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 The simplicity of my day to day. |
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This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
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What are your plans for this weekend? We’re staying at home this year. So many Easter’s we have been away camping with our family, but now our children and grandchildren all seem to have their own plans. We have been invited to a picnic by our granddaughter. She and her husband are going with their neighbours, who also have little children the same age as her two. But the little ones will be happily playing together and the parents will be busy chatting and watching the kids and I wonder if we’ll be in the way. I think maybe we’ll just catch up for coffee at her house on Monday instead. The other granddaughter with her four children have gone away in their caravan. I did send them Easter gifts though. We’ll probably have a visit from my daughter and her husband sometime over the holiday. My husband has been gardening all morning and we’re going shopping for new plants tomorrow. Our son will call us from 4,000 kilometres away and we’ll have FaceTime with our youngest grandson who is two years old. Our other daughter also lives far away but she’ll call us. It’s strange being old, no longer the centre of a large family but now on the perimeter, looking in. But we’re lucky they are all healthy and able to enjoy their lives. |
| Prompt:"A happy life must be to a good extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. "Bertrand Russell Write about this quote in your Blog entry today. To me this quote rings true. I can’t even think when I’m in a noisy environment. I love peace and serenity. I have to have peace to be able to to do anything. I can’t read or write when an outside noise invades my mind. Yet having said that, when I went to my yoga class last week the teacher told us she’d been taught to block out all external distractions. Her yoga teacher had once deliberately held a class in the middle of a construction site. His theory was anyone can choose to ignore what could be an annoying noise. I tried but I wasn’t very successful. As I get older I find the sound of a screaming child in a supermarket so hard to bear. Yet I was the same as that stressed out mother, years ago, and wonder how I tolerated the tantrums. I do love those lovely family get togethers when everyone is talking at once, I love music turned up loud and singing on the top of my voice, but I need those moments of quiet, listening to nature’s sounds. Then is when I receive my moments of pure joy. |
| Let this poem inspire your entry today: “Be gentle, Long Night I don’t belong here. Thrown to the wolves, I shifted nocturnal. Arced up, surrendered to the glowing drum of the full moon, hear my cry.” ― L.M. Browning, This poem is deep with innuendo and hidden meanings. To me it speaks of hurt and betrayal. We’ve probably all been in that dark place, when the ones we love, and thought loved us, betrayed our love. What we did in those times is different for all of us but eventually we dragged ourselves up out of the darkness. Or maybe we are changed forever and harden our hearts so we can never get hurt again. |
| “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” ― Frederick Douglass Sounds familiar doesn't it? Your thoughts on this quote. Your thoughts on what's happening in the US. Thanks for this prompt, Lyn. Donald Trump actually scares me. He’s tipped the whole world order on its head. He simply doesn’t care about anyone or anything except getting more money into the coffers. What is he going to spend all this new found wealth on? I don’t think he’s going to make the US a country which is going to be known for taking care of those who can’t afford medical treatment, or to house the homeless. Will he spend it on medical research to find a cure for cancer? No! He’s not a benevolent dictator but a dictator none the less. Everything that the US import into the country is going to cost more from now on. All the clothing which is made in countries such as Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam will all cost up to 50% more. People over there are going to lose their jobs, factories will close. I don’t think USA citizens will take up the slack and work for the same wages. China has been slapped with a 104% tariff! Imagine everything from China costing double? Australian beef 10% more. Mr Trump said today that two billion dollars a day, was pouring into the country from all the tariffs he’s slapped on every country in the world. What is he planning? Know one knows. Old people here in Australia have lost their retirement funds because of the stock market crash and are being forced back to work. So many lives are being affected negatively world wide by the actions of one man. |
| Prompt: Pets What is the most important reason for having a pet? And which kinds of people shouldn't have pets? When I think of a pet I think of dogs. Dogs are more than a pet. They are another member of the family. They simply want to be with you, no matter where you go. They can become an invisible shadow always watching. What other animal is so loyal? They know when you’re sad and will seek to comfort. They’re happy when you’re happy and never hold a grudge no matter what. Just stroking a dog can bring your blood pressure down and they help keep you fit, as who could resist those pleading eyes when they need a walk? I believe everyone could benefit from owning a dog but there are those people who don’t deserve their love and loyalty. If you’re a person who works long hours and doesn’t have the time to spend with your faithful companion, then perhaps you should consider getting a cat. Cats are much more independent and dislike disruption. They are happy to be alone so long as there’s food left for them. The downside of pet ownership is that they don’t live as long as humans, and if you’re lucky you’ll get fifteen or so years before they die. We have been lucky to have just four dogs over the fifty or so years we’ve lived here in Australia. Our beautiful Weinmarana, Lucy is getting old, along with my husband and I. I think we’ll be lucky if we have another year with her. We’re preparing for the sad day when she leaves us. |
| On this day in 1973 the first handheld mobile telephone call was made by an employee of Motorola, who called AT&T's Bell Laboratories. How important is a cell-phone to you? Do you still have a landline phone (telephone wired into your home)? Do you use your phone for more than making phone calls like playing games, taking pictures etc.? We no longer have a land line and rely completely for communication on our cell phones. We, my husband and I each have a phone although my husband is almost a Luddite regarding the use of his. I’m always reminding him to take the phone with him especially since his health and balance aren’t always totally reliable. I have an app which tells me where he is. He takes the dog each morning through the Australian bushland near our home. I always worry he might fall or trip so knowing his whereabouts gives me peace of mind. I have my credit card on my phone and use it for almost all my purchases. It’s simply a tap and go up to a hundred dollar sale without having to use a PIN. So if I have my phone I don’t need to carry money. My phone is synced to my IPad on which I do my online banking,so I’d be lost without my phone. I receive FaceTime messaging from my family, some who live thousands of kilometres from us. I was able to chat to my brother in the UK in hospital after his stroke recently on my phone. I listen to podcasts, music and the local radio station. I borrow library books and either read them on my phone or iPad. I use it for my mail, messaging and taking photos. I can watch movies, and stream television stations using apps, and I do all my writing for WdC on my iPad. In fact my phone is my everything.  |
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