Lunga wearing Hogmanay Snowbib

Well here we are in 2010 with all the Hogmanay shenanigans behind us. This is wee Lunga on New Years Eve getting ready for a party, oblivious to the hassle we'll have getting the snowballs out of her furry chest! 

Anybody out there make any New Year Resolutions? It's strange that we only appear to have one sacrosanct night of the year to mark by resolving to stop being, or  stop doing, things that we know already do not serve us on whatever level. Often we choose to mark this occasion with a vow to keep to our word for good. Why? Few of us keep them with any consistency and then beat ourselves up when we fall from our pedestals. Try this on waking: "Just for today, I will not judge" "Just for today, I will lay off chocolate" "Just for today, I'll abstain from alchohol"  "Just for today I will not worry etc. etc. etc. Renew your resolution every day and take away the pressure of huge targets and avoid the huge guilts-It's easier taking each day as it comes! If you slip up, don't berate yourself{You are only human!!} Start the next day afresh without adding guilt and judgement to your daily goals.   

Stone jigsaw patio

I made this patio a year ago and thought I'd post it for posterity. Having seriously hurt my back, I've given up building. Typical healer-just can't sort myself. Finished a stone seat recently that I think you will like and will post it when we are free of snow. From now on I'll be focusing on the clinic; am off to Norway in February, having been asked back, which I'm looking forward to so will let you know how I get on. Tomorrow is Hogmanay{as we say in Scotland} and I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you, my brothers and sisters everywhere, a Wonderfull Happy New Year!!

Lethendy sunset

I caught this image at sundown today from the stubble field across from the house.

It's boxing day[or has been], we are just back in from eating out and I am so full up I cant think of anything meaningful to say except that I'm very grateful to have a full tummy.

Christmas Day

Happy Christmas everyone! As you can see we are still looking snowy here but the roads are clear. How was your day? Did it bring you everything you wished?- All the presents opened, all the food eaten, most of the wine drunk, all the loving words sincerely said, those loved ones contacted at long last as 10 years later we still can't remember why we fell out or if , indeed, we ever fell out at all; pride, ego, the willingness to die just to be right...make it a Christmas to really remember-make that call and remember that "It is not so important how well a message is received, but how well it is sent" {Conversations with God Book 1 by Neale Donald Walshe} Worth a look.

Blessed Be.

Christmas Eve at Lethendy

We are experiencing our first white Christmas in I don't know how long. This is a little snow-capped bush in a corner of the walled Garden. It's a very beautiful  and we are so lucky to be indoors warm, dry and cosy when it's -16 outside tonight. We have good food and the company of our loved ones in the warm glow of a Christmas Tree; blessed indeed. 

Many, many, others tonight will not be so fortunate. This on a planet when there is more than enough to go round with a minority of powerful individuals and groups who seem to believe that success can only, indeed must only, come at the expense of others. As the churches and cathedrals are filled with drouthy revellers ready to belt out "Hark The Herald Angels Sing!" on beery breath with glassy eyes during their only visit to a holy place in a whole year-yet again. WE need to extrapolate that feeling to the rest of the year by living the message of Christ EVERY day, treating that day as if it were our last-If we all chose to be that loving then all the world could indeed become the Christ-Mass celebration every day and we could all know loving, lasting peace at last. Just think....if this WAS my last day on earth, would I behave any differently to others?  

Are you out of or in the woods?

Trees are the telegraph poles to God. Just by being near trees you can access their amazing energies. The healing energy of a tree is a 'constant' unlike ours which changes 'constantly'. That is to say a tree is totally reliable-just go up to a tree, stand with your back leaning against it, palms of your hand against the tree and ask it to drain away your excess emotions-it will! You may experience a slight rocking motion as Mother Nature nurses you back into balance! Try it, it works and it's free!!

I know that I've said this before but for new followers this may be new and 're-vision'

is also good for older followers who, like me , forget.

A WOODLAND WINDOW OF SUNLIGHT

This is of course the season of Christ-Mass celebrations, family get -togethers and the exchanging of gifts. However, for many people, this is not an easy time and can represent mounting debt whilst trying to please children bombarded with media matierialism. Little of this has anything to do with the true spirit of Christ's teachings.

The giving and receiving of gifts is wonderful and is in fact in keeping with many spiritual teachings. It is the commercial control and media manipulation which has robbed this most sacred celebrations of any  sanctity and wonder. The true measure of an evolved  society is how it teats the least among it's members. I am not talking of poverty, division and exclusion in third world countries here-I am talking on your doorstep to you; for as long as we have one homeless person among us, one socially trapped, or excluded from opportunity, on any grounds, then we are ALL forgetting the meaning of the Christ-Mass for we are ALL ONE. Love gives every day of the year.  

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