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Unconditional Love - part one
When my beautiful daughter left here, after her last visit,
she was going to Dubbo to the highly regarded Western Plains Zoo.
When she’d gone I thought about zoo visits we’d had when she was a child and decided to reminisce with a cup of tea and some photos.
There were many photos that stirred emotions.
The mess she’d [...]
Boulder Holders and Bathers
Where have I been? What have I been doing? I’ve been everywhere, so it seems, trying to find a way to make extra income. What have I come up with? Boulder holders and Bathers, with a few other bits as well.
Over the last several months I have been very conscious of opportunity placed along the [...]
Love is?
Minutes before this photo was taken, that beautiful calm the sunset imposes was missing, as the waves crashed almost recklessly upon the shore.
Then the transformation occurred. Snippets of orange and pinks began to appear on the horizon. My focus changed from the power of the ocean to the magic forming in the sky.
As nature painted [...]
Talonted
My first promotion of a favourite blog has to be Talonted: http://talonted.blogspot.com/
Not only is Talon an observer and photographer of all things beautiful in nature and in her own back yard, she is also an inspiring writer. Her words are vivid in imagery:
Some things are just beautiful…
like the sweet sliver of crescent moon sitting low [...]
Relax, Relax…..Relax!
Why is it that Melo the cat, can just relax - anywhere? Why is it whenever I try to relax, I firstly need to find a quiet space? Then I need something comfortable to sit on, and I need the temperature to be right. Too cold and I’ll have to get up and get [...]
The Joy of Singing - ShACappella
“Alas for those who never sing and die with all their music in them.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What a joy it is to sing!
It doesn’t matter if you think you’re a great singer or if you think you can’t sing. To sing is joyous. As Karen Ashworth, the founder of ShACappella says ”Sing when you are down [...]
A Positive News Story - Yes they are around.
I know it’s an old one, but I didn’t hear the story at the time and there has been so much negative news via the media, that when I recieved this in an email this morning (we must be a bit slow in Aus) I had to post it. Besides I love the punch line.
Donner [...]
Wow, how time flies!
How time flies - I just looked at the date of my last post. Two weeks ago! What have I been doing that has kept me away from my blog? Setting up a website. The site is called http://southernhighlandsentertainment.com/ It is about Southern Highlands entertainment. I’ve used the Wordpress platform again. Now that within itself [...]
Challenges
Yesterday I saw someone who brought up many memories and various thoughts. We’d been good friends many years ago, when my daughter and I first moved to the area.
He’s an intelligent man, with a good career, financially stable and owns a beautiful little farm with a very comfortable log cabin style home. He has been [...]
Midlife Magic: Becoming the Person You are Inside
Funny how certain things come to you at the right time. This little book, Midlife Magic: Becoming the Person You are Inside has been one of those things.
When I first started blogging with Wordpress.com I came across http://midlifecrisisqueen.com. It was a blog I had an instant affinity with. The honesty of the writer of the [...]
Country Photos, our backyard
This is a photo taken by my daughter not far from where we live. A place she often visits, to swim, to enjoy, to think, to take photos. My daughter was raised in a beautiful country area of NSW. It’s hot in summer 35c yesterday, and can snow in winter, as you can see by [...]
Ambition to Meaning: Finding your life’s purpose
Recently I posted the trailer for Ambition to Meaning: http://whttp://hotmiddlescence.com/2008/12/09/what-was-great-in-the-morning-will-be-little-at-evening/
I found the trailer and some of Dr Dyer’s quotes compelling enough to find myself looking forward to seeing the film.
Yesterday, my oportunity came via www.spiritualmediablog.com Matt Welsh had left a post with footage of of an interview with Dr Wayne Dyer on Ellen Degeneres. During [...]
Memories
About a year ago Alex and I spent one of my most memorable times together. He’d been on a ten day 4 wheel drive tour into the high country in Victoria. On his arrival back here we went out for dinner to one of the small village eateries. It was a romantic atmosphere, with only [...]
Today I’m 53
Today is my birthday. I”m 53. Did you read read that Brigit, you are 53! It all seems ridiculous. How could I already be 53. I don’t feel it, well most of the time I don’t feel it. Yesterday while I was mowing my 1/3 of an acre of backyard with a push mower I [...]
Christmas and spiritual significance
It’s Christmas eve. As a child my german family gave their gifts on Christmas Eve. It was always an excititing day. Mum would cook, dad would do last minute ’stuff’ and I would eagerly await evening. The gifts would sit under the tree, and I could barely endure the temptation to sneak a peek.
We [...]
What was great in the morning will be little at evening
My last post looked at the meaning of life and its relevance to self esteem and youth. It left me thinking about my own purpose in life.
Was I living my life purposefully. My life’s purpose has changed …more than once, With that thought in mind I came across http://www.spiritualmediablog.com/ on which I found information [...]
Calm
Recently I came across an article identifying, stress, high blood pressure, high colestrol, diabetes2 and some medications such as benzodiazepines and beta blockers, as contributing factors in Alzheimer’s or other memory related problems.
Research suggests that as we age the brain finds it more difficult to filter out distractions. The brain also broadens its focus, making the instant retreval of names for instance [...]
A little bit of magic
No big deal, but none the less, a little bit of magic.
Yesterday’s post became a waffle about being alone in cyberspace in my middlescence. This morning I turned on the computer to find some comments in my inbox. Magic. Not because the comments were there, but the effect they had. The comments were there because I found [...]
Happiness and the Past
At times when saddness seems insurmountable, it is difficult to see happiness as a potential as I found earlier this year after yet another withdrawal of Alex’s committment.
After that last argument, I tried to discover why as Alex had suggested some years ago, that something in my background must have instilled a ‘do it tough’ value. I [...]
