thankfulness
what a lark
I’ve been thinking about gratitude today. It’s my birthday and though I am usually non-plussed about birthdays this time I am strangely excited. I’m 55 you see and that just seems like such a great number! It seems so perfectly in balance, like my personal ying/yang has finally found itself in perfect harmony. Together they reduce to a 1 which holds the promise of a new beginning filled with endless opportunities, grand dreams and hopes. My older sister told me that 55 in the I Ching means ‘the sun at its zenith” (and pushing aside the fleeting thought ‘after this it is all downhill’) I realise that is exactly how I feel. This day heralds a wonderful year ahead. I can relax and trust in life’s Goodness.
After spending time with family I went for a solitary walk on a rocky headland. The local council have recently constructed a curving paved path so mothers with prams and people confined to wheelchairs can enjoy the experience too. And what a panorama it is … long, white, near empty beaches stretch in either direction, fringed with pandanas, banksia and she-oaks. Grassy headlands disappear into the distance north and south, each with a tumble of rocks covered in white spray where landmass meets the Pacific Ocean. I was just emerging from the timber boardwalk through the tree line when this strange excitement on turning 55 exploded again. In the next instance, framed by the bushes up ahead, a square-tailed kite swept past not ten feet from the ground and my heart leapt. In a few strides I was out onto the wind-swept headland again, the waves pounding on my right at the bottom of a sheer drop. And there, riding on the updraft not three feet from me was the Kite, wings spread, hovering at eye level (and I didn’t have my camera!!!).
What a moment! What a lark! (thanks Mrs Dalloway!). Multi-patterned in reddish browns, whites and tans it was incredible. It flew straight over my head displaying the glory of its underbelly and hovered over the grass to my left with its eye on some small prey. So intensely was it focused it completely ignored my shitz-tu and I (who was too busy sniffing the ground to look up). I felt elated as if the universe was confirming what my spirit was feeling, I am entering a new phase, I can rest on the updraft, enjoy the view and trust in the power of One.
So Happy Birthday to me and in the spirit of the Mad Hatters Tea Party, a very, very Happy Unbirthday to you!!
Namaste
margosnotebook 
Liebster Award
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So here is another of those awards that go round and round the blog community, I’m not sure exactly what it is awarded for and it seems to be a self-promotion/get to know each other ‘award’ but thank-you to Petrel141 @ Dear Kitty. Some blog for the nomination.
Here are the rules for the Liebster Award:
Section 1. Add the award logo to your blog
Section 2. Answer the eleven questions posted by your nominee.
Section 3. Pass the award on to 11 other blogs, link to them and let them know. Ask them eleven new questions.
So here are Petrel141’s 11 questions and my answers, followed by my 11 nominees and my 11 questions… I have randomly selected these 11 nominees from blogs I follow so please don’t be put out if you’re not nominated, I love you all thats why I follow your blogs! I also tried to choose blogs I hadn’t nominated before and at the end of the day it’s just a bit of fun so enjoy if you’re in the mood or pass it by 😀
1. If you are a WordPress blogger: did you blog somewhere else before you started yourWordPress blog? Yes, I started blogging as part of a team of media students from Southern Cross University who were the official bloggers for the 2012 Byron Bay Writers’ Festival NSW, Australia.
2. If yes to question #1, what are the main differences between your previous blog site and WordPress? Now I do my own thing.
3. Do you think you are using all WordPress features which might be useful? Pretty much.
4. Do you know how many “likes” your blog got so far? If so, how? This is an important question for me, as some bloggers know, and I don’t have any idea how many “likes” my blog got so far
Not sure if you mean followers or ‘likes’. Both are displayed / accessible on either the blog and /or dashboard features so it’s a yes from me.
5, Do you use the Get Polling Polldaddy feature? No
6. If so, is it working well on your site? I tried Polldaddy, but somehow it did not work well on my site
7. What is your favourite animal species? Ethical vegans.
8. What is your favourite plant species? No favourites I love them all … collectively I’d have to say untouched wilderness.
9. Did you ever make a blog post which you expected would get few visitors, but which on the contrary got many views? I’m always amazed and grateful that anyone visits!
10. Did you ever make a blog post which you expected would get many visitors, but which on the contrary got few views? As above
11. What is your favourite song? The sounds of silence / nature
My eleven nominees are:
For The Love Of Clouds And Nature: EyesOfOdysseus: Alan Leatherbarrow Photography
Mike Powell: Daffodil Hill Photography: Greenhorn Photos: siderius blog: Mangrove Explorer:
Neil Murray: Stories from home : Shifting the Balance
My eleven questions for my eleven nominees:
1) Whereabouts do you live?
2) What three words describe your typical Saturday?
3) When was the last time you stopped and watched a sunset?
4) What is your most favourite place in all the world?
5) Why?
6) Have you ever been a ‘rebel’ and joined a public protest?
7) If yes, what did you protest about?
8) Have you ever written into a newspaper in ‘letters to the editor’?
9) If yes, what was it about?
10) When was the last time you stopped and looked at an insect?
11) What was the most beautiful thing you noticed?
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