I’ve been seeing websites with gorgeous compilations and collages of photographs, and was dying to be able to do it myself. So yesterday, opening up my pics in Picasa, lo and behold, the answer was right there. Did I have some fun! I can see many an hour ahead wasted spent creating glorious collages.
What do you [...]

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Sometimes we really are too busy to notice the beauty, hear the melody or appreciate a fine turn of phrase, aren’t we?
Sometimes we’re even too busy to notice a certain look in the eyes of someone we love. A look that says I Love You.
But it’s those very things, the sunrise that takes your breath [...]

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Yesterday morning, with a full to-do list and a busy, busy week, I discovered my laptop would not connect to the internet. The wireless is definitely acting up and I’ve tried everything I know short of throwing the thing out the window. For the sake of my own stress levels, I’ve shut it down and [...]

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Sit quietly doing nothing,
spring comes,
and the grass grows
by itself.
~Zen Wisdom

I’ve just settled back at my desk after mowing our lawn (with the ride-on mower – we have two acres:) and this saying sprang to mind. Even though it’s late summer our grass is lush and green and seems to grow as you watch it!
I love [...]

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It was one of those days. I’d spent most of it in the car, to and fro, an unpaid taxi driver… and the last straw was having to sit and wait for Gorgeous Girl as she finished her ride and then unsaddled, washed, rugged and fed her horse before we could go home.
I felt unappreciated, [...]

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summers day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

~John Lubbock
Summer, glorious summer. We complain about the heat and about the humidity. Today I found myself feeling very sorry for [...]

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Before me peaceful
Behind me peaceful
Under me peaceful
Over me peaceful
Around me peaceful
~Navajo Prayer

My summer holidays are over.
If you were wondering where I was, then worry no more. We’ve been resting, rejuvenating. Playing games and having fun. Lots of love and laughter. Lots of food and drink. Some sun (it’s been a rather wild and wet summer [...]

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph [...]

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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place
~Zen Saying

No snowflake ever falls in Brisbane, but that’s not the point.
I’m thinking about the new year. January and an impending holiday does that. I plan to do nothing. Relax. Sit. Enjoy. Unwind. Free the mind.
My inbox has been flooded this past week or two with special offers, [...]

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Why do you celebrate Christmas? What do you celebrate at Christmas?
With my life pared back to bare bones during our renovation and narry a bauble in sight, let alone a tree or piles of beautifully wrapped gifts, I find those two questions popping into my mind.
When you take away the tree, when you take away [...]

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