Neglected....

Seems I've neglected this page for the past few months and I think I've neglected myself too....seems the two things are intertwined.

Sorry!

Love

Love is a star that shines so bright,
Love is the moon on a starlit night.
Love is a rainbow on a rainy day,
Love is a tonic that drives the blues away.
Love is the music in the birds that sing,
Love is the flowers that bloom in spring.
Love is a smile on a new born’s face,
Love is a couple in a warm embrace.
Love is the gentle summer breeze,
Love is the emotion you feel when you’re at ease.
Love is so gentle, so kind and so true,
Love is the magic that turns grey skies to blue.
Love is happiness and peace rolled into one,
Love is the laughter that finds time for fun.
Love is forgiving and honest in mind,
Love is a cure for all mankind.

~ W Williamson ~

It's Really True...Laughter is the best medicine....check this out...!

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by Portia Nelson

Autobiography in Five Chapters
1) I walk down the street.....There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.... I fall in..... I am lost — I am helpless..... It isn't my fault..... It takes forever to find a way out.

2) I walk down the same street.....There is a deep hole in the sidewalk..... I pretend I don't see it..... I fall in again..... I can't believe I'm in the same place..... But it isn't my fault..... It still takes a long time to get out.

3) I walk down the same street.....There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.... I see it is there..... I still fall in — it's a habit.... My eyes are open.... I know where I am.... It is MY fault..... I get out immediately.

4) I walk down the same street.....There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.... I walk around it.

5) I walk down a DIFFERENT street.

Endless Summers

I adored those times,

But I know they’ll never come back.

You would walk and I would secretly follow.

No shoes.

You always knew,

And when tired -

You’d carry me back.

Only us two.

Yellow soft sand.

Silent.

Miles and miles of Sweet Memories

Returned to me today, in music.

Only a child.

Always my father.

Ever small.

Forever safe.

Copyright Dawni (Quinonostante) March 1st 2004 (Inspiration “In a Silent Way” Miles Davis)

Laughter! It's the best medicine...!

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SMILE

It confuses people....

A Week Of Learning..!

This week I attended a residential course with 30 others from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, which was examining the role of 'Intentional Peer Support', and how this could become something we could use not only in working relationships, but in all our dealings with everyone, and with a view to ultimately having mental health services facilitated by peer support groups.

The course is designed by Shery Mead from New Hampshire, in the USA, and we were very fortunate that she was available herself to come teach it, along with her associate and partner Chris Hansen.

I didn't realise I must have had an idea of how the course would 'run' until it really didn't seem to be anything I had obviously pictured. In retorospect I must of assumed I'd have the role of note taking, homeworking and evaluating, when in fact I became part of an organic, supportive and warm peer supportive group.

It was a journey I am very privelidged to have been involved in!

Rather than ramble on about all of the good points etc, I thought I would examine what it has meant for me, and how it has personally impacted upon me, and ultimately, the 'lesson' (for want of a better word)I feel I have learned.

I now feel that in order to recognise my own 'Joy' and need to be able to sit with, and acknowledge my 'Discomfort'.

Dawni (April 2007)

http://www.mentalhealthpeers.com/trainings.html

Stateside Robert...!

Dr Robert Holden was a star guest on a rare live broadcast of the Oprah Show which went out 11th April to great acclaim and interest.

Robert led a discussion and offered insights into how to be truly happy. 'It's never too late to be happy' said Robert and a key is to 'give up destination addiction to achieve Happiness Now!'
Robert was able to help the guest volunteers including Reggie, Oprah's make-up artist, to look at how they could create greater happiness in their lives.

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

Walt Whitman. Poet 1819-1892

stolen from Phil Reed....I know he won't mind..

"I am a paranoiac in reverse.

I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

J. D. Salinger

...thank you...

And I see you :o)

I AM HERE TO BE SEEN

Ik moet hier worden gezien.....

Sono qui essere visto

Estoy aquí ser visto

Я должны здесь быть увиденным

Eu estou aqui ser visto

Je suis ici pour être vu

Ich bin hier gesehen zu werden

Spreading My Birthday Joy

Dawni

xxx

It's My Birthday.....

...and I'll laugh if I want to!!

Dawni

Decorate each day with happiness

Be still for just a minute.....

...and let the silence unfold its treasure before you.

www.just-a-minute.org
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"There is a world of difference between searching for happiness

and choosing to be happy."

Robert Holden Happiness is a Way of Travelling

Slow down, relax and take it easy....

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

~ Jean Houston ~

For Robert And Holly

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WELCOME...!!!

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Where do I go when my sparkle is fading.....?

~ Hafiz ~

News Flash!!

Police station toilet stolen, cops have nothing to go on!

Although the world is full

of suffering, it is full also of

the overcoming of it

They say there's seven wonders in this world, are You number Eight..?

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." -- Bernard Meltzer.

I haven't lost my mind........... it's backed up on a disk somewhere!!

It's Never Too Late To Refine Your Talents..!!

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When you're deluded, every
statement is an ulcer; when you're
enlightened, every word is wisdom

This past two weeks I've been struggling with my new job, and I say struggling for many reasons. I'm tired, I'm finding it hard to adjust to commuting every day. I'm even finding the extra hour walking tough. I'm discovering that joining a new team is plain weird. The one thing which keeps me going is the knowledge that the individuals who are using to the MIND project every day have much more complex and difficult issues than I do, but they keep on coming, they just manage and that's very humbling.

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of things that take our breath away.

A Conversation with God

http://www.cwg.org

Wise words.....

LIFE IS SHORT. EAT DESSERT FIRST!

From Happiness Now!

"I have come to learn from you what is truth," said the professor."Would you like some tea?" said the Master, who was smiling from ear to ear."Thank you," said the professor. "I have little time, but I am keen to learn all that I can."The Master began to pour tea."You see," said the professor, "my entire life has been a search for truth."The Master continued to pour."That’s plenty tea, thank you"The Master kept pouring."Master, the cup is overflowing - no more tea will go in."The Master smiled. As he still poured, he said, "My dear professor, like this cup, you are full of your own beliefs and theories. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

Break Down A Barrier Today!

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Dawni

Seize from every moment

its unique novelty and do

not prepare your joys

Dawni

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Happy New Year



Time to address
a new year

… enter

deal with the project at hand
yet resolve not to dwell on past

never stop dreaming
even on the last exhale
and
find it in your heart
to forgive
then you will be forgiven in likeness
try
smile,
even when sad
this provokes the inner smile
to surface

take each day
as it’s dealt
and be thankful for the wealth
mother nature doles

now take a deeeeeeeeep
meditative breath
you’re alive … aren’t you?

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Make Every Friday a Good Friday!

Join the Karma Army and undertake a

RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS

to help make the world a nicer place :o)

* Be unfailingly polite to every single person you meet

* Strike up a conversation with an old man on a bench

* Do a chore at work that someone else usually has to do

* Swap places with the person behind you in the queue

* Today, give blood. Seriously. Do it!

* If you see an old person struggling in a supermarket, help them do their shopping

* Forgive someone

* Buy a scratchcard and hand it to a stranger

* Hide a complimentary note in a book in the library

* Smile at everyone you see

* On a frosty morning, scrape the ice off the windscreen of the car next to yours

* Etc, etc, etc

Extracts from Random Acts of Kindness by Danny Wallace and his Karma Army

http://www.join-me.co.uk http://www.justgiving.com/dannywallace

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted

~Aesop~

peace begins with a smile

~Mother Teresa~

Nature is a painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have eyes to see them....

~ John Ruskin~

Try This Today

I see a gift in every difficulty

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A Question....

Why is it that the winner of the Miss Universe contest always comes from Earth?

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
G. K. Chesterton

"If you smile at me I will understand, because that is something everyone everywhere does in the same language"

~ Crosby, Stills and Nash ~

Happy Friday

Sometimes life may seem hard; it gets kinda rough.

Nothing will go right, and small tasks are too tough.

Listen to me well, I'll tell you what to do.

This works for me. It is sure to work for you.

Go look in a mirror, and see your face there.

Stick out your tongue and wave it 'round in the air.

Then smile a big smile and think something ‘happy’.

'Cause facing life with a smile makes it less crappy :o)

Thanks to Matt!

TO A VERY SPECIAL SLOPE

You’re such a radiant gradient

A smooth one, not a hilly one

Your red-rimmed sign says you’re one in nine

But to me you’re one in a million

Matt Harvey from The Hole in the Sum of My Parts(The Poetry Trust 2005)

"Sometimes you hit a wall – in your work, your relationships, your life.
Remember, every wall has a door. Find the door. Walk right through it."
Miranda Holden

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Q: What happens when a Buddhist becomes totally absorbed with the computer he is working with?

A: He enters Nerdvana.