11 March 2023 — LOVING OTHERS I have just come across this quote from Sri Sathya Sai Baba which made me ponder! The quote reads: ‘It is not all that important how much you love others. It is far more important how much others love you.” It does make good…

9 March 2023 — KEEP SMILING THROUGH! ‘Smiling Through’ applies to what we would like to worry about in our own lives as well to our responses to other people’s reactions to us. Sometimes we use ‘worry’ in order to get away from our feelings instead of just letting our…

7 March 2023 — LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT SO MAKE IT GOOD! A heading I use frequently because I seem to be unable to follow its instruction. At the moment I am making myself ill .. and I do believe that I am doing it to myself! i.e. choosing to be ill. I have no idea why I would choose to be ill but I can accept the fact and see it as positive (good) in the sense of my having the STRENGTH to ENDURE.

MARCH 5TH —Native American History Part Two ‘Before I was six years old, my grandparents and my Mother had taught me that if all the green things that grow were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the four-legged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the winged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be life. If all our relatives who crawl and swim and live within the earth were taken away, there couldbe no life. But if all the human beings were taken away, life on earth would flourish. That is how significant we are . “Russell Means, Oglala Lakota Nation. (Nov 39 to Oct 2012).

March 5th 2023 — NATIVE PRIDE QUOTE FROM ‘NATIVE WELLNESS INSTITUTE’. “It is not documents that define us, but rather what is undocumented. Our ancestral values continue to exist and evolve through our spirits today. …

3 March 2023 — ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER DOLLAR This was a saying the guys on the RAF camp used to say back in the day when I lived in Germany. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say another day another opportunity to do those things we intended to do yesterday but didn’t. Another opportunity to smile at people and be kind to all. Another opportunity to be happy and contented with what is happening in our lives when we are unable to change it.

1 March 2023 — PINCH PUNCH FIRST OF THE MONTH AND NO RETURNS And the answer to that was ‘a flip and a kick for being so quick’. Childish games we used to play before we had modern technology and all its assets to keep us occupied: when we were able to play in the road as there weren’t that many cars around. In the ‘olden days’ as one of my granddaughters terms my past; totally unaware that if she is lucky enough to live a long life people will one day refer to her ‘olden days’.

28 February 2023 — KEEPING FIT! As I sit in my window with a view of the road outside and the road across the river I see many people running. It seems to be an obsession today but then, I suspect I have some jealousy harboured within me! Once I at least cycled but after falling off my bike I now refrain from doing so. Until recently I was able to walk to where I needed to go but at the moment I am even finding this difficult. For those people who enjoy running and keeping fit I do have admiration and YES I AM VERY JEALOUS!!

27 February 2023 — The Northern Lights I’m not really sure what these are but they are very topical today. “An aurora is formed by a solar flare erupting on the Sun, sending charged particles towards the Earth which interact with our atmosphere.” “Over the last few days, a strong…