Monday, 16 December 2013

Can you juggle?....

....It's not that hard, I'm told, but I've never mastered the art. Well, apparently, it's not that hard to juggle two balls anyway. Once you get to three, it becomes trickier. If you can work successfully with three, there's only one thing to do. Learn to work with four. And after four? Five, of course! What is life without a challenge to rise to? On it goes until you find yourself facing a struggle so great that you will be busy for the rest of your life with it.
 
 
 
There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you are enjoying it.

Friday, 13 December 2013

I've heard this track....

....many times.  This has to be the best version, or very close to the best -

Celtic Woman / Chloe Agnew - ''O Holy Night'':

Monday, 9 December 2013

There is often a lot....

....to be said for a policy of restraint and caution. Wise people are forever telling us how many decisions made in haste are regretted at leisure. But yet sensible-sounding arguments like these are also often used to justify many a process of pointless prevarication. The real question now is, 'What can't wait?' What regrettable consequences may ensue from allowing an unnecessary delay? That has to be the key concern.
 
 
 
Don't create false urgency but where urgency is real, respect it.

Saturday, 7 December 2013

You know what you know.....

....As for what you don't know? Well, you don't know it, do you? So far, so simple. The trouble is, sometimes, we think we know what we don't really know at all. And then we dangerously act on assumptions that are usually built on sand.
 
 
Sometimes, too, we know something, yet for some strange reason, we don't really know that we know it! Only when our knowledge is put to the test, do we discover how far it extends.

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

I'm having a....

 ....short break for a couple of days. 
 
 
You may like to have a look at this link, although some of you will probably have read it elsewhere.  It just goes to show - don't give up hope.   (You never know - one day I may even have somewhere to live.)
 
 
 
To love means loving the unlovable. Faith means believing the unbelievable.  Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.   (G.K.Chesterton)

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Loving someone or....

....knowing that they love you is not a licence to abuse or antagonise them. It is never okay to hurt someone's feelings, just because you suspect that you will be 'safe', even if you do.
 
 
We all need to learn to show each other more respect and to treat the people we are closest to with the same degree of deference and civility that we might show to a stranger.

Sunday, 24 November 2013

How many books....

......offer to test your personality or measure your IQ?  (I can't tell you that without an abacus.) None, though, offers you the opportunity to assess your sanity. Now, why might this be? Because such publications would not sell? Or because, despite the claims of erudite professionals, there is absolutely no reliable way to make such a judgement. One person's sanity is another's madness - and vice versa.
 
 
So who can say what's crazy now? If you are happy with what's happening, enjoy it. If not, change it.