Messages from the Universe

I subscribe to this daily newsletter - TUT Messages from the Universe.

This was todays awesome message:

What I most want you to dream of, Katharine, are possibilities that thrill you.

What I most want you to feel, is happy.

And what I most want you to know, is that you're loved.

Always,

The Universe

Spreading the love...

So its Nelson Mandela's 93rd birthday tomorrow and we have been tasked, as a nation, to do 67 minutes of goodness for someone else. So I wracked my brain on what to do and I came up with a list of 33 things anyone can do (coz I am in my 33rd year):

1. Clean out some cupboards to give to charity
2. Bake some cupcakes for an old aged home
3. Clean a pavement in my area
4. Walk an invalid person around a hospital ward
5. Make packs of goodies for sick children
6. Knit a scarf for a cold person
7. Paint a picture for a creche
8. Write a childrens story and illustrate it for a kindergarten
9. Make sandwhiches for the homeless people I see on the street
10. Help a child with their homework, and save a parent on extra lessons
11. Buy underwear/toiletries for women who have escaped abusive men
12. Spend time with children at a charity home
13. Bring a meal for a friend at work
14. Buy school shoes for a family for their kids for winter
15. Clean a park area
16. Meet you neighbours and get a neighbourhood network going
17. Buy some groceries for your maid
18. Plant a window box and leave it on someones pavement for them to enjoy
19. Call a friend you have lost touch with
20. Pop past someones house uninvited and unscheduled
21. Collect your coins for a month and hand them over to charity
22. Buy the petrol attendant a coke and a pie when he fills up your car for you
23. Walk to the shops instead of driving
24. Use your bath water to water the plants and save water
25. Buy a pair of socks for a homeless child
26. Have a friend over and just chat - no expense, no occassion, just time
27. Buy candles and have a romantic evening with no electricity
28. Let someone in in the traffic and dont expect a thank you
29. Volunteer to give a talk on something you are well versed in
30. Give a colleague your time to help them with a project
31. Write a gratitude journal entry of the ten things you are most grateful for in your life right now
32. Drop off some flowers at your best friend on an idle Tuesday
33. Make something for someone else to sell for profit

Im planning to do these 33 things over the next year - some are quick to do, some will take awhile. Just think its important to make a stance - get out there and make this place a better one to live in

Love to all you love
K.

Sunday evening goodness

I am fed, I am watered, I have cleaned the house and I am finally breathing out. There is something magickal about Sunday evenings, even when they are followed by a leave day, they are still absolutely stunning!

I have had a good day - spent enough time with people, enough time alone, watched some Wimbledon, ate good food and drank great wine (still drinking great wine).

All is right in the world on a Sunday evening. And that is good.

Thank you.

Getting over yourself

Whew - I cant lie, I have been in one of the most hectic downers over the past 3 weeks that I have EVER experienced. Nothing could get me out of it. I just seemed to wallow in this space of sadness - of just existing rather than being. I didnt want to do anything - couldnt do anything - just wanted to sleep and be home and warm and quiet and thats not me at all.

But I am in Cape Town now, and it seems to have lifted my spirits slightly. I still have lots of questions - work, life, love, hope, happiness, honesty, intimacy, professionalism, failure, fear... but somehow they seem a little more in perspective when I bring myself down to the sea. I need to do that more often, but I also need to learn to not get bogged down so much by them when I am at home.

And then that brings up the whole other question... where is home? Is it still Johannesburg, should I think about making it Donegal, Cape Town, Nottingham Road, Sandton... is the place I am in still the place I belong - what about Alaska?

Maybe I am going through some kind of midlife crisis - maybe I am going through just a crisis of faith and experience... maybe I am just getting old.

Do I have enough - have I saved enough, am I loved enough....

The title of this post is getting over yourself. I dont think thats possible until you know exactly what you should be getting over! So time to unpack these crazy things in my mind, time to break free and open up my thoughts and plans and explore them again.

But not tonight - tonight, I just need to acknowledge that I need to... get over myself and out of my own way!