Yesterday bore us
It cannot ever be changed
Tomorrow beckons
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n.b. How we accept what has happened in our histories and what we plan and do next shapes our futures. What future do you want to work towards?
Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung: Dealing with the past.
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CLP 20/02/2020
Thanks a fucking bunch!
Ha! There’s gratitude for you
Thankfulness ‘s’a gift
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n.b. An interpretation of a recent psychological study suggests that brain imaging shows that those who are generous and giving, who maintain a grateful mindset, are more optimistic than those who do not and that this attitude is highlighted by particular neural activity. It is a mindset that can be developed and sustained; it is not necessary to wallow in misery.
Keeping a gratitude journal is offered as one way to develop this mindset. Other methods include, going regularly to mass, turning to prayers five times daily, or being ever-thankful for what you’ve got; family, friends, health, breath in your lungs, sunrise, sunset, birds’ song, Winter frosts, Spring flowers, Portsmouth FC, whatever.
Let Eric & Ernie sing this post out, (but I don’t endorse their reference to “drinking”).
CLP 18/02/2020
Recognising the flaws
In her fellow men
She embarked on a modelling course
To take the putty she had in her hands
And shape it as she saw fit
During her apprenticeship
Plenty of work came to nothing
But she was admired
For her willingness
To try anew
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CLP 04/01/2020
Time for reflection
Settle, become established
Time to catch a breath
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CLP 31/12/2019
I don’t want to talk
About yesterdays because
I want tomorrows
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n.b. Having good memories is nice, but making more of them is nicer. Look sharp! Eyes to the fore.
CLP 02/10/2019
Somebody said “It’s going to be sunny!”
We went to bed excited at the prospect
Each swimming in expectations whisked up with childhood memories
By morning, (time off already booked at the last minute) we drew back the curtains to steel grey sheets of cloud
To a steady pitter patter on a tin roof
To the cast iron bite of a northerly wind
“Highest temperatures today could touch eight degrees centigrade” said the radio station news anchor
We made our sandwiches, packed the car and set off to the seaside
To join the gulls and cormorants squinting through drizzle
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n.b. British Public Holiday weekend
n.n.b. It turned out to be a beautiful day 
CLP 04/05/2019
