I received a convoluted phone call last night from one of my daughters asking my opinion of her choice. For that evening as there was guilt she felt.
You see, it was her birthday and she initially said she didnt want to go anywhere because she had run out of cash and so postponed the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Choices and Conseqences
Posted in Life on July 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Words
Posted in Life on July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A fragile day
glistens into being.
I hear
your silent words
falling about me
like tender caresses.
I wonder
Do you know
how deeply
your simple thoughts
move me?
‘Be true to the dreams of your youth.’ George Bernard Shaw
Posted in Life on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a speech by Lord Puttnam, producer and policy maker, from the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival, I pulled the above quote which jumped up and sang in my face. In the midst of a work day my thoughts turn to what my young dreams were. Away my mind and heart tripped tpo revisit the [...]
Some interesting numbers
Posted in Life on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
10g - That is the small amount of mushrooms you need to eat each day to reduce your risk of breast cancer by a staggering 64%, according to researchers at the University of Western Australia.
2.1 - That’s how much younger you will look if you eat the recommended daily serves of 2 fruit and 5 [...]
The Best Things in Life
Posted in Life on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I have not stinted on life and living I have walked the Red Carpet at film premieres, met and grown to know people mentioned in news reports (sometimes favourably – sometimes not so favourably!) , lived in many countries and savoured and tasted mny cultures far different from that I was raised to believe [...]
Waiting – “How much of human life is lost in waiting” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted in Life on July 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I have given much thought to waiting in the last few days. What is it? It is when you know there i something or someone ahead in time and you are not quite there yet in hours and days, or even moments.
I m not a big fan of waiting and in this age of [...]
