.....the butterfly effect!

...it has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. This idea that as a result of something somewhat small and meaningless, chaos ensues, is not new. The ripple effect of someone's senseless action has been amazing to watch. The lives that have been changed, hurt, thrown off course and dramatically affected forever are numerous. I wonder if she would ever have done what she did if she had known the consequences......but she did! I am sad, so sad for my family especially and if I can be so selfish as to say this...I am sad for me, because my life has changed along with theirs too.
I hope soon to see the 'yes in this mess' but I so wish that that butterfly had never flapped its wings!

Kathi

.....love?

......yes, that's so true. Scientific research has proved what we always suspected about the amazing, misunderstood, euphoric effects of love.

Here is an extract from Paulo Coelho's blog:

"In the year 2000, researchers Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki, of University College in London, located the areas of the brain activated by romantic love by using a series of students who claimed to be madly in love. In the first place, they concluded that the zones affected by the sentiment are far smaller than they had imagined, and are the same as those activated by stimuli of euphoria, such as in using cocaine, for example. Which led the authors to conclude that love is similar to the manifestation of physical dependence provoked by drugs.
Also using the same system of scanning the brain, scientist Helen Fisher, of Rutgers University, concludes that three characteristics of love (sex, romanticism and mutual dependence) stimulate different areas of the cortex, and further conclude that we can be in love with one person, want to make love to another, and live with a third."

So I am in love with love...

Kathi

.....you should be here!

Kathi

.....music is what feelings sound like!

...aaah yes indeed, music IS what feelings sound like!

I was given the honour.....yes it was an honour, to choose three songs for a memorial service for a loved one next week. I had to listen through someone else's ears to find just the right three songs that would express exactly how my friend was feeling about the tragic loss of his wife.

The task was accepted by me because I knew that he did not have the time, energy or emotional strength to face this challenge....and I was so glad that I could help in this small way.

I spent hours and hours on the internet searching, listening, relistening and listening again to the tunes and words to make sure that none of them were offensive or derogatory in any way and that the songs spoke the message he wished to share.

After compiling a list of 10 songs, I then had to buy, download and search music stores for clear originals.....what a mission!

Last night I presented the songs to him to listen to and choose. So he disappeared into his private space....just him and the music.

A good while later he emerged to inform me that he no longer wanted three songs......I held my breath thinking that I had failed in my mission. No, he was going to change the service to accomodate them all!

"You see," he said, "every one of those songs you chose, exactly expressed my feelings!"

"Where words fail, music speaks" ~ Rest in peace!

Kathi

....living for the weekend

....plenty more weekends to come folks, enjoy!!!

Kathi

.....hug me!!

...we all deserve, need, want and thrive on physical attention and there's nothing better than a hug!

Do me a favour...go and give someone a great, big, warm and unconditional hug today.....even if they are prickly about it!

Kathi

.....you hoo!

Kathi

....white rabbits!!

....."White rabbits!"

One of the traditions that my mother had when I was a child was to come into our bedrooms early in the morning on the first day of a new month and shout, "WHITE RABBITS!", to which we immediately had to shout back, "WHITE RABBITS!". By it being the first words that we said on the first day of the month, it was supposed to bring us good luck! Did any of you do the same thing, or do you still?

My aunt sometimes texts me on the first day of the month with "WHITE RABBITS!" but it doesn't always get to me on time.

When I think about it now, maybe that was why I had such a happy, lucky childhood!

Try it next month and tell me if it works!

Kathi

....comes the dawn

....I found this today on an old blog post of mine and I thought it was definitely worth sharing with you all again...

Comes the dawn

After a while you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't always mean security
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises
And you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child
And you learn to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns
if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
that you really are strong
and you really do have worth
And you learn and you learn
with every goodbye you learn...

1971 by Veronica A. Shoffstall

Kathi

....I am only one!

....go out today and make a difference, it doesn't matter how small!

Make a call to a friend, visit someone who is lonely, send a loving text, bake a cake for your staff, buy flowers for your daughter, hug your son.....tell someone that you LOVE them.

We can't all do something that will change the world but we can do something to make someone feel loved and happy today.....that alone can change the world, it really can!!

Kathi