26 September 2023 = LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT SO MAKE IT GOOD I’m not sure if this saying is totally correct. Sometimes it seems as if whatever one does things don’t work out the way one intended them to or thought they would. The key factor I believe is to accept the way things are and ask the question WHY. WHY HAVE I CHOSEN THIS? WHAT DO I HAVE TO LEARN? Certainly our reactions to people and the way they respond to us is under our control and we can MAKE OUR LIVES GOOD by merely shrugging our shoulders and saying to ourselves ‘Ah so’ rather then going over and over in our minds about how mean a person has been to us and feeling angry and sorry for ourselves.

21 September 2023 — ANOTHER DAY ANTHER DOLLOR! This saying was something people used to say back in the day — seeing the day as being purely about earning money. I wonder if anything has changed! I think perhaps that it has, that most people enjoy the work they do and the money is purely a necessity whereby they can feed themselves and their families and pay rent etc! BUT having said that money is a necessity to buy food and pay rent etc. there is the proviso as to what we actually do with the money we earn after we have bought food and paid the rent — save it? spend it? give some to those begging in the street?

19 September 2023 — UPSETTING PEOPLE Sometimes it seems very easy to upset people without meaning to. Then we need to send them love and understanding and endeavour to understand why we have upset them. Most certainly, the feeling of having upset someone who we love and to whom we…

15 September 2023 — MOVE ON! A van have just gone by the window with ‘move on’ written on its side. And ‘moving on’ is something we don’ t generally do enough of, I fear. Anybody living in the past? Allowing the mind to go over and over things which…

10th September 2023 = EXPECTATIONS Today has, once again, begun with my expectations of what would happen in the last 10 minutes- not happening — and the same has happened to a friend of mine. And yet, I am sure that many peoples’ expectations have been fulfilled whether or not…

9 September 2023 — EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED WE ARE SO OFTEN AFRAID OF THE UNKNOWN BECAUSE IT IS UNPREDICTABLE AND CANNOT BE CONTROLLED. IF WE WERE ABLE NOT TO JUDGE AND LET THE UNKNOWN INTO OUR LIVES IT WOULD BECOME THE KNOWN AND FAMILIAR. IT IS WHY WE LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IS EXPECTED IN EVERY ACTION WE TAKE SO WE WILL NOT BE SURPRISED AND SHOCKED BY THE OUTCOME. PONDER POINTS WHAT IS THE UNKNOWN WE ARE READY TO EMBRACE

8 September 2023 — Family A little bit like you can’t live with them or you can’t live without them. Sometimes you desperately need them whilst at other times it feels like a break from them would be good! Personally, however, on the whole, I feel I spend more time needing than desiring a break and, what I have not considered is LOVE. It is easier to love one’s own family and to accept their idiosyncrasies than it is to love others’ families and to accept their idiosyncrasies.

7 September 2023 — DIFFERENCES Why is it that we see and view things differently from each other? For some of us this difference is mild and we accept others ways of seeing things as just being different whilst for others of us the difference is of great importance and we see others as being completely in the wrong. We are right — they are wrong. PONDER POINTS; On reading this my feelings were….my thoughts were

4 September — DREAMS — I awoke with a dream which seemed very real indeed — as though it had happened. Now I can’t remember anything about it. Dreams! Dreams! Dreams! However, my son has been taken to hospital as he has been sick at work and it seems that perhaps the dream could be connected to that incident. Another connection to dreams, is, of course, what it is we DREAM about happening is something we would dearly love to occur.