29 November 2023 — HOW TIME FLIES! Time seems ‘to fly’, of course when there is something to which we are not looking forward. On the contrary when we ARE looking forward to something taking place, time can seem to hang out and things take forever. AND, how DO we…

28 November 2023 — CYCLING ON THE PAVEMENT This has tended to become ‘normal’ now with pedestrians simply avoiding the bikes. It seems that ‘things’ change without any rhyme or reason. However, there is a pavement near me where bikes tend NOT to go simply because it is a narrow…

25 November 2023 — WHAT IS THIS LIFE! What is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs and stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see when woods we pass where squirrels hide…

23 NOVEMBER 2023 — LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT SO MAKE IT GOOD A heading which I have used many many times. And, moreover, one which contains much sadness for me as the person with whom I associate the phrase is now dead. So how do we make life…

So what is there to say about this? It is, however, not so easily achieved. We might resent and dislike where we find ourselves -where life has planted us — and find ourselves unable to ‘bloom with grace’. And what does to ‘bloom with Grace’ actually mean? — Supposedly it means to accept all which happens to us gratefully and gracefully and to grow in love and acceptance. PONDER POINTS; on reading this I felt …. my thoughts on reading this were ….

21 November 2023 — CORRECTION TO THE BLOG: ACQUAINTACES, FRIENDS OR FOE FOURTH PARAGRAPH — ‘…And that the category of foe becomes EXTINCT and NOT DISTINCT.

21 November 2023 — Acquaintances, Friends or Foe? Of the many people we know, they tend to fit into different categories according to our reactions to them. ‘Acquaintances’ are merely people we know in passing whilst ‘Friends’ are people with whom we share our innermost thoughts and feelings. BUT, how…

19 November 2023 — ON TOP OF US! Why do we allow things to get on top of us allowing us to feel that everything is too much and that we cannot cope? Mainly I suspect because the ego self needs to know it exists. And it feels it exists…

18 November 2023 —FOOD FOOD FOOD OR, IN MY CASE PICKING AT FOOD in order to cover over my feelings. And why don’t I wish to feel my feelings? To FEEL requires one to face all those uncomfortable feelings which arise and are not comfortable to deal with. I suspect…