Category: gratitude

You can’t have it all. Simple as!

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If you had to describe your ideal life, what would it look like?

An ideal life? Remaining happy in my own skin. Supremely healthy and financially secure. And I’ll take it from there, thank you, WP.

I am not a victim of domestic abuse, or am I being trafficked. I’m not held prisoner in any shape or form. I’ve access to clean drinking water/sanitation. Not in debt or in jail. My life is my own, and I have complete freedom. I don’t have the exhausting/distressing time of caring for someone 24/7. I have wheels and a roof over my head. I am not an addict, out of control, and reliant on a fix of anything. I haven’t had to flee my home and community due to a war, civil or otherwise. I don’t live in fear in a refugee camp. I have access to free health care and attention. And, of course, this list could go on.

My ideal life would certainly include the best of everything for those I care about. That is a given.

I am missing my Mr Wonderful. Some guy completely gorgeous who loves me for who I am. But I’ve got Patch, and he loves me until he has a moment and wants to gut me like a fish. But you can’t have everything, eh?

Edit. What I would really love is to have my two brothers in my life. Why did I leave that to an edit? Well, you can shield yourself from some things, push them away….but they’ll always come back to haunt you

It’s the little things

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What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

Just feeling fit and healthy feels good and  something to be happy and grateful for. And that goes for Patch too!

The freedom to do as I please is an absolute thrill and delight, every day.

Simple pleasures of a lovely breakfast and coffee.

A walk with said dog, fresh air, exercise, light, and sometimes even sunshine out in the natural world.

I love putting food out for the birds and watching them come day to feed and bathe.

My world is small now. My life is peaceful and quiet. It’s just the way I like it.

Don’t wish to unnerve you, but

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What’s something most people don’t understand?

Okay WP, I have given this DP some thought and have decided to change the word Understand  for Remember.

I think maybe peeps really don’t often remember that they have no idea what may be coming around the corner. How their lives can totally change in a split second. Perhaps it’s a positive thing that they forget sometimes, else they may exist in a constant state of dread or hope. Neither a healthy option.

But around that corner could be many things. Are you ready?

What I could do less of, is

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What do you wish you could do more every day?

Who needs a device to doom scroll? Not me, I can do it all in my head.

As Patch ages, he needs to go out more. So there are times I find myself awake, maybe 20 minutes or so, before sun up lying in bed in the dark, too alert to go back to sleep.

And so it begins..I think about animals caught up in war zones, I think about how our amazing planet is getting hammered inside out. The insane few fighting between themselves, but involving millions. I see the oceans, the waterways, and airways constantly polluted.

Our country is currently at the in-between stage of a cash and cashless society. A beggar asks if you have any spare change, and you realise you’ve not held any coins, or notes for that matter, for sometime, let alone it being spare.  The situation must be causing numerous, widespread issues.

I see the kids with their faces, their heads, completely inside their phones. I don’t judge them, it’s what they do, how they live. But I do fear they are not connecting with anything else.

There are more online newspaper articles now by journalists as they watch their craft being replaced by A1.

The students with massive debts are hardly able to pay off the Interest on their loans. How are they supposed to get on the property ladder starting their young lives like this?

There are endless thoughts like these, keeping me company, first thing. And then a robin awakes and let’s me know of his existence with a beautiful song.

As it becomes light, he is joined by the chorus. And I thank the gods for that. Reminding me there is a beautiful world out there and not to forget that.

Words making a difference

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What was the best compliment you’ve received?

Since joining the WP community, I’ve received some lovely comments. Compliments that have warmed my heart and encouraged me to keep doing what I’m doing. I can’t thank you guys enough for your time and kind words.

Yellow roses say thank you

In the moment

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What activities do you lose yourself in?

WP you asking bloggers about which activities they lose themselves in. Mmm, now then, I wonder what one of them may be? 

Is being out in nature an activity per se? Walking is obvs, but I am talking about immersing myself in nature. Being mindful of every single moment, movement, sound. The smell of the woods, hearing the stream race along. The sun shining through the trees or rain  dropping from the sodden leaves. The crunch underfoot or the slosh of puddles of mud. The birds.

I’m wondering. Maybe I lose myself in everything I do now that I have the time and space to do so?

Messaging with friends, making coffee, listening to the radio, looking out of the window-watching the squirrels, reading the posts of my fellow/favourite bloggers, driving everything, and anything i can think of.  even chilling. Yep, they all have my undivided attention, thesdays.

And round the corner..

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What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?

Oh WP! You are soo funny. Another trick DP. Tomorrow never comes does it? So what now?

OK, I’ll play along.

To stay breathing, that’s the priority, surely?

For Patches n me to not be in be involved in any dangerous incidents or accidents. Or become unwell.

I feel like writing lots today WP, but there  are things I need to do first off.

Look, put it this way. If the worst thing that happens to me tomorrow…or any day is that I get soaking wet walking with the hound, then I’ve got off lightly.

Life can change in a second.

Best not to forget that.

Edit. There is something I will be doing today, and that is removing any gremlins from my subscribers list. I am so very grateful, humbled by your interest in anything I may have to write about….however when multiple ‘ subscribers’ arrive at once, then I know something is off. Also…There is now a propaganda person (?) who I will not tolerate turning up as soon as they can after I have deleted them. Thanks again to you all, once again, for sharing my trip on WP and especially our DP fun and games….but to the rest? Nah, not having it!

A genuine big thanks to my subscribers

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7 months ago today I began blogging again on a daily basis. I’ve been with WP for many a moon..but this time I’m in proper.

I sincerely want to thank you..the guys who’ve engaged with me. It means the world.

At this time in my life, I want to open those floodgates that have been tightly closed for a very long time.

The Daily Prompts are allowing me to slowly release years of thoughts, ideas and memories from behind doors and dusty windows in my head …

I’m loving meeting folk from all walks of life with stories to tell.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my posts each day. . Those of you leaving comments are deeply appreciated… With love joey x

50th Subscriber. Thank you!

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I re-engaged with WordPress on February 1st this year. Steadily I  have posted  a little each day.

Today, 50 of you gorgeous peeps have

subscribed. Special thanks as always to June, from Fancying France, for being the first.

In truth it could have been lots more, but I got the feeling 20+ accounts added in one swoop and often were probably Bots and not a whole swathe of peeps who thought what I had to say was the best! So I got rid. WordPress has since taken away my capacity to bin subscribers, I think.

So that’s all I want to say, really. I love the folk I have subscribed to.What an interesting crew you are. Eric Foltin, Serial Killer Chic? Omg, it’s going to take a while for that chuckle to disappitate.

Occasionally, with your permission, I’d like to write about you guys. How I perceive the lives you live and what you’ve got to say. I will ask permission beforehand. But what an amazing mix you are.  Absolutely Fabulous!

In the meantime, please add a few words in the comment box if something stirs your soul.

Thanks. Laters x

Yes, I am aware there are plenty of you guys out there with hundreds if not thousands of subscribers, and you may have been posting since time began, but in the words of LJ ‘ I am me and you are you’.  Best wishes