Three nights on

Honey recipes - The Secret Life of Bees. Got a recipe that requires apple sauce and coffee - have to try it!
Curiously awake following three nights on. Hope to stay awake until the evning and get back in line.
Call Mulcher.
Call Marty.
Call Marian.
Call Michelle
Do Take Ten.
Visit travel agent.
Buy food.
Just bought some new bed pillows - European style. The pillows are cheap, but they slug you big time for the pillow cases - $100 all up(!)
Have been to Mt Compass to get pick up a friend of my Jerry, take them to Tatachilla, then on to the cinema. Off to PAtricias for a $10 all day breakfast and tea.
Travel on to Target and pillow frenzy.
At the new Noarlunga library renovations now.
Then to cinema, Seaford shops.
Jerry to apply for work there.
Home, dinner, take ten.
Sleep.
Just browsing through a book on grief - to review.
Plus Bright Shiny Morning - quite depressing scenarios so far. Hope it is not all so bleak.
Should be titled Bleak dawning.

Experiment your heart out

I have been locked out of the internet yet again on my work computer.
It happens so often that I know the IT people well...................
Still it did focus me into other areas.
It is about hitting that wall about 4am - it is nearly impossible to be productive then.
10 mins until the library closes.
Things to get my teeth into overnight.
Hearing voices write up.
Sevice planning
Photo comp - experiment your heart out!

The Art of Life

Afternoon sun on the windows
Cool water hitting skin
Melodies from black and white days
A chance smile
A parent cradles a wriggling baby
Sky that reaches up forever
A knitted cable pattern
Encounters with a jumping dog
Australian voices in a faraway land
Walking along the track of wilderness
The ice box rainforest collages
Imprints of paintings
Birthday cakes and a green cloak floating by
A camera fixes it into history
For my sins

Bob girl

New Bob hair
The life & times of Anna Wintour on show
The Mortlock building on North Terrace
A sense of place - Hugh Mackay - Has he been writing on this for the last five years and I've just found out about it?
Had a conversation with him last night - his next research topic & book is on 'What makes us tick?'Following on from his talk entitled A Sense of place.
Had a wonderful day
Having spent 15 odd years having little done to my hair, it's time........!
Things I need to research-:
Royal College of Nurses - grants and membership
Masters courses for 2010
OS Travel in 2010
Things I don't need-:
Entering lots of competitions for the sake of it
Reading lots of trash, well lets try and cull it a bit, okay
Cleaning bathrooms
Oraganizing other people's finances

Goolge restored - connected again

Have been without google on the computer for days.
Now restored.
Hallelujah!

The inner and outer experience.................

Emily Dickinson - Much Madness is divinest Sense
Much Madness is divinest Sense --
To a discerning Eye --
Much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail --
Assent -- and you are sane --
Demur -- you're straightway dangerous --
And handled with a Chain --

Searching and writing up a summary on the spirituality & Health conference, found this poem, which seems to come out at me.

Listening to consumers, asking questions

Writings of people in their life battles.
Questions to ask.
When do you feel alive?
What makes a good day for you.
What is the bset thing about being here?
What is the worst part of being here?

Winter beckons

Round the world in minutes on my computer.
Think I need the support of a travel agent on this one.
Winter beckons.
Snow filled landscapes.
Big overcoats, hats and mittens.
Bring it on in 2010.

Give me a sugar hit - NOW

Craving sugar - ice cream, biscuits.
My whole body wants a hit.
On other topics -:
My tax return hasn't been lodged - found out yesterday, ?why, has apparently been at the bottom of the pile - needing to work out the education rebate - but that is why I get an accountant to do these things.
Computer was locking me out for several days - bugger.
A bit of the hot flush symptoms resurfacing - but am trying to keep them at bay.
To do fire telephone tree and working bee reminder.
Card to long term WGV resident.
Flowers to a friend who has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
Christmas poster - need it completed ASAP.

Memoirs of loss - Shimmer

Just finished Shimmer. I seem to be reading a lot of books about grief. Memoirs, all beautifully written. The year of magical Thinking, The Waiting Room, Through a Glass Darkly and now Shimmer. I feel I need to make sense of my own losses and feelings of powerlessness and grief. The slow decline of my father and the earlier loss of my much loved mother. There is something about Caroline Jones and her words and fear - siting that feeling of 'living beside an abotoir'. It is that feeling of watching your parents die - there is that wanting to look away, but being unable to.

How to live in 10 easy lessons.

How to live in 10 easy lessons.
1. Take a rest day once a week-: Don't cook, clean or do the laundry on this day, preferably a Sunday - the sabbath - the day of rest. This is my prayer. (But why do I feel so guilty when I do this?) I worked with someone who had a rule that she never cooked on the weekend.
2. Don't over tax your body with toxins-: ie alcohol, bad fats, dairy products, wheat products ie biscuits, bread and cakes and last but not least caffiene. This is nie on impossible, but try, will you(!)
3. Reflect and meditate each day-: Pray, listen to God's voice, often in the stillness that is very precious. Subtitled - quiet time, down time, time out or
4. Water - Everywhere, to drink in and to feel on your senses.
5. Find your sacred place-: Your boat on the water of chaos, your refuge in the storm we call life - is it the daily grind. Getting away from the grindhouse - yes you can.
6. Look after your skin - sunscreen
7. Now get moving, walk it out.
8. Get into the fresh air, even a nice chair in the sunshine.
9. Write-: write about everything, to everyone. Absorb it and put it back out there. A born writer is happier to observe than to be in the thick of it.
10. Have friends-: Talk, phone and laugh, whether they are your family or not, they will keep you sane.

Time stood still....................

Knives in Hens in review-:
This is a slow going concern.
The scripting and staging are frugal in nature.
This may suit the era of the pre industrial landscape but time seems to stand still.
The dialogue is quite lyrical and poetic in parts. Particularly when the woman’s knowledge of the pen and the words in her head are revealed.
The characters are not likeable or engaging, this may be another reason the audience is not drawn into their world.
Went to the Pancake Parlor afterwards, which was quite mediocre.

Travel lust

Travel lust.
Want to be seeing new places.
Having new expereinces.
?? A Nothern hemishpere escape to London and the continent ie Ireland, Scotland.
Plus stop over.
?Round the world tix?
?Jasmine and I.
Boys meet us there??
Lots & lots of moulah.