Rest Like A Tree

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all.

From the Buddha’s teaching

Waiting For Santa

Just a quick post as we are all rushing around busy with our Christmas preparations
Are we wise to tell our children and grandchildren to 'be good or Santa wont leave you any presents'
Read this thought provoking article and let me know your thoughts

Bee-ing Busy and Enjoying Bee-ing Alive

'Bee-ing Busy'
Hand Dyed Cotton and Stitch
Julie Bull
2012

"Do not be afraid of life.

Believe that life is worth living

and your belief will help create the fact"

                           William James

Abuse in The Media

With all the focus on childhood abuse in the UK media at the moment I'm sure that like me many survivors have been affected by it and had bad memories triggered
Many people have been prompted to speak out for the first time about the abuse they suffered as a child
This takes a great deal of courage and after hearing  NAPAC CEO Peter Saunders saying in the media that the organisation are receiving a higher level of calls than usual I would like to encourage anyone who may be in this position to pick up the phone and seek help
NAPAC helped me so much when I first realised that my childhood experiences were NOT normal and they pointed me to sources of help that I still rely on today
Take care and stay safe
Julie

Thursday Thought

"Teachers open the door but you enter by yourself"

Chinese proverb

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Thursday Thought

"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world." Ada Louise Huxtable

Thursday Thought

One of the bonuses of loving yourself and loving others is that it makes you feel so good

Louise L Hay