The joy of discovery

Today i am very focused on the joy of discovering things about my friends, that i did not know.  Today I found out some things about my good friend 🧡 Kathryn.  We were talking about the times we have encountered famous people in an almost six degrees of separation way.  It was a joy to hear more of Kathryn’s experiences in life  She is a brave empathetic soul and when she talks about her family,  particularly about her passed over son Joshua she speaks with such joy, love and reminiscing about him in such a loving way. I had sent Kathryn some YouTube music 🎶 🎵 clips this week and realised I had sent the wrong Rob Hirst playlist thinking I had sent the song There You Are which his long lost daughter Jay O’Shea had written about meeting hin for the first time. Without really realising it I sent her a tribute about his drumming and performing in Midnight Oil which is very hard and fast and totally mesmerising,  but not the gentle song I thought I had sent.   I needed to not worry because Kathryn is a person with a great understanding of pop culture.

I love learning more about my friends as I believe in the amazing gift of synchronisity abd the value of sharing one another’s stories and experiences ❤️   It is what makes us human and friendships with like minded people is such a gift.  Friends become our family by such shared experiences and bonds us to like minded people . I love discovering more about those I hold dear.

I Choose

A good friend of mine sent me a message today that she thought was about me and I want to share it with you.  It is as follows

I choose to be grateful 🙏🏽

I choose to be thankful

I choose to be excited

I choose to be happy 

I CHOOSE.

It was a message that her recently departed nephew wrote to his wife whilst battling cancer.  My friend said when she was shown this message she thought of me because I choose to be all those things and be a positive influence in an often all too negative world 🌎.  I feel humbled and wonderful 🙏🏽 that I can be an inspiration.

A glass half full and fake it to you make it

What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by?

There are a couple of personal mantras i live by. My regular readers will know I try to view the world 🌎 and my life with an optimistic glass half full perspective on life.  It helps to be optimistic and in those times that are more challenging i try to live by a fake it until you make it perspective.   How i developed that attitude was when I had just left my marriage and was feeling very low and was struggling a great support worker told me to fake it until you make it. She told me on those days when life was a struggle,  to get up, put on some make up,  perfume and pretty clothes and make myself face the world 🌎.  She was right,  that pep talk was just the tonic I needed and within a few weeks I was feeling stronger and better about myself and ever since then I have strongly developed the glass half full attitude. Nothing is worth that much worry that it makes you unwell and changes your optimism.

The best way to explore a new city

What’s the best way to explore a new city?

The best way to explore a new city is through walking taking in the surroundings and also to get on the local public transport such as 🚌 buses, trams 🚊 or train or if your lucky enough to be in Sydney get on board one of the Manly to Sydney Harbour ferries and definitely in my home town of Melbourne get on board a City Circle Tram 🚊 😀

To have Lily for the rest of my life.

The genie grants you a wish. What is it?

I didn’t have to think very hard about a genie granting me a wish. What I want is something very special but honestly it could never happen.

What I want is for my beautiful furbaby canine antidepressant Lily to live with me for the rest of my life. She is my little companion and most loyal friend 🧡 and because she has just turned 10 years old I know that my time with her is special and limited.  I think our canine companions don’t live long enough and that that is what makes our bond with them even more special.  We know that when we start to share our journey with them that the time is finite,  not forever but we let them into our hearts and they become our children which makes losing them hurt so much. I can’t imagine life without Lily, so yes my wish is to have her for my lifetime

Definitely Susanna

Which relationship has taught you the most about yourself?

My sister like relationship with my passed over angel lady Susanna taught me the most about myself and brought out the best in me by learning from how she lived her life, the example of spreading goodwill to all.

I must admit that there are some people in my life that have taught me how not to behave by judging me because of my mental health issues and treating me like I am shameful . These people have  no power over me amanymore and I follow Susanna’s example of wishing them well with their own journey of life.

I had a dream recently

I had a dream recently that stood out and I want to share it with you.

My closest friends, loved 😍 ones and regular readers will know that in the past 8 months or so I have felt grief at the passing of both Rob Hirst and Sam Neill.  Both were gentleman and very humble about their impact on this world 🌎.

I literally dreamt that they are both in heaven teaching about social justice,  equality, racism and loving ❤️ animals to those angels in heaven that have decided to come down to earth 🌎 in human form.  These angels are eager students and Rob is teaching them to play drums and Sam is teaching them acting skills, so these earthbound angels will have talent and skills in which to teach us mere mortals the important things in life. Both were men with great talent and I think God gave me that dream, so I would know that in the next life they continue to make a difference. It was a wonderful dream

Lily’s lament

Poor little Lily today is her 10th birthday and I think she is both confused and overwhelmed by it all.

I got up before Lily this morning and prepared my birthday surprise for her that being a pig’s ear treat on top of her pinch of dry food that she normally has for breakfast. Lily heard me prepare this and although it was only 5 00am she insisted on getting up. She was shocked to find her normal bowl of dry food with the pig’s ear on top. I sang Happy Birthday to her and she was literally crying 😢 the whole time and confused by her breakfast  she would look at her food bowl then look at me and cry some more. Eventually after two hours of that I hand fed her her dry food and then threw the pig’s ear for her to chase.  I kept singing happy birthday and she continued to cry. I told her that if she ate that pig’s ear treat that she could have another.

She ate the pig’s ear but cries when I say it is her birthday 🎂. Oh well such is life with a furbaby perpetual toddler.