tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68538507331795951832024-03-14T01:45:16.098+10:30Musings from my Heart Living and loving every day of my life. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger861125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853850733179595183.post-29582824183230827352016-08-02T13:31:00.001+09:302016-08-02T13:31:50.533+09:30SUNSHINE <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome to Tuesday in Adelaide, where for the first time in a few weeks, the sun is shining. It is amazing the difference some bright blue sky and some sunshine makes to peoples mood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was in morning traffic and there were smiles, and drivers giving way and being generally courteous and home to destination took 15 minutes as opposed to the normal 25 mins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am impressed as to how much difference the brightness makes and am happy to share the sunshine by making this day as pleasant and happy as it can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wishing you love and laughter, kindness and care, lots of smiles and a very happy Tuesday when it arrives for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Welcome to August and welcome to STEVENS JOHNSON AWARENESS month, a time to educate and increase awareness of Stevens Johnson Syndrome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am a survivor of this and until I contracted it in hospital in the early weeks post Liver Transplant, was totally unaware of this condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/stevens-johnson-syndrome/basics/definition/con-20029623</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stevens-Johnson syndrome is a rare, serious disorder of your skin and mucous membranes. It's usually a reaction to a medication or an infection. Often, Stevens-Johnson syndrome begins with flu-like symptoms, followed by a painful red or purplish rash that spreads and blisters. Then the top layer of the affected skin dies and sheds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Recovery after Stevens-Johnson syndrome can take weeks to months, depending on the severity of your condition. If it was caused by a medication, you'll need to permanently avoid that drug and others closely related to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My recovery from this was due to the incredible nursing staff at Flinders Medical Centre who cared for me in the most amazing way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today is the first day of DONATE LIFE WEEK in Australia for 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The challenge is to ask yourself, and those around you at to What you are waiting for? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a big list of people waiting for Organ Transplants in Australia and I personally can vouch for the importance and value of this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I received a Liver Transplant in December 2009 because one Australian stood up and made the commitment to donate his organs after his death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was the lucky recipient of the liver and my life took a very big turn for the better and I have been well ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I take medication and keep appointments and would actively encourage you all to sign up on the Organ Donor Register, have the conversation with your family and decide to donate your organs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It isn't just the recipient who benefits from this - their family and friends are impacted by the fact that the recipient is still with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make the call, have the discussion, and please decide to donate your organs and help up to 8 people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nice coffee to start the day, laundry done and hanging in the winter breeze, vegetables chopped and chicken soup on cooking. Some phone calls made - a special call to Henry on the farm who is 9 years old today and very excited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a very ordinary weekend and to be enjoyed - the simple things of life - washing flapping in the breeze and the lovely smell of cooking. Nice music and warmth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am just a simple Aussie Girl, enjoying simple things and deciding today to not watch television news or listen to radio news and I guess the world will not go into a holding pattern while I take some time out to nourish and nurture my soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish you a peaceful and gentle weekend with nice things to nurture you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shopping is not my favourite was of passing time, but I am lucky to live close to a shopping Centre with two supermarkets, two pharmacies, a Bakery, and the best Gift Shop I have come across in a very long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My favourite Supermarket opens at 7.00.a.m. and my Pharmacy at 8.00.am. and most times by the time I have done the Grocery shopping, had some scripts filled it is time to pull up a chair at The Oreo Cafe for coffee and sometimes breakfast. A call at the Post Office and the Bakery finish off an easy excursion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />The members of Staff at this shopping complex are all rather lovely and make the chore of shopping much easier and brighter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I clearly admit how blessed I am to be able to shop locally and purchase the food I need from fresh supplies - everything from seafood to celery, coffee to cheesecake, tablets to trinkets - all at the one complex in pleasant circumstances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am blessed to have a warm home and food on my table and the medication I need and my lovely car to get me there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a lovely day and enjoy shopping if it is on your agenda and I hope you have a pleasant place to visit when you need to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has been to Inverness, Scotland to a conference and to present a paper and been gone almost three weeks and for my daughter three weeks too long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For me I find it hard when parts of the family are missing from the puzzle and with world affairs the way they are, I am always happy to have them arrive home safe and sound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today's technology allows us to monitor and watch the progress of flights which I rather nice and I have enjoyed his travels, but feel much better that in a very short time he will be back on the Terra Firma of home sweet home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome home Nick, glad to have you back home and wish you days relatively free of jet lag and time to enjoy the comforts of home.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Adelaide SA, Australia-34.9284989 138.60074559999998-35.7609274 137.30985209999997 -34.0960704 139.8916391tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853850733179595183.post-6604816851657602642016-07-27T17:01:00.000+09:302016-07-27T17:01:14.177+09:30CALM AFTER STORM <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sky is still a pewter grey and the sun is hiding, but the strong winds have calmed down. We have had more rain this far this year than for the whole of 2015 and the ground is soft and water logged. Our reservoir levels are much better than they have been for a number of years and that holds the promise of more water available for our hot summer months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't mind the rain, but the wind bothers me somewhat and I am glad to be able to report that we are forecast for a few dry and sunny days. Our winter seems cold, but is not nearly as cold as many have in the northern hemisphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am blessed indeed to have a warm home, a warm and cosy bed and a tasty warm meal on my table - I certainly don't enjoy the storms but I do enjoy the calm after the storm and the warmth of home and family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope your Wednesday has been a good one - or will be a good one and that you are at peace with your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good Morning on a wet and windy Tuesday - where the winds of change are blowing. I received a message this morning that my 16 week old Grandson is off to a Mums and Babes movie morning at the Theatre with his little friend Jasper and his Mum too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has a very busy social life - birthday parties, Lectures at the Art Gallery and Football Games and now the movies, - such a different way of life for babies today from when mine were small, where I stayed home and did very little apart from a walk in the park or a trip to the Shopping Centre. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think it is wonderful for little ones to be "socialized" and to be out and about and I would do it all so differently if I had my time over. I would make changes and, although my girls have become wonderful young women, they would get a different start in life. I have learned not to be afraid of change, to go with the flow and take the good from all situations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have told them to "go easy on the popcorn" at the movies this morning and to enjoy the company of other Mums and babies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Change is not always negative, there are so many positive things to come from change - we have to learn to accept and enjoy the changes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am hoping they have a great outing and enjoy themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome to Sunday in Australia, where the day had dawned wet and cold again but I am warm and cosy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warmth comes to us in many ways - a soft blanket, air conditioning, a roaring fire, hot soup, hot coffee, a kitchen warm from cooking. Snuggling in a warm bed, a cuddle from a loved one, holding a baby in your arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is the warmth of friendship, the warmth of tender care and family and the warmth of shared conversation and laughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is warmth in memories as we wander back and relive special times and celebrations and enjoy freshly made memories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made warm memories yesterday when I spent time with my girls and Felix, who is now 16 weeks old and very warm and responsive. We talked, laughed and shared so much in a short time. I felt the warmth of family and our special baby, who fell asleep in my arms. There is no other feeling quite so warm and special than to have a baby fall asleep in your arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My wishes for you for this weekend are for happy hours, for love and laughter,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wish for you solitude and time to relax and unwind, to contemplate the things that puzzle you and have you perplexed. Don't be afraid of time alone, it is a blessing and a healing time and a time to gather strength for the times ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you are unwell, take the time to rest, refresh and restore and if it is just the humdrum and bustle of daily living that has you tired - take the time to rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleep was not my companion and I spent some time thinking of how I could brighten the day for someone and I realized that it is often the little things that count and make a difference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is possible for each one of us to make a difference in the simplest of ways ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make a phone call, write a letter, smile at a stranger, bake a cake,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When out and about be sure to be aware of the little things around you - be aware of the wonders of nature - the dew or rain drop on the rose, the leaves blowing down the street, the white fluffy clouds and the rainbow above you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many more little things around you - be present to the moment and be aware of the little things and let them enhance your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take care as you go about your day and enjoy all that is around you and remember ~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am Thankful for so many things, and although, at times I am distressed by world events, this morning confirmed with me how very much I have to be thankful for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is one very special gift for which I am so very thankful - a beautiful little boy who is 16 weeks old and brings so much joy to me - my little Grandson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good Morning on a cold winter Wednesday and there is so much truth in this quote. Spring is pleasant and full of hope, but I am a Winter Girl and love the cold damp days and the cosy times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is so much to be thankful for and to enjoy - walks in the rain, splashing in puddles, wrapping up in hats and scarves and then coming home to warmth and the comfort of winter kitchen smells. Soups, casseroles, stews, home made bread and freshly brewed coffee. All the comfort of a warm bed, soft fluffy towels, a blanket wrap by the fire and a good book. Hot chocolate with marshmallow and raindrops running down window panes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sky may be grey and the trees bare of leaves, the wind may howl and blow, but I can find so much pleasure and beauty in winter days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall enjoy the changing of the seasons and the bursting and budding of springtime, but right now I am relishing the beauty of winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has been 16 months since I blogged and I have decided to make a comeback in a slightly different format.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is my intention to do a short morning blog each morning relative to my life and the things happening around me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We will share the changing of the seasons and world affairs and beautiful things, starting tomorrow Wednesday in my little corner of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall try to find something beautiful and positive to share with you each morning and bring joy to me and to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking forward to sharing my days with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good evening and hello from a lovely temperate city of Adelaide, where the sun has shone all day and gentle breezes have blown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My country is under cyclone watch on both sides - in the West Cyclone Olwyn is hammering the coast and wreaking havoc and in Queensland they are holding their breath as Cyclone Nathan bears down on them. Adelaide is not on the coast it is a City in a Gulf and I think that protects us from much of this cyclonic weather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been busy and missing in action and I apologize for that and this post will only be a short one as I am heading for bed with my book. I don't have huge plans for the weekend so I should be back into routine and posting normally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This lovely image above has so much of me in it (sure I am not the beautiful young thing posing here) but loving hard, laughing hard and rocking the boat are all things I relate to so well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of My Heart - a rebellious heart at times and one that breaks into pieces at the difficult world situations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome to Tuesday evening - it has been a beautiful day weather wise here in Adelaide - sunshine, gentle breezes and blue sky. A great to be alive day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have had no electricity for most of the day and it amazes me how quiet it is - but I was very pleased to have the power back on at 3.45.p.m. The round of setting clocks and catching up on things is a routine I don't particularly enjoy but all done and settled again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is evening and the day is closing in and becoming cooler and it is a beautiful time of day to consider all the things that are important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At this stage of my life I am not struggling to get a family fed and children ready for bed early - those days are over, so I do have more thinking time at this hour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love, family and friendship are such treasured possessions for us all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love is a word which means so much - as a wife, husband, mother, father, child. The love you share is special and binds us close as a family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The love of friends is very special - it is a caring and sharing and often confiding in that "special friend" the concerns and cares of daily living - often about the family.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Adelaide SA, Australia-34.928621199999988 138.5999594-36.593689699999985 136.0181724 -33.263552699999991 141.18174639999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853850733179595183.post-49007379758860744992015-03-08T18:44:00.004+10:302015-03-08T19:04:47.766+10:30INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good afternoon from a very pretty day in Adelaide - sun is shining and the sky is blue and the temperature is deliciously moderate - a beautiful autumnal day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On this International Women's Day I am thankful to those women who have gone before me and claimed many victories on behalf of all women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Green - Give. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">White - Women </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Violet - Vote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have actively encouraged my children to register to vote and to claim their birthright on voting days and they do this willingly and happily. They are daughters of a Woman of the Second Wave. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have come such a long way in most areas of our lives - we have women in Politics, Business, Diplomacy, Academia, Education and yet we still have much further to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The above six women have left their mark over recent years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Julie Bishop - Currently Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anna Bligh - First Female Premier of Queensland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Julia Gillard - First Female Prime Minister of Australia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are very lucky to have these women active in our world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This beautiful young woman is Malala Yousafzai who is blazing a trail for the education of girls throughout the world and in particular in her beloved Swat Valley of Pakistan and following in the footsteps of Benazir Bhutto who was assasinated. Malala wore a shawl belonging to Benazir when she addressed the United Nations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be proud to be a woman and be thankful for those who have gone before, be proud of those who struggle and encourage those who are yet to come on for the cause of women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many issues where there is work to be done - equal pay,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">child care, education, domestic violence issues and I am thankful too to the men of this world who support and encourage the striving of women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of My Heart - a heart thankful and encouraged for the cause of women generally - there is still much to be done - don't give up the cause and be sure to pass the baton to your daughters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good morning from Saturday morning here in Adelaide where the weather continues to be blissful and cool. They sky is grey this morning and holds the promise of rain, but I doubt that we are going to get more than a light shower if anything at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday mornings are lovely and generally quiet where I live and as I didn't have to shop today I have had the whole morning at home. My neighbour is mowing his lawns and the comforting sounds of normality surround me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I may have shared the image above before, but it is one of my favourites and takes me right back instantly to my early childhood days when my Mother cherished the thought that her daughter may become a ballerina - but the daughter had very different ideas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the lovely little girls in pink would front up to the barre and go through their steps while I would be doing somersaults and hanging upside down. I can still hear the teacher calling my name and see my Mother's distressed face. I didn't want to do Ballet classes and I would hide and have to be dragged kicking and screaming to class on the bus, and we would arrive late because of that. Yet she persisted and we would go through this regime every week and still I would swing on the barre. (A distant cousin however in later years did audition for Sadler's Wells Ballet in London) but that wasn't me !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted (and did eventually get) a pony and I wanted to walk through mud and ride with the wind in my hair - I certainly didn't want to wear a pink tutu and leotard. The thought of jodphurs with chamois leather knee pads and soft leather boots and a dark blue hacking jacket and dark blue velvet riding cap brought squeals of delight from the upside down little girl. That little girl would sleep with her cap on her pillow and her boots alongside her bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew then what I wanted and what was right for me and in many ways I have been "out of step" all my life and have held strong opinions on many many things and have always made those opinions known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have taken a stand many times for what I believe in - days of Vietnam Moratorium Marches in Adelaide would see me every Friday lunchtime protesting against the war. I have written letters to Newspapers, Parliamentarians, and Governments all over the world and today is no different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am vocal and loud in my support of Marriage Equality and rejoice that many countries have changed their laws so that people of the same gender who love each other can be married. Well done to those Countries and to the States in America that have changed their laws. 37 of the 50 States of America have changed their statutes. I have cherished friends who have now been able to marry with all the security and acceptance it brings and I rejoice for them. It is not Gay Rights it is Human Rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stand proud and tall in my rejection of the death penalty anywhere in the world and am vocal in my stance against the putting to death of the two Australian men on death row at the moment - I stand against the death pentalty for the men from Brazil, the Phillipines, France and anywhere else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many other causes I stand tall and proud to support - I am against Female Genital Mutilation and most definitely stand beside those of us who need a little more help along the way because of a disability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The world is a sadder place because Stella Young left us in December and is no longer here to shed her light and humour for her cause. Vale Stella. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be proud of who you are and what you believe in and stand up for it. Do it with dignity and pride and let your voice be heard - These are some of the lyrics of a song by an Australian Folk Singer Judy Small. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of My Heart - an active and proactive heart with very strong beliefs and very great care for my brothers and sisters in this world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good afternoon from Adelaide on what could literally be taken for a true autumn afternoon, the sky is mottled grey with patches of blue and it was quite chilly earlier on. A true and definite change in the season to be relished and adored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weather is a little crazy all over the world - my friend in Philadelphia claims their weather is "odd" too as it is snowing and very cold and only a few days from Spring and quite unusual for them. Adelaide usually can count on hot days in early March - in fact the whole of March. My younger daughter was born on March 28 and that was a very hot week, so I guess we could have some more hot weather to cope with. Despite the thought of more heat I am thoroughly enjoying the tempting taste of autumn days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the other side of the world Mother Nature will be waking the spring bulbs and they will be bursting through and dancing in the spring winds. Daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, daisies and the beautiful blossoms on the trees around us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love flowers and non more than the glorious golden daffodil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I read the quote at the top of this page I was reminded of my daffodils and how they push their way through cold and damp earth and herald spring with their beauty. They make their presence felt and are storm tossed and yet bend in the wind and don't break. Every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is like that for us - it seems we have to go through a lot of dirt to get where we are going and sometimes it is an immense struggle and days are difficult and long. We must push ahead through the cold and dark and head for the light of warmer and brighter days. When we do blossom how beautiful it is and ours is the victory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are going through the struggle to get your little shoots to spring forth through the dirt - persevere, be strong and you will make progress and in time will blossom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look around you and take in the beauty of the gardens that you see and the flowers that bloom. The bulbs that come from cooler climes than ours, the native flowers that grow and stun us with their beauty. The flowering gums, the Banksia and Warratah, to name just a few. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of My Heart and for sharing the joy of flowers with me today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good Morning from Adelaide where the weather is deliciously cool and the sky a pale blue with mottled grey clouds and a gentle breeze blowing. This morning I really noticed how much later the sun was coming up and marked this as a sure sign of the changing of the seasons and that autumn is on her way to us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Autumn is my favourite time of year "Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness" and those afternoons when suddenly there is a chill in the air and the day is drawing in and it is time to think of warming soups, stews and casseroles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The days when the slow cooker will be pressed into service in the morning and all day the house will smell of comfort food. The time of year to get blankets and warmer bed linen out and back on the beds and to find warmer clothes for the days. Time for hot water bottles or electric blankets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How blessed we are to have enough - enough food, clothing, shelter, friendship, support and love - I think most of us would honestly say we have more than enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We each do enough in our own way to be the support and strength for those we love and care for, for family and friends and there are times when we do more than we should and stretch ourselves to the limit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be enough means not to strive to be something that we are not - to just relax and accept ourselves for what we are and to be true to ourselves and it also means taking good care of ourselves too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No matter where you are today, no matter what is going on in your life and the lives of those around you - I wish you enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of My Heart - a heart that is well aware of having enough and doing enough and being enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good afternoon from a much cooler City of Adelaide where it has been overcast and grey today and gentle breezes have blown all day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have had a day without electricity due to the Company doing maintenance in my area - 6 hours without power - no washing machine, dishwasher, breadmaker, radio and no Internet !! It is amazing how much we rely on electricity and how quiet things are - no fridge or freezer purring and no fans whirring. I missed some Political events that I would normally have watched , but the world will not go into a holding pattern and I will catch up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How dependant we become and I think I missed "Google" most of all - just a click and type in a few words and the answers are there - I am a Google girl !!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It maybe a little thing or something very important - there is always some information to quench the thirst of my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been researching foods that are high in Magnesium and Zinc in the hope that I can get off the medications I take to keep up my supply of both. Bananas are high in Magnesium but are not my favourite since transplant - I don't like the smell, texture or taste - but I may well have to get over that and also increase my intake of green leafy vegetables, almonds and pumpkin seeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many little things around us that it shouldn't be hard to find a "little favourite thing" each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A flower in a garden, the aroma of coffee, the fragrance of a perfume. a pretty dress on a child, a favourite piece of music, a smile, the touch of a hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lovely feeling when we take our feet off the floor at night and slip into bed, a soft and downy pillow to lay our head on. A phone call from a friend or family member, the purr of a kitten, a welcoming wagging tail of a dog. Birdsong in early morning, the changing of the seasons, changing shadows, and the breaking through of spring bulbs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other little things that thrill my soul are a velvet ribbon to touch, a satin cushion, a beautifully crocheted doilie, a lovely black ink ball point pen and a fountain pen and ink refills. Special stationery and the sound when a letter drops into the post box and starts its journey to a friend. The lovely smell of winter casseroles and crunchy peanut butter on hot buttered toast. Puddles to splash in and rivers to watch as they flow towards the sea. Seaweed and seashells on the shore and the constant ebb and flow of the tides. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All beautiful and all simple things and there are thousands more I could mention - seek out and find your own special little things and value them each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look for the little things and you will find comfort and your sense of wonder will be enhanced and your steps a little lighter and your heart a little brighter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feel the wind in your hair and the sun on your back and walk gently though our world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of My Heart and I encourage you to bring joy to your own heart by finding a favourite little thing each day.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Adelaide SA, Australia-34.928621199999988 138.5999594-36.593689699999985 136.0181724 -33.263552699999991 141.18174639999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853850733179595183.post-17885240613263743412015-03-01T17:02:00.000+10:302015-03-01T17:04:32.647+10:30ONE OF A KIND <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.6000003814697px;">Wales is unique in so many ways - the lovely green hills and rugged coastline,the glorious golden daffodil, now unused coal mines and slag heaps and a legacy of music and poetry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a unique village just as the autumn days are unique to where you live -similar, yes, but unique - just as you are unique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of a kind - you may well have siblings that look like you do and have certain mannerisms and traits similar to yours, but you are all very different and there is no one quite like you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You are special, cherished and loved because of the individual you are - the small things that are peculiar to you, your smile, your laugh and your personality. Even identical twins are different in their persona and on meeting them we find it hard to differentiate but once we get to know them, their quirks and traits make it easy to tell them apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your kindness, ability to love and show care and so many other things are those things that make you unique and so very special.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of My Heart and for joining with me in celebrating our uniqueness and individuality.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Adelaide SA, Australia-34.928621199999988 138.5999594-36.593689699999985 136.0181724 -33.263552699999991 141.18174639999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853850733179595183.post-73141388742678527902015-02-27T14:00:00.000+10:302015-02-27T14:00:42.185+10:30REMEMBER TO PLAY <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was fun to watch them try to teach the "oldies" games with their fingers and to hear their laughter. Silliness indeed does make your soul smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Play is such an important part of life and it delights me to see young and old playing together in many ways. I have enjoyed watching a very young one try to teach John how to play a game on the iPad and I watched another little guy trying to teach John to play finger games last night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grace, Henry and I have played blowing bubbles, building cubby houses and painting finger nails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of my Heart and for sharing the silliness in life and I hope there are funny things about for you in your lovely day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good morning and welcome to Thursday morning in my little corner of the world where the sun is shining and the birds are singing. It is going to be warm today and hotter still tomorrow and then another cool change will carry us into March and Autumn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have every chance of the sun shining on my face and the gentle breezes blowing and if you don't have that where you are - try to remember the warmth of the sun and the touch of the breeze as you wish and long for warmer days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Laughter is so important and healing and healthy and I have learned to laugh at myself and some of the silly things I do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will share a silly/funny thing I did this week - I have been getting quotes for a new screen door on the front of my home and had three quotes. We then saw an advertisement on the back of the local paper and submitted the request for a quotation. What I didn't realize until the man arrived to measure and quote was that this company was one of the original three. !!! When the guy walked up to the door and said "I have been here before" I could only reply with "Yes, you have" and then apologise for the inconvenience caused. I felt silly but had a big chuckle at myself later in the afternoon. He must have thought I was a very silly old lady - but it brought a smile to my day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you recall the laughter of your children - the endless giggles and chuckles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take some time and watch these gorgeous babies laugh and laugh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is difficult not to smile when watching this - I hope you enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We live in a troubled and distressed world and I believe we need all the love and laughter we can get to lift the gloom and help us to get through the difficult days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Important thought though about laughter, laugh with people and not at them - share the humour without ridicule and pain for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have learned to laugh at myself and it is very liberating and good for my health. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Going to post something that will bring a smile to those who have had the experience of hospital gowns and times in hospital - this always makes me smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a wonderful day and one filled with smiles that will cheer you as you make your way through it. Look for humour in your world and enjoy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of My Heart and for sharing the joy of love and laughter with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take care,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love and hugs,</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Adelaide SA, Australia-34.928621199999988 138.5999594-36.593689699999985 136.0181724 -33.263552699999991 141.18174639999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853850733179595183.post-44935361945990600252015-02-25T09:54:00.000+10:302015-02-25T09:54:21.793+10:30HOW TO HAVE A LOVELY DAY <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good Morning from a beautiful Wednesday morning in Adelaide where the sky is blue and clear and a gentle breeze is wafting around. My elderly cat is sitting in the sun and washing after her breakfast and I am sitting here with a cup of Earl Grey tea - life is good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is Wednesday and Wednesdays hold a special place for me - my surgery for transplant took place on a Wednesday and each week Wednesday is another milestone for me. I greet Wednesdays with a smile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of the above suggestions for how to have a happy day are excellent and can be adopted easily and will certainly contribute to your day being a happy one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is up to you how happy or unhappy your day is - your attitude to the day has much to do with the tone and mood of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smiling at strangers is an easy thing to do and very often it may be the only contact that the person has - many live alone and crave human contact and a smile from you may make all the difference to their day and life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slow down - and it doesn't mean just in traffic - it means with the whole concept of your life - stop, take some deep breaths and look around you - if you don't slow down there is much that you will miss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please and Thank you words that are small and effortless but make such a difference to life in this busy world - if someone moves over and lets you into traffic - acknowledge that with a wave of thank you and you can pay it forward further in your journey by letting someone in to your lane of traffic. Manners are so special and should be taught from the word go - respect and appreciation is so very important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Give lots of compliments - if you think someone looks nice - tell them - admire a hairdo, a handbag, the way a colour looks on someone - compliments are very special and will not only make someones day but it will certainly put a positive tone on your day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dress nicely and wear perfume - oh yes indeed ! There are some days when I don't go out at all and dress as though I am going to the Office and always wear perfume at home and out and about - and I will often compliment someone when their fragrance meets me. I love this idea of how to have a lovely day - I really love perfume and fragrance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Observe and listen - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">listen and sometimes the best thing you can do it not respond or reply - just the fact that someone is heard is so often enough for them to have a good day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be charming - I have no doubt you can all be charming and putting aside your worries and cares will allow you to be your charming self and brighten not only your day but the day of those people you encounter on your way through your day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Laugh - at funny comments, at yourself, and with those around you - laughter is good for your health and good for the health of our communities and our world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Share your laughter with adults and children alike - laugh til it hurts - make it a good and hearty chuckle - it is a very good form of medicine and if it doesn't seem to be working - then double the dose. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take care of yourself and be safe as you are out and about in our world - and follow some of these guidelines and you are sure to have a lovely day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting the Musings of My Heart and I wish you all a very lovely day - remember it is up to you how you day goes. Talk to someone and have coffee with a friend and just enjoy your lovely day.</span></div>
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