The Best Gifts Cannot be Bought As today’s post will be the last one before Christmas, what better time to talk about giving? For many of us, frenzied Christmas shopping and wrapping have filled recent days and weeks. For …
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Your Life Purpose Have you ever found yourself wondering what it’s all about? Asking why you’re alive? What your purpose is? Well, the good news is that you’re far from alone. Most of us have found ourselves in this exact …
As easy as 1—2—3 Each morning, we are born again. We can’t start the next chapter in our lives if we keep re-reading the last one. What matters most is what we do today. For certain, worrying about what has …
Keep it Simple I don’t know about you, but for me, life has all-too-frequently felt like an uphill struggle. In my younger years, I took things far too seriously. And, while I had big ambition, I had small confidence. …
Ten Things to Forget Today’s Monday Musings marks half a year. Wow—where’d the time go? For those of you who’ve been with me from the beginning, thank you. For all of you who have just joined in the fun, …
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Boomerang Most of us desire a happy, smooth existence, right? Some of us, of course, chase the thrill, but even that is on our terms. We might go and climb Everest or swim the English channel in deepest, darkest, iciest …
One Step In our previous Musings, we have looked at many topics. What they all come down to is letting go and moving on from a place of acceptance and stillness. A place of not putting ourselves (our conditioning) …
Forgiveness Isn’t What You Think In my younger days, I used to believe that forgiving a person helped them more than it helped me. Not so. When we hold onto anger and blame, we hurt ourselves far more than …
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Herd Animal Human beings are herd animals and, for this reason, can find it difficult to go against the crowd. To step out on your own can feel daunting at best. It can also liberate you. Today’s musing also ties …
Painting Pain All of us tell ourselves stories about what confronts us. We paint pictures in our heads of how we think things are. Then we compare this to the picture we’ve already painted about how we think it’s …
It’s Never too Late Recently, I came across a quote by George Elliot that resonated with me. ‘It is never too late to be who you might have been.’ For me, this single sentence contains a book full …
It’s Okay to Have a Meltdown While we’re on our life journey, it’s important to remember that we’re only human. And not a one of us is a saint (most probably). And, I’m sure that each of those …
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Life before Death If you’ve read my previous musings, you will have seen that I spent far too many years in a dead zone. I got so busy worrying about coping in general, and judging myself as unworthy, …
Own It Last week we looked at knowing what’s yours. Today, I’d like to talk about owning what’s yours. More specifically, facing up to the things you’d rather bury in a deep, dark hole. We all make mistakes. …
Knowing what’s Yours On from Monday Musings Fourteen, on patience and knowing when not to act, this week we take a look at knowing what’s yours. What do I mean by this? The simplest way to approach this …
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I think, therefore I am. The mind is everything. What you think, you become. We make our own world, and then we live in it. As with the Monday Musings on Gratitude and Patience, perception is key. Train your …
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Patient Perseverance Whenever things go wrong, we respond. Often, in our annoyance or hurt, none too skilfully. Sometimes, it’s not actually any of our business, and still, we meddle. Do we have to try and solve everything, though? When …
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The Great and the Small A close friend made a comment the other day, which set me to thinking. He noted that we stop noticing. We go through our daily lives oblivious to much that surrounds us that we …
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I haven’t kept Katie company in a while, as I’ve been busy with poems, and my other “project”, which I’m not telling about just yet 🙂 Woot, woot! 5,500 words written today! The word count is now at 57, 816 …
Hi folks! I have another instalment of Finding Katie for you 🙂 … Are you ready? … “The last bit gets my attention. The silence shifts, and holds the question. Mel catches it.” WIP is now at 51,437 words 🙂 …
Ooops, where’d the last four days go? I kind of blinked and missed them. Exciting though, once I stopped being ill, ‘cos I have a new project up my sleeve … yes, as well as the WIP, LOL. Anyway, I …