Monthly Archives: January 2012

Thank you!

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

The tally of hits on my blog has just gone over 4000. So a big thank you to all the people who pop in to read posts, who have clicked “follow”, who link from Facebook and Linkedin or via search … Continue reading →

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Juicy!

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

I regularly use this phrase “I love to get the juice out of things.” But what do I mean by that? For me it is about looking deeper, looking wider and looking again. It might be “getting the juice” out … Continue reading →

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Head space

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

I’ve had a “thank you” card to write for over a month now. A month ago busy, distracting life events stopped me attending to the card and the special thought I wanted to put into the words I would write. … Continue reading →

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Chinese New Year and a planter bowl of red impatiens

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

It is Chinese New Year today according to my calendar and red is a colour strongly associated with this event. Red was also one of the theme colours in our recent family wedding and a colour I love and wear … Continue reading →

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Monday quote by Robert Fulghum

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

A fellow blogger reminded me recently of the writing and wisdom of Robert Fulghum. I particularly like this quote taken from his work “All I ever really needed to know I learned in kindergarten”. I was really pleased to learn … Continue reading →

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Brushstrokes in the sky

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

On Tuesday this week my attention was captured once more by the cloud formations. There have been some really interesting and different clouds around at times in the past few weeks. It was a hot, sunny, blue sky kind of … Continue reading →

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Sunday quote

Posted on January 15, 2012 by

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. On that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. … Continue reading →

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One man’s pest is another man’s pleasure

Posted on January 14, 2012 by

As summer progresses I see in my garden that there are two pest plants busy flowering. The first is Montbretia, an escapee from over the fence and into this Choysa Ternata in my garden. Every year I pull out as … Continue reading →

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The Garden of wisdom

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

This piece was read out as part of a speech at our recent family wedding. There are many versions of it and different titles for it and the original source seems buried in the mists of time. But the advice … Continue reading →

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Global readers

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

Early this year WordPress.com sent me a report on my blog for 2011. I was really interested to learn that I had had at least one person in the following countries read my blog. New Zealand, Australia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, … Continue reading →

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