Team Stewart riding for a cure

Team Stewart riding for a cure

Please Support My friend Roy Stewart who is undertaking a challenge..
Raising awareness for Cancer and Hepatitis

http://myepicride.blogspot.com/2012/01/team-stewart.html?showComment=1325993078478#c3486974495078019714

Following your Bliss

A friend recently started a web Project for a few creative friends to share, stories, knowledge, ideas, just to keep our juices flowing and our brains glowing.. As always a wonderful inspiration to me so thank you Eva for sharing your Bliss and fuelling my near dormant creative juices.

I have been busy myself living the experience of following my bliss, since last my posting.

A very wet start to 2011, and many decisions to make, left me feeling very uncreative, focussed on only the practical elements of life, after much contemplation, I knew this is not the place for me and  I decided to return to the home of my heart North Queensland, and am now very happily living in Cairns.

It was important for me to not only talk it but to  also walk it, and as I have discovered since my arrival following your bliss creates a fertile environment for all else to become blissful..

After being flooded in Brisbane, then arriving only days before the biggest Category 5 Cyclone Yasi I was in  equal measure excited and terrified at the same instance. Fortunately I survived both.

 The hardest choice was to stay in the familiar reaches of the Tablelands and endure another cold winter but be closer to friends or to brave it and return down the mountain to Cairns itself and begin the process of establishing a life, where I really did not know many people at all anymore.

I have been in Cairns for one month now, have reconnected with some old friends and made some new ones;  It is a challenge at times but Following my bliss is a challenge I can endure....

The End in Site..2010 the end is nigh.19 Days Until New Years Day 2011

We all end the year in different ways with varying rituals. here are just some of the traditions from around the world.


New Year Traditions

Australian New YearIn Australia they celebrate the New Year on January 1. This day is a public holiday and many people have picnics and camp out on the beach. They have parties that start on December 31 and at midnight they start to make noise with whistles and rattles, car horns and church bells. To ring in the New Year. In Australia New Year is a day for outdoor activities such as rodeos, picnic races and surf carnivals.

New Year Traditions

Scottish New YearThe Scottish New Year is known as Hogmanay and both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day were also known as Daft Days. The first Monday in January is a holiday and is referred to as Handsel Monday. In Scotland New Year's Eve is called Hogomanay or Night of the Candle. Foods such as three cornered biscuits called Hogmanays are eaten. Other foods that are special at this time of year are wine, cordials, cheese, bread, shortbread, oatcake, currant loaf and scones. After sunset people are known to collect juniper and water to purify the home. The Scots prepare for the New Year by cleaning their houses. This was believed to have been a purification ritual. They would perform a ritual of burning juniper branches which they carried throughout the house so as to remove any lurking germs and diseases. The food they would eat at New Year was Haggis, shortbread, scones, oatmeal cakes, cheese, whisky and wine as well as traditional New Year black buns. The first person to rise in the morning used to take Het Pint spiced ale to those members who were still in bed. In Scotland an old tradition that still is relevant today is that of the first footer which is said, that whoever the first person to set foot into your home on New Year's day decided the family's luck for the rest of the year. This was based on the belief in the magic power of beginnings. The start of the New Year controlled its future course. The person most welcome on new year's morning was a tall, dark haired man and especially if he bought a gift as this was considered magical as his handsome features would make the year a pleasant one and his gift of a loaf of bread, or a shovel of coal would ensure that there would be no lack of food or warmth in the household. Any other type of person who was to set foot in your home on New Year’s morning would spell disaster. Therefore people would subtly arrange for the right person to arrive. They would light bonfires so as to dispose of the old year and sometimes a straw figure known as "the Auld Wife" which represented the old year would be thrown onto the bonfire. One method used in the old days to remove evil spirits was to banish the evil to a cat or dog and scare them away. On New Year's Eve they all link arms in a circle and sing the traditional New Year songAuld Lang Syne. After welcoming the New Year, all the people of the household would wait to see who the first person to enter the house after midnight will be, as this person would indicate whether they would have good luck or bad luck for the coming year. The first person must be a dark haired male, young virile, good natured and prosperous. He should not be empty handed and was supposed to bring with him a small gift such as a piece of coal, bread, salt as they were symbols of life. On New Year's Day children from Scotland rise early to make the rounds to their neighbors singing songs. They are given coins, mince pies, apples and other sweets for singing. This must be done by noon or the singer will be called fools. In some Scottish villages barrels of tar are set on fire and rolled through the streets. This is done to burn up the old year and to allow the New Year in.

Opinions

Opinions........My thoughts on them.

everyone has one, an opinion that is, on pretty much everything.

There is an art to having an opinion. I have an opinion on anything you may wish to converse about, my opinion could be  knowledge based, or it could be that in my opinionI don’t know enough on the given subject to have any opinion at all, still an opinion.

If I express my  opinion on any given topic, then that is exactly what it is, ‘my opinion’; if you have similar thoughts or value systems you may agree  or disagree with my opinion, to any extent dependant on your own knowledge being more or lesser to mine.

Then again you may wholeheartedly disagree with my opinion. Does that make either of our opinions wrong? I think not, that is why it is yours or mine to own as our individual opinion.

I accept with respect your opinion as yours, even should it differ from my own. Can you say the same?

If I give my opinion and it differ from yours, accept my opinion as mine, I own it and have no expectation of you to change your own opinion to suit mine nor do I have the expectation that if yours differs from mine you should become angry or defensive as if my opinion has attacked you.
This is why it is an opinion.

12 days to Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming,
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree! 

A new phase beginning

I have moved from my cosy country cottage, with engaging in the wider world as the plan. I am set up and am in the process of collecting all my writing’s and putting them on this blog. I started this  blog but have not followed through, time to do so. I’ve much to share and I hope to find some one who cares, enough to read my ramblings at least. So if that is you with naught else to do, enjoy be entertained and leave a comment so we know you were here...

There will always be thoughts on dragons to slay, but also of fun, sun, laughter and play...

So tomorrow with thoughts anew some more writing I will bring to you.

Response to a fellow writer and dragon slayer

http://www.facebook.com/notes/eva-day/the-gift-of-fire-by-eva-day/482899083178


This is my reply to a fellow writer who is on the home run


Like a bear we hibernate, alone in in our cave of despair. Waiting for the sun of our lives to reappear.. The golden rays to shine down on us, to renew and energise.

our distorted mind tells lies, says we will never feel those rays, we are changed for all our days, and nights will never bring respite. We are warriors, we are champions we tell ourselves, why then can we not win this fight.

We have battled with with more monsters than the Dragon on his own for he brings with him compadres we have never known, the creatures that he brings his partners in crime, fear pain,doubt just to name a few, itching twitching a dreadful brain ague..

I know the battle for I have fought it twice, both times I fell at the feet of this dragon crowing my defeat.. No Surrender No Retreat Is my warriors call.. I will kill you, destroy you, I will make you die. Alas he says you have no chance for I live strong within you.

There are more ways to kill a dragon that fill it up with drugs, I decide my next battle will be to kill the beast with love.

I love my Dragon with all my being, He is unclear uncertain he thinks about fleeing..Love you say... Is not my way, I feed upon your pain, you have nothing to win and nothing to gain, go on, go on, take those drugs again let me feel your anguish fear & Pain.
But I will not subscribe to the dragons deep desire, I will take another tack to get this monster off my back..

I laugh I smile I fill my world with Joy, for the dragon hates the brightness of laughter love and Sun. he quakes and shakes and withers in the light of joy, his warriors post a swift retreat. To neat, to sweet, to light to fill their bellies.. They need the pain they want our fear, to decimate us.

Victory we cry as we withhold the repast they desire.. I am a dreamer, a high wire flyer... So as you count these last days down. fill the space with smiles again, use your loving wiles to deny this dragon his last repast starve him of anger, of fear of pain. feel the sun coming back and learn to smile and feel joy again.
This is the last battle of the dragon you fight, perhaps the hardest, definitely the most light..So open the curtains, arise from the couch, remind yourself what it was like when your world was bright, smile at your man and start a new day for you soon you will have the energy required to play...

The campaign is done, you amongst us have won, you have fought in the trenches, battled at the front line..Rise up Rise up...The War you have won........A new life for you is waiting to be done....Practise your skills and make yourself smile...30 days or less my beautiful child....