Tag: gratitude journal

Turn It Around – 26th July 2022

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Struggling flowers reaching up high
Searching for light in the grey sky
Meekly accepting and no question why
Quiet as a mouse skittering away
Always saying something yet nothing to say
Hard to get and refusing to play
A uniform mask and a poker face
Friendless in this friendly place
Self-excluded from any competitive race
One day to shine, to rise up high
Their blinding light will pierce the sky
Leaving everyone else to wonder why

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

Nizar Qabbani

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for the little plants Bruno gave me to see if I can use them to grow a border along our path.

Next Life – 25th July 2022

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Always thinking about the next life
As if that will be the roses you expect
Forget the work, turn down the effort
It’s an internal rejection that you accept

There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, or dragging out some false, shallow degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Oscar Wilde

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have a nice early dinner of special food at Amy’s parents, joined by Takky, Nut and Bruno. It was a pleasant evening with lots of chat.

The Biggest Rug – 22nd July 2022

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Now that news is entertainment
There’s nothing worth knowing
It’s there to serve a purpose
To prevent your knowledge growing

A movie star’s divorce
Is more newsworthy than war
When the injured are at home
And understand what the fighting is for

The rug is getting bigger
Where all the garbage is brushed
Tricked to believe in freedom
Whilst watching it being crushed

9th May 2024 – Submitted to Word of the Day Challenge – Garbage
26th Sep 2024 – Submitted to Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Supersize

We need each other to become ourselves.

Abraham Kaplan

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for our crazy passionfruit plants that are providing me with so much fruit to enjoy. Then there’s the crazy pumpkin that also may actually give us food that doesn’t get eaten by insects this year.

Leg – 21st July 2022

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What makes this leg the one to be admired?
The smoother the skin the more similarly inspired
From a foot to a thigh
I’m always wondering why
For perfection, there are always two required

When struggling for time and inspiration, a limerick rescues.

What’s uncomfortable early becomes comfortable later. What’s comfortable early becomes uncomfortable later.

unknown, seen on a Quora post about Principle of Life

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to meet the nice immigration officer yesterday. He was very helpful and made the task as smooth as possible.

Selfie – 20th July 2022

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Another selfie makes us unhealthy
Pic after pic makes us sick
Mental disaster, depressing faster
A selfie smile, gone out of style

The revolutionary thinker must go beyond thought. He knows that almost all his best ideas come to him when thinking has stopped.

Alan Watts

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be able to eat Amy’s home-cooked food again. Better than any shop.

Hibernation – 19th July 2022

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Waking up two hundred years from now
This must really be a decent age
The past will just seem as a dream
Painting old words to the page

Turn back now those two hundred years
This is a decent age here right now
Without comparison we are blind
To our own experiences somehow

What I am is constantly thrust into my face while I’m trying to be better than I am.

Allie Brosh

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have had a few days away in Bangkok and to be back at home again. I like to travel but I love my home more.

A Step Closer To God – 15th July 2022

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Another winning goal, another scoring shot
A sharing of the soul, a stirring of the pot
Climbing the ranks, lightning to the rod
Living life with thanks, stepping up to God

The title was taken from a commentator’s proclamation during last weekend’s Sydney vs. Fremantle AFL game as Buddy Franklin scored an important goal after the halftime siren.

Why on earth do you need thanks or recognition for having done the right thing? It’s your job.

Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that I was able to safely get on and off the roof to put down some waterproof tape. Let’s see if it works.

Together Again Today – 14th July 2022

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Both on our way
By the end of the day
– A feeling we’ll no longer miss
It’s been a while
Since sharing our smile
– And feeling so gentle a kiss
When we are not there
We know we still care
– Each other we’re thinking of
Wrapped in each other
Like arms of a mother
– The comforts of deepest love

The older you get, the smarter your parents get.

David Foster Wallace, paraphrasing

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for the choices we have. On the 11th I wrote that Amy’s mum and dad would come and look after our cats but now Aing is back in Chiang Rai and her and Now will be able to do it for us.

The Week That Was – 23rd September 1979

In The Woods – 12th July 2022

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The trees are listening, they hear your tears
Wept on your journies through a thousand fears
The fight never-ending, til its bitterness arrives
Waiting in the woods, a world no one survives

2nd Apr 2024 – Submitted to Word of the Day Challenge

The cosmic fate of humanity is somewhat mysterious, but we should act ‘as if’ what we do matters. This belief will then become a self-fulfilling prophecy, leading to a good life.

Jules Evans paraphrasing Roosevelt

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have little Kim come and sleep on me and next to me last night along with Cap sleeping next to my pillow. I’m not sure what brought on Kim’s sudden affection. She seems very happy.

Castrated – 11th July 2022

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No time for making babies
Taking care of all their needs
Better to have a dog or cat
And stop it spreading its seeds
Need a friend, not a kid
Even if they are naughty
You can get one when you want
Even if you are forty
But don’t let those suckers breed
There’s enough already
The world doesn’t need more
Just enough to remain steady

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Goethe

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to Amy’s mum and dad (again!). They will come and feed our cats whilst we are in Bangkok for three days.