Isn’t laughter fantastic? A sense of humour is one of the greatest things we have and is something to be used regularly 🙂
Enthusiasm and joy
In late 2002 I travelled around eastern Turkey and it was great to see the enthusiasm and joy exhibited by the local children.
This photo is from the far eastern town of Igdir where the bus stopped for a break.
Cool mornings – winter is approaching
The last few mornings have been quite cool. Yesterday the temperature went down to about 4 degrees centigrade. Winter is around the corner.
The freshness of these mornings reminds me that it’s great to be alive. Where I live, winter is the season of life. Winter rain turns the parks, fields and gardens greener, makes the rivers and creeks flow and brings out the frogs and water birds.
Full moon
The full moon last night and this morning was really beautiful. The moon is currently floating just above the western horizon partially obscured by red-grey cloud coloured by the morning sun rising from the east.
I’m excited about an opportunity
As the saying goes every cloud has a silver lining. I’m about to receive a cloud that not only has a silver lining but is gold embossed as well!
Show your good side
Yesterday, I caught a bus and then a train to and from a wonderful community event. On the train there was a poster displaying a poem promoting good behaviour while using public transport. A line of the poem I really liked was “show your good side”.
Show your good side: be positive; respect and be considerate of other people.
I believe showing our good side should be our intention everywhere, including on public transport 🙂
Happiness is a choice
Happiness is a choice. No matter what situation we are in or circumstances we face, we can choose to be happy. Happiness is a state of mind that is in our control.
If I don’t appear to be happy, please remind me that happiness is a choice 🙂
By changing nothing, nothing changes
A friend has this mantra as their Skype by-line and it is a great call to action. To enable things to change for the better, we need to change ourselves.
Taking a ride in a banana bus
I’m currently sitting in a articulated bus (a bus with a bend in the middle) and this reminded me of one of my childhood’s simple pleasures: taking a ride on a ‘banana bus’ 🙂
Turning clouds into silver lining – changing potential negatives into positives
Last night I experienced a liberating, fun and challenging class of air yoga. Air yoga is form of yoga using hammocks suspended from the ceiling.
My plan after class was to catch the train back into the city. As I walked to the train station I saw the train arrive and ran to meet it. Unfortunately, it departed just as I arrived to the platform and the next train wasn’t for another thirty minutes.
Instead of cursing and burdening my mind with negative thoughts about the situation, I took it as an opportunity to eat dinner at the nearby cafe strip. I enjoyed my fish and chips and was happy and back at the station ready for the next train 🙂