tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43120439044891084892023-06-20T22:03:01.435-07:00Deep Thoughts and Idle ChatterTaphophilia Catafalquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475395812088013309noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312043904489108489.post-50710099174624108002011-10-05T09:57:00.000-07:002011-10-05T09:57:32.730-07:00Ouch !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When they attack you and you can still find it in your heart to love them, your job is done.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My thoughts always go to this quote from Byron Katie at those times when your family do or say hurtful things towards you and it brings me a sense of inner peace just to know it. </span></div>Taphophilia Catafalquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475395812088013309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312043904489108489.post-3550681821365836592011-05-25T01:01:00.000-07:002011-05-25T01:03:19.590-07:00Problem Solving<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking that created them"</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Albert Einstein</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is this a dangerous age that I am now entering ? </span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I shall attempt to exercise more and eat wholesome healthy foods and avoid living in life's fast lane ........</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Later I shall have to 'Seek and Destroy' those solids that have liquified and any thing that wears a green furcoat.</span>Taphophilia Catafalquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475395812088013309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312043904489108489.post-33733204559962548432011-03-16T02:10:00.000-07:002011-03-16T02:10:18.356-07:00Comings and Goings<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At the weekend there appeared to be lots of 'Comings and Goings', my Mother flew out to Australia to visit her sister and niece for the month. We went to see our adorable grandson for the first time. Then the sad news that our daughter in~laws Father had peacefully passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Life's ever changing cycle is like the revolving door of a large hotel, with people passing through, here one minute, gone the next. All of us on our own incredible journey somewhere.........</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span>Taphophilia Catafalquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475395812088013309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312043904489108489.post-83622034298663219012011-01-25T12:56:00.000-08:002011-01-25T12:56:52.928-08:00Guaranteed Failure<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To try, is to risk failure</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But to not try at all, is failure guaranteed.........</span>Taphophilia Catafalquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475395812088013309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312043904489108489.post-81063446035391116672011-01-19T03:47:00.000-08:002011-01-25T13:05:38.031-08:00Functional and Featureless<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I appreciate that a minimalistic environment allows energy to flow in a more efficient way - see Feng Shui.</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But I can't help thinking that all those clean lines and empty spaces, are a wee bit too <strong>featureless</strong>, with little expression of personality or creativity. </span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I know the arguement goes in favour of tidyness and functionality, over that of being totally cluttered and impractical, or that of having a sense of overwhelming character.</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But I like my Stuff and I've got got a quirky way of showing it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And yes it is full on and sometimes overwhelming, but it's a good reflection of what's going on inside..........</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I may continue with this thread..........</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">T.D. Jakes said that 'If you do not like the view of things infront of you, then you need to reposition yourself and change the perspective that you have of them'..........</span><br />
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Taphophilia Catafalquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475395812088013309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312043904489108489.post-164976773559897322010-12-10T07:10:00.000-08:002010-12-10T07:10:17.802-08:00Find the Silver Lining<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Remember to always look on the bright side, because.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pessimism can create that which you most fear </span>Taphophilia Catafalquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475395812088013309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312043904489108489.post-82728706356337682922010-12-04T07:37:00.000-08:002010-12-04T07:37:56.800-08:00I Think I May Have a Hernia !<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Isn't it funny that whenever anything goes wrong with your poor old body, your mind just can't help itself as it wanders towards the list of really serious complaints. </span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Maybe just fleetingly of course, after all there is no point in getting out a medical dictionary and really giving yourself something nasty - but just supposing that tension headache could be something more sinister - a brain tumour perhaps........</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So is this just a strained muscle as I turned over in bed ? Or could it be a strangulated hernia ? </span>Taphophilia Catafalquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475395812088013309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312043904489108489.post-56339199067515111122010-12-01T03:35:00.000-08:002010-12-01T03:35:00.992-08:00Sounding Board<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The reason I have written this blog is because I think everyone needs a sounding board, a place to just bounce those thoughts and ideas from. And whilst I have many patient friends who are good listeners and advisors, sometimes it's just the sound of your own words that you really need to hear and reflect upon.</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And a place where you can say the things that you might not be able to tell another..........</span>Taphophilia Catafalquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475395812088013309noreply@blogger.com0