fabulous children and learning to relax -at last.
Truthfully things, life, has been so stressful recently that the levels could not be sustained. Something [...]

I am having a good day. Not just financially, but in myself, too. I have been surrounded by people that I like and love all day and it does make such a difference to my outlook on life, but it passes. I still long for endless continuity; wanting things to stay good all the time, [...]

Gently peeling an onion
Sounds like part of a recipe, I know, but it is not.
I wish it were, I would have a certain sense of control over the affair, but it is a term used in recovery from addiction.
It is the process that happens to someone who chooses to change, to put down the [...]

I was putting my five year old daughter to bed last night and made a comment. I cannot remember what it was, but her reply was “get a grip, lady”. Sweet.
Funny, too.
And it has been a nice day. Lots of people to lunch, good home cooking, laughing, playing and even half an hour [...]

A very drunk, blinded by drink, man staggered into the shop just now, clutching a can of beer. I very efficiently strode past him say “Come on, Out”. Help the door open and he turned on his heel without thinking and staggered back out again. Brilliant! It works. Give no crack for them to climb [...]

I remember being in Goa, many years ago, staying in a hotel near a river and one morning fully grown adults were being baptised. Fully immersed in the water, they would rise up with a huge smile on their faces, looking up to the Heavens. It was biblical and quite fantastic.
Another time, in Khajurao, [...]

And the things people say. I can be so swayed by a moments’ thoughtless comment. I guess we all can. Sitting at a course yesterday on Retail Success, which was fabulous, so many things were said, 99% with huge amounts of thought behind them, but a few were thoughtless comments, not all by me. There [...]

There are two strands today. One is the thought processes after I wrote yesterday, and the awareness that I could be read as being extremely arrogant in thinking that I could make a difference. I have no issue with what others think about what I can or cannot do, and happily the only weblog comment [...]