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people exist to be loved; objects exist to be used. The world is in chaos because these things are the other way around. Dalai Lama

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

“The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness,
I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times,
Now it flows unto us, we are rightly charged.”
― Walt Whitman

My conversation with my daughter Tuesday day after her first day back in Kindergarten.

J. What did you do in school today?
D. We learnt a new word.
J. And what word is that??
D. I can’t remember.

Walked into that one, didn't I.

Life is a balance
between holding on and letting go.
~ Rumi

"When all the world is a hopeless jumble
And the raindrops tumble all around
Heaven opens a magic lane

When all the clouds darken up the skyway
There's a rainbow highway to be found
Leading from your windowpane

To a place behind the sun
Just a step beyond the rain

Somewhere, over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I dreamed of
Once in a lullabye

Somewhere, over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true"
E. Y. Harburg, lyricist

Picture, Southern Victoria, Australia today

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you can see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore...."

Thomas Cochrane, lyricist
Rascal Flats "Life is like a Highway

In a 2 horse race always back 'self interest' - at least you know its trying!

Paul Keating

Nice one for Mothers Day from my daughter;
'Women are like teabags. We don't know how strong we are until we are in hot water'
attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt

Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they’re meant to be.
BKS Iyengar

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
Attributed to Goethe