The winds were howling today, winter has finally set in bringing rain and a coolness to the air that is called summer in England, a chill factor of 15 degrees. Time to say goodbye to summer yet again but the birds are having none of it, they remain nibbling away at the berries fairing the bad weather, they know that a cloudless sky is just a day away.
I sat on the patio/porch and looked out at the flock of birds sitting in the tree where there must have been close on 30 brightly coloured blobs with wings. They were chirping away in happiness when a light gust of wind came through giving them a fright, all took to flight in search of refuge but 3, they remained hanging on to the branch not resisting its movement. After a few moments the gust of wind died a way and I watched as they readjusted their positions, fluffed out there feathers realigning them with their beaks, the other birds returned and all were chirping once more. Not a moment later a gust came through again scaring the flock away once more, who remained but the three brave little mites. Once more they hung on for their lives, when the gust died away once more they went through the whole process of grooming once more.
These three birds held strong through the winds almost as if they understood how it works and why it happened, they were fearless in facing it and seemed to know how to work it unlike the others that fled en mass for cover.
What is the wisdom in those three birds? Are they the ones that were unwise to stay planted on that branch or were they the wise ones that had taken the time to understand how nature worked and why things happen the way they do, which is right?
Perception and interpretation are strange creatures so I will give you mine and you are welcome to share yours.
My interpretation is that of fear, why we fear. I feel that those birds that fled were fearful of something they did not understand, they did not want to learn the signs of a dangerous wind or a harmless one. In life we often see something that is dangerous because we don’t understand it, we run from it without pausing for thought or learning about firstly the reasons of/for our fear or how that one thing that scares us works.
In life we jump to conclusions which wastes time and energy, those birds that fled could have stayed with the other three enabling them to have more time in the open air before the rains came. Instead of cowering from those things we fear we should rather embrace them, try to understand them and how they work. By doing that we give ourselves time to be free and to live not cowering in the dark corner where we miss out on so much that life has to offer us.
The wisdom of the birds - don’t hide from things that you don’t understand, embrace them and learn from them, adapt to change and live your life fully, moment by moment.
Blow drying my hair is something I never do, it seems to take so much time and with my hair being straight it generally follows the principle of “Get out of bed and go” principle. This is not to say I haven’t tried in the past, though it’s always alone and when no one is looking because the reflection in the mirror often resembles that of a monkey trying to reach for a banana in the tree only to fall out of the tree like this …
When I look in that mirror, brush in one hand, the hair dryer in the other and try to get my hands to work as they should it all goes haywire to the extreme. Learning to look in the mirror and know how to work with the reflection takes time, patience and the willingness to learn.
In life there are many such mirrors, we often write them off because we plain and simply do not have time to waste on them, we are rushing from one thing to the next, always on the go. The reflection of ourselves or the opposite of ourselves (which ever perspective you would like to use) can irritate us and drive us crazy, our patience levels are tested and often we will just throw the brush down, switch off the plug and say good riddance.
Only problem is that no matter what we do, no matter how hard we try and run from the mirrors in our lives they will always be there. Perhaps it is better to stand there and learn how to deal with these opposites, learn how to work the situation, how to move and have patience. Life would then be easier, your hair wouldn’t get all in a tizz nor would it stand out in all the directions you were trying to avoid. Life would be simpler if we embraced the opposites, tried to understand them and work with them.
Not one person is the exact same as the next, embrace the mirror and learn how to blow dry your hair…
Embrace the differences for it means you aren’t a clone!
POST NOTE: No I am not like the monkey in the video but I thought I’d try and get you falling off your chair with laughter
You’re amazing (x 3)
I want you to always feel amazing (x 4)
You say you don’t know
How to do it now
So you run
It’s not that you’re bleeding
But you’re through it now
So you run
I know that you need it
You can’t live alone
So you run
So you run
Everyone says “You’re amazing!”
Now that you’re clean
Only you know who the real ones are
Cause you’ve seen
There’s only one question I want to ask
Is it healing when you hear
Everyone say “You’re amazing!” ?
Does anyone ask you?
Do you cry in your sleep
And do you feel okay
When you run?
Thinking its doomsday
You got to let it go
So you run
Pretend you don’t see it
That way you can live the lie
When you run
So you run
Everyone says “You’re amazing!”
Now that you’re clean
Only you know who the real ones are
Cause you’ve seen
There’s only one question I want to ask
Is it healing when you hear
Everyone say “You’re amazing!” ?
Does anyone ask you?
I want you to always feel amazing! (x 2)
Cause I know that you’re real - Amazing!
Amazing!
Amazing!
Everyone says “You’re amazing!”
Now that you’re clean
Only you know who the real ones are
Cause you’ve seen
There’s only one question I want to ask
Is it healing when you hear
Everyone said “You’re amazing!” ?
Does anyone ask you?
I want you to always feel amazing (x 3)
And I say you’re amazing!
You’re amazing!
Ok so perhaps I am slow or perhaps I just try and avoid anything to do with the word Windows as normally it is related to Microsoft. Came across Windows Live Writer tonight and alas this is me testing it out
On review…
Some great plug-ins you can add to spice things up, such as maps, slide shows, tag acronyms and Polaroid versions of your photos
Easier usability and if you are too lazy to head over to the HTML section the Writer has greater options for editing your posts i.e. font, font sizes etc
Adding the image below was painless, for those into the visual you can reshape, recolour, pretty much a basic version of Picassa… not bad!
Over all we shall see how it goes…
Please note that it doesn’t mean that I will use IE but hey they haven’t done a bad job so far (shock horror… waiting for it to crash boom bang…. oh its not Vista?)
If you are like me and were in the dark about this interesting blogging tool head over to Windows Live Writer to see why I am breaking the law about speaking about such things that shouldn’t be spoken about
… a ramble by Mumble the penguin with Happy Feet …
POST NOTE: I am stunned… it actually worked and worked well at that
Between you and me… I think that the blondness is now coming to terms with the fact that I am brunette once more…
Thought it strange after reading another post that I got this picture in my news update, so because I believe that things happen for a reason, here I post it, perhaps there is a message in it for you…
I think sometimes we truly believe that change is impossible, that all is hopeless and helpless in the world. These thoughts and feelings we have on the world could not be more wrong for there is proof in history of how times have changed, how things have evolved (for good or worse). The fact that they evolved means that it is still happening and that we all have a part to play, which side we choose is up to us. So here are some old adverts from way back when (or perhaps not so long ago)…
Look at each one and see what you think…
please note that I mean no offence by showing you these - they are merely to demonstrate how far we have come and what the media can do/endorse… I can also be very sarcastic again no offence but you are warned…
Can you imagine seeing this in the newspaper in this day and age?
Or this one for that matter…
I actually own one of these vintage Kenwood Chef’s makes a racket and takes close on an hour to get your hearing back! Then the cake flops leaving a hole in the middle for my caramel, my thigh’s are happy, my guests smile politely… I blame the Chef of course
How about this one?
(Please note if you want breakfast in bed feed me Mornidine perhaps I will be able to talk before my morning coffee (why did no one tell me about this miracle drug before???)
… and in case you think I’m a feminist which I am not …
(future mother-in-law watch out I have the cure!)
Did you know that beer gives you vigour and strength??? Hearing this makes me want to head towards the fridge and grab one… oh sorry I am now into alcoholized grape juice it is apparently full of vitamins (well that is what I’ve heard)
Well now had I known this… Next time I get in the cockpit of a plane I will be sure to … Is this not what they fed the Kamikaze pilots as well?
… This probably is one of my favourites… do you know that doctors endorsed smoking, doesn’t he just look so wise, it makes me just want to light up… *cough cough splatter*
… apparently perfection is in not having any wrinkles *looks at her hands, shrugs* oh well there is no hope for me…
No Ways! REALLY???
… and hence forth we have woman’s insurance, cheaper than the men’s …
… good to know … *scribbles reminder notes to get vitamins*
… nah … but is it illegal to kill a man?
I remember similar adverts in SA except it was to get better paying jobs… No comments for this one just revulsion
… Remember to always smell good, have your teeth brushed and your hair perfectly combed because your partner just might not “love” you … phah (I love the lipstick they put on this guy looks fab don’t you think?)
… and then we wonder …
… I smoke because it’s the quickest way to become cool … it’s the only way you know, so light up, inhale (I don’t want to be cool any more so I am quitting sniff)
… Don’t forget your medication folks …
(actually reminds me of Absolute Vodka adverts hmmm)
One of the only “ads” I approve of and I end with on purpose
These adverts can evoke anger, rage, sadness, wonder, some might giggle at the stupidity of them but this is now, back then it was matter of fact and daily living.
Fact remains… Do you see how far we have come? and secondly do you see how media can manipulate a society?
Morale of the story
Don’t believe everything you read
If you feel that all is helpless look towards the past in order to see how far you/we/society has come, it is normally one of the best indicators. Sure times change, different problems crop up but ultimately things evolve, they move forward… it’s up to us to make it a positive one taking the lessons from the past and using them for the good of the future…
… choice …
PS If you can’t see the pictures clearly I have attached the links so that you can see them in a new window
Do you remember when you were a kid, the wonder you felt when you discovered a new flower, how we would pick them and bring them to our noses, breathing in its sent and the smile that would come to our faces? Do you remember tasting a sweet for the first time, how the flavour took over your mouth, its intensity? Do you remember climbing trees with abandon or learning to ride your bike, the glee you got from learning, from being free?
Why don’t we feel like that any more, why do we lose that wonder we had once upon a time? We seem to get bogged down by expectations, those of others and then those that we put on ourselves. We seem to push and push never stopping to take glee in the simple things, a simple taste of something new falls away forever forgotten. We learn to fear new things, we don’t try something because it is against the grain, adopting the attitude that if it is not what we were taught we don’t try it.
Rat races of the world, politics, discrimination, cultural non equality, making ends meet, advertising space filled with inconsequential details flood our minds, chaos reins and it becomes second nature. We join the rat races hoping that we win never realising that by joining we lose ourselves, who we are, what we really are.
Life can sometimes get too much for us, it breaks us down, it breaks our spirits and we wonder why we are lost, we wonder how far down we have gone. If we’re not careful we face becoming empty advertising billboards without souls along the highways of life spreading more learnt chaos, distress, disrespect and hate.
I sit here watching my little niece, just three years old, dancing with the biggest smile on her face to Sheryl Crow, she doesn’t hear the words, she feels the music flow through her little body and she is life. She runs up to me in the mornings and with such excitement and happiness giving me the biggest hug and kiss in the world saying I wuv youuu, she cherishes without judgement, she is life. She eats ice-cream like I do, we both get it on our noses and laugh, we are life. Our advertising space is love, give, care, light, learn, hope, live… what does yours say?
Read the following lyrics and then watch the video and let me know what you think, what your advertising space says…
There’s no earthly way of knowing
What was in your heart
When it stopped going
The whole world shook
A storm was blowing through you
Waiting for God to stop this
And up to your neck in darkness
Everyone around you was corrupted
Say something
There’s no dignity in death
To sell the world your last breath
We’re still fighting over everything you left
I saw you standing at the gates
When Marlon Brando passed away
You had that look upon your face
Advertising space
No one learned from your mistakes
We let our prophets go to waste
All that’s left in any case
Is advertising space
Through your eyes the world was burning
Please be gentle I’m still learning
You seemed to say as you kept turning up
They poison you with compromise
At what point did you realise
That everybody loves your life but you
A special agent for the man
Through Watergate and Vietnam
No one really gave a damn
Do you think the CIA did
I saw you standing at the gates
When Marlon Brando passed away
You had that look upon your face
Advertising space
No one learned from your mistakes
We let our prophets go to waste
All thats left in any case
Is advertising space
No one learned from your mistakes
We let our prophets go to waste
All that’s left in any case
Is advertising space
I’ve seen your daughter man she’s cute
I was scared but I wanted to
Boy she looks a lot like you
So often we take people for granted, take things for granted only knowing their worth when they are lost. We take ourselves for granted, we lose ourselves with the greatest sadness being that so often we don’t even know that we are lost, who we are or what we care about in life.
Life crowds our heads, pressures force our spirits down, we have no time anymore for the simple pleasures of for those that we really care about. We allow society to dictate our likes and dislikes, we allow others to form our views on people, nations and cultures… Don’t let life crowd you so much that you lose touch with yourself, your true self, or those that you care about, those that have touched your heart.
Don’t wait till its too late to treasure these moments, start living again, start breathing again, smell those flowers, feel the wind in your hair and recognise it, feel the sun on your skin not just see it in the sky…
… Believe, Feel, Love, Give, Cherish, Hope, Live and listen to your heart…
All I can say is that I treasure each star in the night and I let those stars know because they are priceless to me, thank you my stars Mwah!
Don’t bother going through your motions.
Nothing that makes sense ever works out.
Don’t kid yourself, you know they want money.
Nothing can be good on its own merit.
Spinning and spinning.
Do you believe in what you want?
Dancing in plastic, shake-up snow.
Do you believe in what you want?
Put your trust in simple acts.
Make the flyers get them up all over town.
Don’t kid yourself, you know its for money.
Please keep in sight what makes you care.
You have it always.
Spinning and spinning.
Do you believe in what you want?
Dancing in plastic, shake-up snow.
Do you believe in what you want?
Your camera flash.
On us, meaningless.
You cannot waste a single night.
What you ignore is priceless to me.
Spinning and spinning.
Do you believe in what you want?
Dancing in plastic, shake-up snow.
Do you believe in what you want?
A little while ago I posted an article on Indigo Adults and Children, if that one clicked then perhaps this one will as well. Read the below paragraph’s and if it it strikes a cord click through to the link’s at the end, if not then think me crazy I don’t mind for there is always sanity in insanity…
The Indigo passages are particularly rough and difficult for a reason. They burn away the dross and lassitude and inner ignorance and fear and temper us for strength in our true work here. The personal victory over our problems in our personal lives and our discovery and use of the unique Indigo gifts we have gives us the depth of experience to weather the difficulties the entire world faces. With our own rough passages behind us, our job is to assume a role of mentor and quiet leadership for those who also seek Light. All the pain and suffering is our ‘been there, done that, here’s what I did to get past it’ card. And it teaches us perseverance and gives us a depth of inner reserve that will be needed in the difficult days to come.
Indigos of all ages are frustrated by the shallowness of society at large, because they like to dig deeply into things that interest them. If TLC or the Discovery channel runs an in-depth series of documentaries on a subject the Indigo is interested in, they are in hog heaven. But heaven forbid if the subject is superficially approached or lightly referred to, because Indigos want to know EVERYTHING, and RIGHT NOW. (And I say, thank God and the Cold War for the Internet.)
All Indigos are aware that they are very different from the rest of the people in this world. Depending on the influences around them, this can be positive or negative. Positively influenced Indigos can grow their gifts more easily in an encouraging atmosphere. Negatively encouraged Indigos have more of a battle, which can result in a heavy build up of pent up rage. This rage has to be adequately discharged and grounded in order for the Indigo to get in touch with his or her innate gifts.
Indigos like to make up their own rules and systems as they go along. They have an innate feel for the natural order of things, but to many people this ‘order’ looks a heck of a lot like total chaos. Older Indigos have an inherent distaste for big government and interfering systems, and quietly long for true independence from ‘systems’ like the economy, money, and salaried work. But they also have the common sense and intelligence to make these systems work for them, and understand that overt street protesting, violence and anarchy are not the way to go. Some will even hold their noses and involve themselves personally in these systems, using their Mission instincts to quietly change them for the better from within.
Religions both fascinate and repulse all Indigos. The genuine soul-felt knowledge that God/dess dwells within you is the kernel of Gnostic (which means “to know”) wisdom. Many Indigos become experts on many religions- dogma and ritual are fascinating to them, and they study them for their use as tools of Awakening. Sometimes they will even join a religious sect for a while, but generally do not stay.
We resist cultural gender programming. I have been told that I ‘think like a guy’ although I am a woman. If you test your Indigo children for ‘gender’ oriented abilities, you will find that each sex tests just as well in the ‘opposite’ skill sets. So girls will have high spatial and mathematical abilities, and boys will have high linguistic and cognitive abilities.
