Read this link... Check this site... Recommended Reading if you're into Life!

Hi Everyone,

I've never actually posted before just to recommend another blog/website or post... BUT, I just had too...

I'd recommend to ANYBODY to read Why it's Okay not to be nice...for a very comforting and sensible piece on life and dealing with humans! :)

I actually got there via blog Yoga for Cynics which I quite like...


Peace :)

Not A Poem

What have I done today?
Worried about the fact that I am unhappy,
Rather than just be... Unhappy,
Worried about the Future,
Rather than enjoy today or...
Wondered if I will ever get 'THERE',
Rather than just live from moment-to-moment.

A friend said to me last weekend that she had spent the last year, or so, not doing much, living on redundancy money and generally bumming around, worrying about getting her business more advertised and marketed, and then said, "You know I could have just taken the money I have spent and gone travelling¹, not tortured myself about my predicament and still been in a similar place²"

Obviously, everything is easy in hindsight, but what is it that stops us from being all that we can be?

I could apply the same question to my day, today, I could have just 'lived in the moment'... but then, surely that was what I was doing ay? Just that I worried about the future in that moment, about the past and about the fact that I was unhappy in those moments... Hmmm... Doesn't sound like living in the moment to me though...

BUT, as I am writing this, I FEEL ALIVE and I would defy anybody to say that I AM NOT living in the moment... So I will add this post, as is (maybe to be edited later - but that will still be living in the moment surely, even though thinking about that moment didn't feel like it! ;) ) and watch a film... have another tea!

(((Night all)))

¹details to be checked with said friend, and then edited if required
²really gotta check that bit, I feel like I've just ad-libbed an entire sentence

Be Kind

I have been my own worst enemy,
A torturer, relentless and cold,
Feelings of self-loathing and hatred,
Have rattled around in my soul.

Why do I still make bad decisions?
A question I was going to ask...
But then I realise the futility,
Ahh... Just leave it all there in the past.

For Today is where it is at,
Not Tomorrow or Yesterday gone,
If you sit and realise so quietly,
You'll see that you've already won.

The Health of Our Planet

Over the last few months I have been picking up on bits on and in the news regarding such topics as; The unreliability of global warming statistics and therefore the unreliability of future predictions as to how Our Planet will be effected by Global Warming; The effect of carbon dioxide on ocean life; Over-fishing in The Atlantic Ocean, Items such as this, combined with a general increase in my interest on these matters or even an absorption of them into my conciousness, coupled with my increased awareness of scepticism that exists towards Global Warming, or even just 'Global Health', has prompted me to broach the subject on 'The Health of Our Planet'.

My initial reaction on the current state of affairs is one of mild horror, specifically regarding 'Global Warming Theory' to coin a phrase if it or one similar doesn't exist already, that 'They', the detractors, stand so resolutely and stubbornly in the way of a process of change that may 'save' our planet. I wish to look into exactly what the detractors are saying? And so...

• Is what 'they' (the detractors) are saying based on any scientific evidence or indeed, based on the lack of convincing scientific evidence for the case of Global Warming? 
• And if it is the latter, is it merely opportunistic haranguing, by parties that have a vested interest, of bodies that were up to now deemed as unbiased-purveyors-of-the-truth?
• Do the parties against the case of Global Warming have a legitimate argument?

Seems a good a place as any to open a discussion on 'The Health of Our Planet'... Once again, all comments welcome :)

Cuba

 

I saw a piece on the BBC News today regarding Cuba. I have for a while now been captivated by the Idea of Cuba, from the fact that Ernest Hemmingway loved the country, to seeing (not first hand I may say, but one day maybe) the Organic farming methods used within Cuban communities to enable them to grow their own food, and of course to the relationship he/she has with The United States. It is this Cuba/US relationship that my initial interest, at least for the purpose of this post, is based upon.

In the said BBC report, it mentioned the 'dysfunctional relationship' that exists between the two countries. I wish to look deeper into this relationship. 

• I wonder why the US are still trying to impose so many sanctions on Cuba?
• What are these sanctions? 
• Is it the Cuban Communist regime that is in place, which the Cubans do not, it seems, deem to be an area for negotiation (and why should it be?), the fundamental problem that the United States has with Cuba?
• And is there something that is inherent to the Cuban regime that upsets the Americans from engaging with Cuba? Ie. That prevents the Americans, and forgive my terminology, from 'Globalizing' Cuba? I don't know... But I would like to find out!

All food for thought... I would welcome any comments :)

Work, Web Design (and Life) Continued...

Well, I've started my Yoga Teacher Training, just last weekend... I am excited! :)

Added to this, I was also shown on the same weekend a Web Design Package by a friend, and I was inspired!

As you may know from my previous post, I have been unhappy with my lot in the world-of-work for some time, so this is good news for me! :) I have an aptitude for IT, had been recently toying with HTML on the internet, have access to courses in Self Employment, Web Design and Marketing (from a contact that I was given last year), my adviser at my local Job Centre (been unemployed for a few weeks now) seems to be a good guy... And all this has happened rather quickly, for sure, it's been brewing for longer, but it seems The Universe is conspiring to help me! I LOOOOOVVVVEE IT!

It's all cool!

Why do I Love Yoga?

For me, Yoga is Simplicity...

A natural process that for me, can put you in tune with your own happiness... or even beatitude!

I am coming to the conclusion that patience is required, I get angry, frustrated, disheartened with Yoga...

But, I wonder at IT, Life can be so fruitful if you let it... Sometimes I am amazed!!


Good Night x