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magical living
Do you know about synchronicity? As I understand it, it is when things fall into place as if they were ‘causal’ related, but they are not. It happens to me often, and I refer to it as ‘meant to be’. It’s my little nod to magical living. This morning I was really puzzling over which…
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Himself
The last thing I saw before turning out the light last evening and getting into bed was the outline of my husband’s work boots where he left them in the courtyard. It is often the little things that endear our loved ones to us isn’t it? As I looked at them neatly placed at the…
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Have the conversation.
Two years ago this week I had a routine mammogram that showed I needed a needle biopsy. Less than a week later I had flown 1500km to have the biopsy as quickly as possible, and a few days later, back at home, May 31st, I was told I had breast cancer. Last evening we saw…
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Postal Service Anyone?
In Australia one must post a card or letter at a post box or a post office. There is no home pick up as there is in the USA. So, this morning, even though I had a stamp on the card I was sending, a little niggle sent me inside the post office to double…
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My Cups
Recently I caught myself looking through my collection of mugs for just the right one from which to drink my afternoon cup of herbal tea. As I reached for the perfect one with the happy, yellow wattle flowers on it, I realised I always choose this cup for my green or herbal teas. Odd. A…
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Pardon My Confusion
On my recent return trip from the USA I was travelling alone. So I had plenty of time to observe and muse about the ironies happening along the way. As I left Greater Cincinnati airport, which is, by the way, in Kentucky, and not Ohio, where Cincinnati is located, I approached the TSA area to…
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Dad
The relationship we have with our parents is no doubt the most influential relationship in our lives, for good or for bad. I have thought about writing down some of my thoughts about Dad for months now but today, the day after he has gone into hospice care, is the day. I can’t help but…
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Be a duck.
Let’s say for a moment that ducks are part of reality, as we know it. (for a reality check, read blogger Ido Lanuel: http://idolanuel.com/2012/07/19/the-duck1/) Two ducks are skimming placidly along the surface of a lake. Suddenly for no apparent reason they seem to have a disagreement. Perhaps one got a bit of plankton the other…
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Ten Thousand Hours
Are you excellent at something? Anything? Hard question to answer about oneself as it is rather subjective, but probably most of us have some idea. To become excellent at something most of us must have spent about 10 years or 10,000 hours doing it. And it can’t be just mindless repetition, it needs to be…
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Improving my view
I should be paying bills online at the moment, but I am writing because that is what I really want to do. There are times when we should live in the moment and do what gives us immediate pleasure, and times when we should do what will actually contribute to our long term happiness. This…
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