Living

Live adventurously.

When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of the community and humanity?

Let your life speak and you have found your purpose.

Hafiz - Persian Poet of 14th century

Don't surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut deep.

Let it ferment and season you.
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.

Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice
So tender,

My need of God
Absolutely
Clear.

Hafiz

Childhood

"Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddle is first viewed as an obstacle instead of an opportunity."

Kathy Williams

In life there is not back

In life there is no going back only foreward.
Looking back is only to help you look forward.
Thinking about going back is going forward with your eyes shut.
So oneward it is.

Song for today: Nothing Compares 2 U

It's been seven hours and fifteen days Since you took your love away I go out every night and sleep all day Since you took your love away Since you been gone I can do whatever I want I can see whomever I choose I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant But nothing I said nothing can take away these blues `Cause nothing compares Nothing compares to you It's been so lonely without you here Like a bird without a song Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling Tell me baby where did I go wrong I could put my arms around every boy I see But they'd only remind me of you I went to the doctor n'guess what he told me Guess what he told me He said girl u better try to have fun No matter what you'll do But he's a fool `Cause nothing compares Nothing compares to you all the flowers that you planted, mama In the back yard All died when you went away I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard But I'm willing to give it another try Nothing compares Nothing compares to you Nothing compares Nothing compares to you Nothing compares Nothing compares to you

The Managers Role

If the goal is create the best garden you can....

The plants need to placed it the best location to flourish and grow and fulfil their part. They need to be able to do this without impact the others.

If a plant is not growing then you need to question why, is it location, soil, fertilizer, water, to much pruning, to little pruning.

The gardener put the plants to best use. they know that the plants have there place and nature and will aways tend to be who they are, some are more flexible that others........

Memories

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

Henry James - important things in life

“Three things in human life are important:

the first is to be kind;

the second is to be kind;

and the third is to be kind.”

Henry James

We are history now

We are all on a narrow edge in time, narrow and short but instant and continuous.

We are histroy now.



(thanks Francis for the thought)

We all have strings.

What are yours?

The things that resonant with you.

That make you happy and sad, quiet or angry?
Do you know how to play your strings?
To make music with them?
How often do you practice with them?

......

(PS Thanks Jean for this thought)

Organisations are olive Trees

The goal is the fruit, the reward, the reason, the concentrated tasty bits that sustain and enrich.

How do you get the best fruit?

Treat the olive tree well, the way that it wants and needs to be treated and it will be generate wood and leaves and grow big and tall, but little fruit will come as it as turned its attentions to the leaves.

So, in the early days water it well and let it grow, it needs nutrition and to be nurtured in good amounts, but very little fruit will come, but the roots will grow and leaves with shine.

Fruit requires a little less water and nutrition and a little more dry spells to get the creative juices flowing and the fruit will overwelm.

(Of course you need basically the right climate and soil -Govenment, law, order, infrastructure and Regulation perhaps)

This thought needs to grow some more.................


The gardener

A educated mind

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle