oh and one more thing...
I fell totally head over heels when I was told about this house - stunning.
I hope the link works and takes you to the most beautiful hobbit house - low impact woodland home...magical
Perhaps it just sits so perfectly with all my childhood dreams, perhaps it's the romantic notions of woodlands and living outdoors, perhaps it's tied in with looking after this planet, or a mix of all of them.
For whatever reason, I'm left hoping that maybe there will be more like it in the future... and that maybe there will be a woodland hotel or similar sometime soon too :~D
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Happy...soul smiling :~)
Have been missing writing here - which probably means I should drop by more often -
Soon I'll be moving upstairs to the bedroom with the laptop - we have visitors for a couple of weeks and just maybe I'll find escape-time up there to unwind before sleep.
I came across these wonderful clips - from the world of happy :) and as they made me smile I thought I'd share...
I'd like to think I was the pink drumming cricket, but I'm not as good...!!
And on the happy note, so many moments lately have made me happy - moments when you stop and you can feel your soul smiling,
remembering
the colour of the sea as I drove past
the new shoot on the bird of paradise plant which I know one day will flower... I know it will!!
the angel who gave me a lift between hospitals on my last check up in England
the cute cyclist who smiled and waved but I haven't a clue who he is
the consultant who told me it was absolutely fine for me to 'go climb a mountain' as long as I took back a photo next time I saw him :~D
and lots to do with children and friends...
and sleep and
team work
and people who stretch me and show me possibilities and who are exciting and teach me new things... and the fun of learning, and discovery
and making connections and links and wondering at the way connections are made, and at how serendipity plays a part in life and that surely there is no such thing as coincidence...
and for all it's flaws once again wishing I could just freeze time so I could breathe in these moments a bit longer...
Soon I'll be moving upstairs to the bedroom with the laptop - we have visitors for a couple of weeks and just maybe I'll find escape-time up there to unwind before sleep.
I came across these wonderful clips - from the world of happy :) and as they made me smile I thought I'd share...
I'd like to think I was the pink drumming cricket, but I'm not as good...!!
And on the happy note, so many moments lately have made me happy - moments when you stop and you can feel your soul smiling,
remembering
the colour of the sea as I drove past
the new shoot on the bird of paradise plant which I know one day will flower... I know it will!!
the angel who gave me a lift between hospitals on my last check up in England
the cute cyclist who smiled and waved but I haven't a clue who he is
the consultant who told me it was absolutely fine for me to 'go climb a mountain' as long as I took back a photo next time I saw him :~D
and lots to do with children and friends...
and sleep and
team work
and people who stretch me and show me possibilities and who are exciting and teach me new things... and the fun of learning, and discovery
and making connections and links and wondering at the way connections are made, and at how serendipity plays a part in life and that surely there is no such thing as coincidence...
and for all it's flaws once again wishing I could just freeze time so I could breathe in these moments a bit longer...
Sunday, February 14, 2010
The latest project...
This years project from R, ten years on from the original one - a painting every day of 2010 - those on facebook will already know about it, but those who aren't please take a look - you don't have to be registered on Facebook to view the group and the paintings... :o)
It's been a while since I sat and wrote here - daily contemplation takes many forms I guess and I've been busy doing other things too, learning new skills, aswell as dredging up some from the past which have been hidden in the recesses of my mind since school days!
music has a habit of making time travel possible, and earlier I listened to this from a long time ago - fun filled, youth fuelled, sparky, out there ready to take on the world memories, oh and hard times in there too...bitter sweet!
Just got me thinking, while I was at the gym, where I am 'upping the ante' and working harder in preparation for the Playtex moonwalk in May, about how being able to raise our game when we are called to, can be far more effective than wasting energy from being in a constant state of expectation - that being able to meet life face to face as it presents itself is a quality worth nurturing all round...
and yet how human the fight response is, especially in youth, and how conditioned we get to the expectation of things always remaining the same, which can so easily blind us to the true picture...
Anyhow, 'up the ante' is called for seriously here, as an ankle operation looms in a couple of days and I have no real idea of what the result will be - my brain says a few sutures and a sticky plaster.. whereas older and I tend to think wiser folk say a big bandage and crutches as a necessity instead of optional extra.. so we will see!! I am keeping my purple killer heels well in focus throughout this regardless though :o)
The new skill? African drumming... huge fun with new friends, great for stress release and harder than I'd thought!!
and the old skill...blanket stitch for darning pointe shoes ~ a true labour of love!
music has a habit of making time travel possible, and earlier I listened to this from a long time ago - fun filled, youth fuelled, sparky, out there ready to take on the world memories, oh and hard times in there too...bitter sweet!
Just got me thinking, while I was at the gym, where I am 'upping the ante' and working harder in preparation for the Playtex moonwalk in May, about how being able to raise our game when we are called to, can be far more effective than wasting energy from being in a constant state of expectation - that being able to meet life face to face as it presents itself is a quality worth nurturing all round...
and yet how human the fight response is, especially in youth, and how conditioned we get to the expectation of things always remaining the same, which can so easily blind us to the true picture...
Anyhow, 'up the ante' is called for seriously here, as an ankle operation looms in a couple of days and I have no real idea of what the result will be - my brain says a few sutures and a sticky plaster.. whereas older and I tend to think wiser folk say a big bandage and crutches as a necessity instead of optional extra.. so we will see!! I am keeping my purple killer heels well in focus throughout this regardless though :o)
The new skill? African drumming... huge fun with new friends, great for stress release and harder than I'd thought!!
and the old skill...blanket stitch for darning pointe shoes ~ a true labour of love!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
A wonderful prayer - thanks Tim
Just wanted to keep this here at hand - sometimes what I read online speaks way more than things I hear spoken in church here - there is much wonderful wisdom out there.. this is a most beautiful prayer for Christmas... please take a look.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
complete escape... :)
Hey, I am around - the kids are back at school tomorrow so I should have time to catch up time I hope.
Happy New Year :)
From me there are no resolutions as such, more wishes perhaps.
New Year started cut off on a tiny island, only accessible at low tide, which meant we had it completely to ourselves. For two days it was our very own island...full of it's own unique treasures.
A perfect escape with some great people ~ a chilled out, beautiful group of creative, expressive, thoughtful, fun loving friends, some old and some new ~ eating, drinking, walking, playing games, relaxing, just being. Forgetting time and enjoying experiencing the moment.
It was ~
A new start,
a clean slate,
a new day,
a new year ~ full of possibility, potential, dreams...
I returned refreshed and renewed ~
perhaps the wind blew more than cobwebs away,
the stillness focused the soul aswell as the mind,
and the beauty did more than inspire and re energise...
It was a couple of days to step out of this life, and at the end of it walk back across the causeway into a new year and ready to face whatever wonder 2010 holds.
For a while we stepped off this world and came back a year later... with new eyes perhaps...
Sunday, December 13, 2009
thoughts, words and feelings
There are thoughts,
there are words,
there are feelings....
sometimes they don't all come together cohesively.
Words lose some of the feelings and thoughts in their construction, and generally seem inadequate.
Feelings that are best expressed without words, but instead with eyes and hearts and touch.
At the moment I am
grateful ~
that life is a journey,
that sometimes - often, and almost always, if we strive, things do turn around, work out..
that perhaps instead of watching with bated breath I can maybe now start to breathe a little easier at the end of what has been the most difficult year of my life so far.
I could have, should have trusted after all... maybe...
yet trusting in the unknown future is so very hard to do.
I am aware that even when things get easier we are never given the respite to fully recover but have to do it 'on the run' when in fact we'd quite like space to sit and do it all properly...
Recovery doesn't happen overnight, although sleep does heal, but the body takes it's time to catch up and we must be patient :)
It really is true that the more you love, the more you care, and so the more you hurt when they do, and the more you feel for and with them ~ how cruel is that?
The price we pay for love.... that we wouldn't be without.
Thoughts, words, feelings... caught up within living... and constantly in colourful flux.
The tree is up, and once again we have hit the festive season. I am aware of the world around me, both on a small scale and far wider, further afield...
I find I get lost in thought, in a place where words often fail, and the heart yearns and hopes.
A tangle of thoughts words and feelings... and hope for so many's unknown future.
there are words,
there are feelings....
sometimes they don't all come together cohesively.
Words lose some of the feelings and thoughts in their construction, and generally seem inadequate.
Feelings that are best expressed without words, but instead with eyes and hearts and touch.
At the moment I am
grateful ~
that life is a journey,
that sometimes - often, and almost always, if we strive, things do turn around, work out..
that perhaps instead of watching with bated breath I can maybe now start to breathe a little easier at the end of what has been the most difficult year of my life so far.
I could have, should have trusted after all... maybe...
yet trusting in the unknown future is so very hard to do.
I am aware that even when things get easier we are never given the respite to fully recover but have to do it 'on the run' when in fact we'd quite like space to sit and do it all properly...
Recovery doesn't happen overnight, although sleep does heal, but the body takes it's time to catch up and we must be patient :)
It really is true that the more you love, the more you care, and so the more you hurt when they do, and the more you feel for and with them ~ how cruel is that?
The price we pay for love.... that we wouldn't be without.
Thoughts, words, feelings... caught up within living... and constantly in colourful flux.
The tree is up, and once again we have hit the festive season. I am aware of the world around me, both on a small scale and far wider, further afield...
I find I get lost in thought, in a place where words often fail, and the heart yearns and hopes.
A tangle of thoughts words and feelings... and hope for so many's unknown future.
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