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The city and the garden - in praise of inconsistency.
Good MorningDo the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now.- African-American ProverbLast night, after helping my daughter with five of her friends into formal dresses and then into a...
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Unhappy are the Pilemakers.
Good MorningIf you don't know you have it, or you can't find it, it's of no value to you.- Barbara HemphillIt seems you can get happier by cleaning your desk. I mean really. Happier. I cleaned mine...
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Home
Early MorningThere's a place and means for every man alive -William Shakespeare The house is high, looks across trees to hills, floods with Northern light.It has white walls like a painter's canvas,old...
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Difficult people are everywhere
MorningCourage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.Denis Waitley We all know difficult people. They...
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Doing Nothing in Particular
Good EveningIf you find it hard to sit and do nothing, you need to practise.Yesterday you planted seeds, threw a ball for your dog, cooked a meal for your family, cleaned your...
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Atticus and Elizabeth
SunriseYou just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anyone says to you, don’t let ‘em get your goat. -Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird I have posted at different times...
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Failings, faults and falling short
Good MorningOur virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.-Nikola TeslaI avoided, procrastinated and rebelled against the work I had to do...
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Mother Guilt
The day beginsSome mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. -Pearl S. BuckA blogger I read today mentioned a...
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It's the publishing that does it
Misty Morning, about 7am 'Writing is the supreme solace'-W.Somerset Maugham When you write about a subject, you are more likely to understand it. So if you want to understand, write. To understand...
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Buying
Good MorningTwo nights ago: It's Friday night and time to put away responsibility and start the fun. I drink vodka and eat hamburgers. Then it's on to Gumtree.com (like Ebay) knowing that I do not...
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.― John Ruskin Self, like living compost, Is best left unexplored. But you insist,Struggling for light, Until Nature shoots you...
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Really living without worry. No, REALLY.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. -Glenn Turner Sometimes I worry. There's no getting round it. I'm worrying most of the time. Sometimes I...
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'My' Dead Hen
Twilight a few months agoDead on the earth at dusk,Then wrapped in our daily news,She went, in the greatest humility,To a heavenOf seething soil,A place too awesome for vanityToo wondrous for sorrowToo...
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INFPs - Discipline and Character
Lack of self-discipline tormented me early in my adult life, and still does at times. For some people discipline comes easily. (Is it really discipline then?) They may be ESTJs who have no choice but...
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ESTJ for a day
Myers-Briggs is great for helping you accept yourself and others, and it is also great for showing you how to get unstuck. The other day I was stuck in self absorption, inactivity, and worry about...
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Intuition
Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com...
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The Shadow Side
The Shadow SideWhen smelling fully the perfumed earth,when sunshine and all the grey cloudsfill me with the same joy,when I am bare-hearted and openlike the rocky heads of bays,and epiphany comes in...
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Openness
Do you want to hear a giant overshare? Well listen to this.I often envision myself on a TV screen with microphones in my face giving my opinion to people who really want it, or responding to some...
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Three Confidence Tips
Good MorningDo you often lose confidence in yourself? I am often half way through the working day when a little voice announces: 'I'm here watching you and you're not good enough. Other people are...
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Happiness
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. -John BarrymoreHappiness has crept up on me. It's because Autumn is coming and I love Autumn, and we have paid off the house...
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