REMEMBER TO PLAY

Good afternoon from a hot Adelaide where the sky is clouding over and a cooler change is on the way - it is calm and no winds are blowing.

We had dinner out last night and there were four children and it was lovely to watch them and to see the good job that their parents are doing in raising them.

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.

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.  

Grace, Henry and I have played blowing bubbles, building cubby houses and painting finger nails.

It is the time we spend with the children in our lives not the amount of money spent on them - the fun times, the play and the conversation.

Be funny, be silly and have fun - both with the children and with the adults in your life - be a little silly and let your soul smile.

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.

Love and hugs,

SATURDAY ~ SHARING THE JOY

Good Evening and welcome to my Saturday morning and very early in the morning for the Northern Hemisphere - another wonderful temperate summer day for me in Adelaide and I know other places around the country are suffering heat and in many places the rain is still falling.

"To have joy one must share it" and I believe these words are very true that a joy shared is delightful and delicious.   Shared laughter and silliness brings untold joy,  when with a friend you can just laugh at nonsense things and enjoy the time.    Friendship is such a special gift - we can share laughter, we can share tears and can work together on projects 

I love the times when I can sit with a friend and almost shut the world out and just pour out the things that are delighting, concerning or troubling us - I am blessed indeed to share such a friendship. 

I think it is so important that we as adults don't forget how to play, how to amuse ourselves and mostly to laugh at the fun and good times.  We often take life far too seriously and there is so much benefit to be had from laughter and fun.   We seem to need to have children around to play, but we shouldn't really.   

Learn to laugh and sing and be just plain silly at times - it is very liberating and charges our batteries - I love it all.

I have had a day of letter writing and got about a dozen emails away and some overseas mail ready to slip into the post tomorrow and also about eight letters to friends who don't have email.   This is the post Christmas response and they will be waiting for the mail - seven weeks since Christmas I guess that isn't too bad a length of time.  My excuse before now was that I didn't have a working printer to print the photographs, but that excuse went out of the window about two weeks ago.   I achieved today and it is a lovely feeling.

I am playing scrabble on line with a friend in Kentucky - we rarely speak or email these days, but whenever I check in - I think of her and know that she has thought of me when she played her next move.   Thank you Suzanne.

My days are full and happy and my health is good, I have friends and family and I am loved and cherished ~ there really isn't much more I could wish for and I hope that you have the joy of these things in your life.   For me I can truly say that "The joy is in the journey."

Wherever you are in this beautiful world as you read these words know that I send good wishes your way for love and laughter, magic and music, sunshine and starlight, peace and plenty and of course wishes that you are able to play and be silly sometimes.

I am not good at Goodbyes and don't like the hurried ones and find it so important to say to those I love that I do love them - it is such a special thing to hear ~ "love you more."

Thank you for visiting the Musings from My Heart on this wonderful Saturday evening where my sky is full of diamonds and there is a gentle breeze blowing.  I have a joyful heart this evening.

Love and hugs,

( I know it is a Christmas tag, but it is for the word JOY)

IT'S THANKFUL THURSDAY AND I HAVE SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR

Good Morning and welcome to Thankful Thursday and I have so much to be thankful for - a quiet home, a blue sky, sunshine, a cool breeze, nice coffee and soooooooo much more.

I have the freedom to come and go as I please and the opportunity to become as involved or not involved with things dear to me and that is happening for me at the moment.    Two years post transplant and I am feeling well enough to step outside my circle and take part in other things.

We attended a Transplant Australia Meeting here in Adelaide last night and it brought me great joy to meet with Chris Thomas (CEO of Transplant Australia ) and a group of like minded people, keen and eager to promote all facets of organ and tissue donation and transplant.

I met a lady who was Liver transplant number 18 at Flinders and I was number 194 - it was a nice connection.  There was laughter, good discussion and great coffee.   I have undertaken to be part of a group for "brain storming" ideas and it will involve meetings which I love.   I actually enjoy meetings and good discussion - and of course couldn't and didn't keep my mouth closed,

I also had the opportunity to express my thanks for the positioning of the Memorial Rose Garden here in Adelaide.    It is right on the edge of a big arterial road into the city along which travels the tram and buses and it is also on a flight path to Adelaide Airport.   During last year's ceremony I became aware of just how significant the positioning is - it is right in the middle of "life" and that's what transplant is all about.

During the meeting last night as part of the introduction we shared if we were South Australian born and bred and Chris Thomas mentioned his connection to Pinaroo in South Australia and it is the next town in the Mallee to Lameroo (where John's family have connections) and that the family name in his line was O'Loughlin.     I received a phone call this morning from Chris who has checked out the family tree and John and Chris are indeed related - and I think I have it worked out that his Grandfather and John's Father were cousins.  What a small world and this is often the case in sleepy old Adelaide.

It was a great evening after a busy afternoon of attending an appointment and today has left me tired but I am thankful that I don't have a busy day and can rest if needed.

I am thankful today for the opportunity to talk with someone and share the load a bit and to laugh a little too but especially I am thankful for the joy he is feeling right now as he waits for the mail.

I share that joy and the hope that lives within his heart.

Sharing joys and sorrows, cares and woes is a good thing - it allows expressions and having shared, to perhaps let things go and the joys bring joy to others and that is certainly a blessing.

I have just come back inside from chasing laundry round the garden - very strong gust of wind took some of it off the line and I got silly and giggly as I chased it around.   Laughter is something for which I am always thankful for and the ability to laugh at myself - a learned skill which is great.

As I close this post for today - I wish you an easing of your pain, someone to share your joys and sorrows with and some silliness to make your soul smile.

Life, with all its ups and downs is still very beautiful and the joy is in the journey. 

Thank you for visiting the Musings from My Heart and for sharing my joys and sorrows, love from my heart to yours - I have a giggly thankful heart today.

Please remember to sparkle and shine.

Love and hugs,

Linda

*** I try to be all of the things mentioned on the clipping at the top of this page............ bold, proper, thankful, crazy, punctual, daring, spontaneous, loving, random, classy, original, loud, adorable, unique, kooky and I hope I can be beautiful (from the inside.)