TO DIE FOR

"I live I love I listen I learn
I see a beauty enriched in life
A beauty, a gift eternal, 
far beyond a death
A lesson in life....... only time will turn"

                                                    Moi

.....ouch.....

Did I tell you I cut my toe pretty badly on Saturday. The beach has been absolutely trashed with the storms and the wind. Now when you walk down the beach path to the actual beach there is about a 12 foot drop to the sand. Hmmm.... No problem for a bush banger. Just jump. I did. Landed safely. Went for a swim. Cooool bananas. Did a little bit of meditation and praying for a friend who has problems and then...... oh oh. Aaarrggmm, 'scuse me MSOT but how do I get back up? Aaah haar. Bit of creative emergency rescue type thingie was needed.. The bush path fence had collapsed on to the beach. A piece of nice pine wood with wire attached . Ohk. Bit of pushing and shoving and whingeing and whineing and voila! Ready made ladder. Weeell sorta. The climb up begins. Whoooooooaaaa.... Aaarrgghh......

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...... beauty enriched.....

Hmmmm....
Well that didn't work. Oh oh. I had fallen off backwards and as I was falling the big toe of the left limb had become attached to the wire and riiiip.....
Lots of blood and ouches later. I hobbled about 500 metres down the beach to where I could get up. Oh well just another day in the life of. I cleaned the wound up to get ready for the talk. It looked pretty nasty. Anyway I finished the talk and finally got back to La Chateau which had undergone another wild weather assault while I was talking. Arrived back to wet blankie and sheets in the dark. Maybe time for me to reconsider my accommodation. D'ya think? If the weather would NOT include rain, flooding, wind cyclones and tornados then everything would be coool.....
But things are beginning to pick up and exposure to my story is growing. Not the time to panic just yet. Anyway the foot is swelling and the toe is black so I'm dropping in to see the doctor this 'avo. If they happen to amputate no doubt I'll be doing a lot of walkin' round and round in circles!

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......the reason why?????

I heard a couple of bad stories about people on the weekend. People I know. People that matter to me. The 'bad stories' was about lives. Real people. Real lives. Not wet blankies and sheets. You know dot, toes get better (I hope!) and bad weather eventually stops (I hope!). Money and food will always come back into your life if you pray hard enough. Things like wet blankies and sheets, and 'stuff' like that are inconveniences. If they happen enough you get used to them and you train your mind to adapt. It works. But when you hear about good people suffering and having difficulty with their lives, MY MIND stuggles to adapt. See life has an END point and it hurts me to hear that END points are getting closer. I get sad. But I manage because I am learning through my own experiences.  I am learning to value MY LIFE but more particularly other people's lives. But one of the greatest lessons that I have learned in the last few years is to use DEATH as a motivating factor in MY LIFE. You have heard me many times talk about "Memento Mori". Yep. I'm LEARNING.
I'm learning that LIFE is.....

                                                     .....TO DIE FOR.....

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