Elora Walking Tour

I went on a Walking Tour of Elora on Saturday.

Elora Walking Tour

For $10.00 you get to sample: Olive Oil & Vinegar, Crepes, Bread and Cheese, Meats, Soup, Desserts, Ice Cream and Beer. You walk around Elora and get a bit of a History lesson.

These are some of the places you visit.

The Shepherd's Pub, (519) 846-5775 - 8 Mill St W

Skinny Stella's, 133 Metcalfe, 519-846-1510

The Village Olive Grove
Elora Mill Inn
Whispers
The River

This is a great way to spend a few hours.

They will also be doing some Fergus tours.

They are on Facebook. Walking Tour Check it out.

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Okay, I think that I will have to read this book a second time. I am enjoying it - but I think I am trying to hard to - get what I should from this book, to improve my life.

Maybe I need to just improve my life and the rest will follow.

I have not looked at the word Career in the way Martha does - using the dictionary definition. A course, a path.... wow, great thoughts. A way or path - like through a ...... insert your own word. Love it.

I like the idea of using a bell. I love bells. There is a saying that - You can not pass a bell without hearing its sound. I will try and use that thought to stop and focus on my desires in life.

I am having a hard time remembering what I was doing on Sept. 11/01. Or another crisis in my life - the death of my husband 12 years ago. I frankly do not remember what I did. I think it was be around people and talk to them.... but besides that I can not remember. So, there is some thinking to do - or maybe that is what I mean by re-reading the book.

I am going to try and get rid of my Mouse views and have more Eagle views in my life. I know I am using the - "My job is ...... me. but I need the money..".

I have written my 3 small mousey things -
-read more artistic books/magazines
-investigate (Take a risk) what I want
-Tackle getting "Who does she think she is..", to the small theatre near by


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Nature Walk

I went to see my granddaughter Dayna last weekend.

We went for a walk, which she proceeded to call a Nature Walk and told me which pictures to take.

Here are some of them.

And she has lost her first tooth.

Treats

I have a quote from Martha Beck - from quote of the Day.

It turns out those "turtle steps" I take may actually be more useful than a jackrabbit sprint.

I am taking her at her word, because I am not quite finished this chapter - yet.

Please come back as I will finish it later today.

Risk

LIFE = RISK

Watch this. Get Inspiration. Take Risks. Live.

Risk - The Joy Diet

Against all thoughts that I had - I was not looking forward to reading this chapter - I was surprised - I enjoyed this chapter very much and the push to try RISK - that I need. I realized while reading it - that I had not done menu items 1-4 - for about 4 days. Wow, how easy it is to go back to our regular life. Love the part where Jamie says - (from transcripts from last week)

when you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.

Because that is what happened to me.

Risk

I am going to take a risk. Everyday do at least one frightening thing that contributes to the fulfillment of my desires.

Who knows.

So, I do have a bit of a plan and I have listed what I can do.

My risks entail Looking into a few things, get Bed and Breakfast information, apply to jobs, etc., that will benefit what I REALLY want in life, checking out the internet, job banks, B&B sites, and going to a open house this weekend for a Leader Dog - information gathering, and biggest of them all - KEEP doing my art.

Thank you to all who have signed my blog - and who have given me ideas. I will use them.

Martha says, "Refusing to risk is like allowing a muscle to atrophy." Really great statement.

I added at the end of my journalling - DO menu items, everday, THE ideas will come.

What Do I wish to say Yes to?

Wow, what a question.

I wish to say yes:

- to a new job - close to home
- to walking through the door that is open
- to having the courage to take a risk
- to have the courage to right a wrong

Thanks.

Joy Diet - Creativity

It seems that I can not come up with any new ideas, no matter how far out or whatever they are for Menu Item #4.

Every day, conceptualize and write down at least one new, concrete idea that will help you obtain something your heart desires.

I keep coming to the same ones -

-Quit job (Change the path I am on)
- Work on art
- Work on both art and paying job
- Get a new job
-get better organized - so I can do both art and paying job

I did add

- Open a Bed & breakfast ( This is a dream/want that I desire and have for a while - also, along with my art)

I will work hard at coming up with new menu items #4

We have to remember that no matter how crazy it might be - IT MIGHT WORK
Remember that WE create OUR life.

Best part of the chapter to me was - the exercise - Fill in the Blanks.

I intend to be both Happy and Sad.
I intend to have both Success and Failure.
I intend to do both Art and my paying work.

What do I wish to let go.

The definition of - Let go : Release as from ones hand

There is a great poem - Leting Go Takes Love

Author Unkown

To let go does not mean to stop caring,
it means I can't do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off,
it's the realization I can't control another.
To let go is not to enable,
but allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means
the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try to change or blame another,
it's to make the most of myself.
To let go is not to care for,
but to care about.
To let go is not to fix,
but to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge,
but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their destinies.
To let go is not to be protective,
it's to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny,
but to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold or argue,
but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To let go is not to criticize or regulate anybody,
but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past,
but to grow and live for the future.

Okay, I was able to apply this to my daughter and let go.

Why can I not let go of my indecision and just let what is coming to me come.

Why can I not just step through the doors that have opened.

My wish about what I would like to let go - is:

I want to let go of indecision. The hesitation that I feel about my art life.

I wish to learn to let go of my indecision, my hesitation and fear.

There I have said it. My fear of what could happen - GOOD or BAD.

Desire

Desire - I found this definition for desire , it sums up what I thought very nicely -

the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

Desire.

I enjoyed this chapter.

Menu item #3 - is close to the Law of Attraction. What you think is what you get.

AND

Desire defining Step 6 : Leave the Beaten Path - sounds like the book This Time I Dance.

So, let's Pick a Pebble, Any Pebble and follow it till we get to our hearts' desire.

Life is for living.

Dreamboard

Since Autumn is a time of harvest - I hope that we can all harvest what we have sown.

I am thinking of myself right now - I am working on getting a new job and would like to harvest a position from the many resumes that I have sent out.

If I made a vision board of this, and could photograph this - it would have

fall colours, a picture of me driving along enjoying the colours of the fall leaves - taking a short vacation - before starting a new path of my life.

I have started a new path - but this would be in addition to what I am doing.

May you all enjoy the Full Harvest Moon.

Truth

I really liked this chapter. I too grew up in a church that said - "Ours is the one true church" - then I went to another one who claimed that also.

I liked this line - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - "there are times when silence is a lie".

Why, because there are times I keep silent and it may seem that I agree - but my silence is a lie.

Happened the other day at work. I had had my say the night before, and my boss "had" to try and discuss it again - the next day on the phone - and all I said - was "ummhumm", " ummhumm".

I was not agreeing - but my silence made it seem like I may have been. So my silence was a lie.

Another part I liked is - page 39 - I needed this book a few times over the past Years - with my daughter. I needed to ask myself - Can I be sure my painful story is true? - I was that woman at the bottom of the page - I needed to say "Here is what was true: woman sitting in chair waiting for her beloved daughter."

One more part of the chapter that I hit home with me. " "Victor Frankl - a survivor of the Nazi death camps, said: "there are two ways to go to the gas chamber: free or not free." "

So, Let's take the best parts of this book and grow.

I'd like to change what Victor said - Just a bit - THERE are two ways to read The Joy Diet - Free or Not Free. I think THAT WE will be free-er by the end of this book.

Wednesday

Wow, what a beautiful day and weather.

My wish for today is to share with one another and encourage one another. Thanks for the wishes and the truth each one of us shares.

My wish is that we can learn to be kinder to one another more.

Keep sharing and encouraging.

Nothing - Joy Diet

Nothing.

Not a Thing. I seem to remember - someone telling me to break it down... Not A Thing.

Sounds easy... NO it was not.

Yes, I did take a few times this week to do nothing... but I still find my mind wandering... thinking...

It was very hard to do nothing...

Busy brain - yes, that is part of it.

But I can truly say - that I have done nothing for part of my life. AND been very happy over it...

What luxury do I wish for?

A luxury is - something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity

Wow, I thought this would be easy.


http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/wishcasting

Okay, for me right now a vacation would be an indulgence... Change is as good as a vacation. New job would be nice.....

creative

Altered book. I am back to working on it.

I will post a picture - foggy as it will be - as soon as possible.

Went for a short walk as I wanted to....

Started the Joy Diet...

More

Have I been creative today?

Have I blogged today?

Thanks to all of you - So much to learn from one another.

Hmm.... Creative Collage, bake, Notice Joy, Vision Card - Collage about Nothing or even something - like Joy.... Keep a journal or a page in your journal or carry a small notebook and pen.

Ideas... now to continue.

Notice Joy.

Joy Diet

Okay, so what do I hope for.

More Joy in my life. Help on my journey in life. Peace, Love and self indulgence. More art and less stress. More of Nothing, more mediataion and Risk taking.

I need to step through doors and find peace. I know it is there.

I hope everyone will find what they need to add to their lives.

Here's to the Joy Diet.

Dream board

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Okay, My Dream would be - for me to develop my art more. To Begin a new and better life.... with art and other...

I would also like peace in my life... Peace with whatever I end up doing.

Words to use would be.

Peace
Art
Begin
Health
Walk through and take the opportunities
Wide Openings
More Organization in my life
Create more

Wow, just realize that it seems I want a lot... but who knows, maybe they are one and the same.

Try -
http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/full-moon-dreamboards

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Peace to you all.

Abbott and Costello in 2009

If Abbott and Costello were alive today…
By Marc Saltzman.

Even if you’re not old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, you’re probably aware of their timeless “Who’s on First?” baseball sketch. But imagine what that same skit would be like in the 21st century?




Legendary comedy duo Abbott and Costello

I took this from - http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2009/08/if-abbott-and-costello-were-alive-today.html


Thanks to my mom Honey (yes, that’s her name!) for sending me this amusing email forward — based on the classic Who’s on First? skit. If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today…it might sound something like this…

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: Thanks I’m setting up an office in my den and I’m thinking about buying a computer.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: No, the name’s Lou.

ABBOTT: Your computer?

COSTELLO: I don’t own a computer. I want to buy one.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: I told you, my name’s Lou.

ABBOTT: What about Windows?

COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?

ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?

COSTELLO: I don’t know.. What will I see when I look at the windows?

ABBOTT: Wallpaper.

COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.

ABBOTT: Software for Windows?

COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?

ABBOTT: I just did.

COSTELLO: You just did what?

ABBOTT: Recommend something.

COSTELLO: You recommended something?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: For my office?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!

ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.

COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let’s just say I’m sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?

ABBOTT: Word.

COSTELLO: What word?

ABBOTT: Word in Office.

COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.

ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.

COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?

ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue ‘W’.

COSTELLO: I’m going to click your blue ‘w’ if you don’t start with some straight answers. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: That’s right. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?

ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.

COSTELLO: What’s bundled with my computer?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?

ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.

COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?

ABBOTT: One copy.

COSTELLO: Isn’t it illegal to copy money?

ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.

COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?

ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!

(A few days later)

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?

ABBOTT: Click on ‘START’………….

Uniforms to Paper - ART Therapy

This is a very interesting way to get over the affects of being in the US Army and fighting overseas.

I am sure a lot of people could benefit from it... Too Bad we did not have this when my Dad and others of his age needed it - after WW2.

Try this instead of Pills.


http://www.idahostatesman.com/usnews/story/857463.html?story_link=email_msg

Art Therapy works.

Wreck this journal

Okay, loved working on this journal. I spend my lunch times on it.

Circles, little ones, big ones, over and over. Using watercolour pencils. Then I spritzed it with water.

One word over and over. Attraction, then put it Law of - a few times.

Colour outside of the lines. Funny - when I was small, I remember colouring in my colouring books. Took a crayon or whatever and carefully coloured a line around the inside of the line - then coloured in the rest. So this time did the same outside of the line.

The next was supposed to be a cow - but it looks like a bit of a horse to me....

Love this journal.

My Dad had this record.

He played it a lot.

I went to Expo 67 and loved it.



Bobbie Gimby's Canada Song


Check out this song.

Destruction -------- > Creation

I am participating (a few weeks late!) in this fun Destruction ---- > Creation blog. Wreck This Journal

I have dripped coffee on a page, then added words and embelished the coffee drip. Written on the side, punched holes in a page, coloured outside the lines and a few others.

This is pushing my comfort zone a bit. I usually treat my books - very good. I hate when there is turned down corners, writing in the book, stepped on or wet books - so this is fun, because I have allowed myself to do something I am not completely comfortable with.

Here is one of the pages I started.

Fun blog site

Have you ever wondered what to do with your failed projects.

Well, here is the answer. Create a blog. AND post regularly.

Check out this blog. Really fun. Heather