Daily thoughts, conversation starters and insights into life.

Everyday brings something new ! 

There is no black or white !

Hard to believe when you look at your clothes and the objects that surround you. White is a combination of all the colours togethers, and black is a darker shade of. Look at the universe the colours we see in the swirling pockets of gas and the spinning galaxies are amazing but you would think the back drop would be white ?

All the colours mixed together but it is not ? Trying to figure out what is where and how come is as difficult as explaining 'time.

When we first look at anything we do not see what it is, we have to take a second, third even forth look, and still we may get it wrong.

I am going to start a Pod Cast

All the ideas and thoughts in one place, spoken. Seems like a good thing to do. 'Picking an Elephant up for Breakfast '

Each morning before I start work I do the very British thing of drinking tea. On my china cup is an Elephant - hence the title ! But Elephants can mean so much more. The weights I lift feel like a baby Elephant ! Some of the topics I discuss ' The Elephant in the room.' Plus the diverse life on this planet, I wonder if elephants exist else where ?

My Pod casts will be free. If you want me to talk or discuss any subjects please let me know.

Dread.

The thought of something is nearly always worst than the event. I was thinking about how we predict the future. We all try. Fast forward in our minds, see the event and work out the outcome. It never works out the way predicted !

And now I know why. It is because we are all pessimistic about our own lives. The outcomes we imagine are the worst possible ones ! Human nature ? Tell ourselves the bad news just in case ? Or do we really believe nothing good happens ?

That is clearly not true. It is a combination. A mixture of thinking drenched in dread.  How could it end well ?

I now reverse this self prediction. I believe that everything I have ever wanted is just a thought away. I tell myself I deserve the best outcomes.

I am now reset ! Time to enjoy the results !

I do not know about you but I can not get my head around reading books and newspapers on line.

I want the whole experience of the touch, smell and sight of a book. There is something special about the smell of type on paper.

The world is full of items to engage your senses, books are there forever once read, you can pick them back up and re read certain chapters. Just having books in a case is a reminder. My first introduction to reading was through comics. Tiger, Roy of the Rovers, Victor and the Beano. I had a pile of comics in my bedroom, each one read saved and numbered.

On line is good for many things, but it does not come close where books and newspapers are concerned .

Do it with a smile ! There are times that life can get us down.

The problem is we forget to enjoy. We have all come across mood hovers. They just suck the pleasure right out of anything they are involved in.

So today it is smile day ! Everything you do, you do it smiling. Not because you need to, but because you want to.

The Thought Behind Smile'

I was listening to a doctor who worked in a hospice. Her job was to make the final days of her patients memorable. She spoke about weddings, concerts and simple pleasures that had been arranged for those in their last few days of life.

Made me cry to think that these people were being made happy just before they died. This doctor said something I will never forget. "The reason I work in a hospice is because of the people, you will never experience a more loving atmosphere.

The love shines from the people who stay here." At the end of our lives surely the knowledge of happiness is right front and centre.

So why not now ?

.The Shed

About eighteen months ago I brought a shed. Well I was told it was a summer house ! But to me it was a shed ! It sat in it's place at the bottom of the garden dong very little. Never had a shed before that I could sit in.

Over the past few months the shed has taken on a different purpose. Two easy chairs, a few pictures, a radio and my shed has been transformed into a den ! Fantastic meeting place, friends come and go, the atmosphere inside reminds me of childhood !

It is a fantastic place to find peace, brilliant for meditation and mediumship. I love my shed turned den. But it took a crisis for me to realise ! We have what we need if only we choose to notice.

Aron Relston 

Does anyone know who this man is ? It is rare that I come across inspirational people but Aron certainly comes into the inspirational. Aron is an American outdoorsman, mechanical engineer and motivational speaker known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off his own arm.

Whilst trapped in the canyon for six days trapped by his arm, he had a vision of the future. He saw a little blonde hair boy - a son that he was to father four years later. He got free climbed a cliff and walked 7 miles.

An amazing story of survival. He now lives with his wife and his son that blonde blue eye child called Leo. What gave him courage ? The joy of relationships. Aron says - "it is the people in your life that matters, nothing else."