Never underestimate....

Do not judge.....

Enjoy the little things....

Many children learn....

....'knock knock' jokes as one of their earliest forms of spoken humour.  Subconsciously, we come to associate a caller at our door with a bizarre comedic development. Perhaps this is why, when opportunity knocks, we do not always take it very seriously. When this possibility arises for any of us, though, it's no laughing matter.

Once you have taken advantage of it, you may well feel inclined to smile. But first, you must see it and seize it.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Let's do something different....

......And I do like different.......So, let's have a quiz. The answers could prove very helpful. Q1: When is the darkest hour? Q2: What do you have to recognise that you've got, before you can find a solution? Q3: What never lets you down if you never let it go?  I suppose I should write the answers upside down, but even I'm not that clever! So, instead, just stand on your head please!

A1. Just before the dawn. A2. A problem. Did you get those right? How did you do with Q3?          A3 is 'faith'.

Often, that's all any of us need to remember.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and quietly steals away.   (Larson)

As if we do not...

...have enough to test and try in our daily lives, we have our own imaginations to contend with. These ensure that we can never fully relax. Always, there is something to be nervous of. No matter what the scenario, we are capable of conjuring up negative associations. Or of seeing within it a pessimistic possibility.

Worse, our imagination will often insist that it is not even talking to us - that it is, in fact, the voice of common sense.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.   (Epicetus)

I've absolutely no idea...

....how many adults there are in the world, but you can be sure that for every adult there is a closet. Those closets all have skeletons in them. Those skeletons, though, have long since lost most of their identifying features. They are not very interesting. The only power they possess is the ability to seem slightly shocking when you first open the cupboard door and they leap out at you from the dark. 

Shine any kind of a light on them for any length of time and they soon become a pile of boring old bones, relics fit for nothing.

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits