Hi Everyone!

[Heartfire At Home]

Hi Beverley! I love your avatar, you look so happy! Lovely to meet you.

Linda.

[rosierose]

Just wanted to mention Linda that I am just reading your lovely blog and having a look at those fab cushions in your little shop....... Really enjoying your thoughts and ideas......

[rosierose]

In particular this quote on your blog resonates with me and will with many I expect:

'The way to find out about your happiness
is to keep your mind on those moments
when you really ARE happy --
not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy.

This requires a little bit of self- analysis.
What is it that makes you happy?
Stay with it, no matter what people tell you.
This is what I call, 'Following Your Bliss.'

If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while, waiting for you.
And the life that you ought to be living,
is the one you ARE living.
Wherever you are, if you are following your bliss,
you are enjoying that refreshment,
that life within you, all the time.

When you can see that,
you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open doors for you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.' ~ Joseph Campbell ~

[Beverley]

Originally Posted by Heartfire At Home

Hi Beverley! I love your avatar, you look so happy! Lovely to meet you.

Linda.

Hi Linda,
Thanks! My daughter bought a new camera yesterday and was practising with it. I hate having my photo taken and she had this huge lens so close to my face and I got the giggles Luckily it is only a small avatar, cos it certainly shows up all the lines...but I think I have either earnt or enjoyed (laugh lines!) every one of them

[Heartfire At Home]

Hi Rosie, and thank you so much.

That verse by Joseph Campbell is one of my all time favourite quotes. Usually most people only quote the last couple of lines that start with 'I say....', but the whole thing is so amazingly spot on I think.

I haven't read it for a while, and reading it here today made me get goose-bumpy and fired up about the things I love the most all over again. Thanks for posting it. It really is an affirmation that following the path I've chosen to is what's right for me.

Beverley, I know what you mean about photos. We had our school photos yesterday.... and believe me when I say I do not take a good one. My partner didn't believe me until he saw the first photo of me, and he begrudgingly turned to me and said unfortunately he had to agree because I'm alot easier on the eye in real life - lol.

I actually googled why it is that some people don't take good photos a while ago, and it said something about some people's faces not translating from 3D to 2D well. The camera loves some people, and not others. Most of the time it really hates me! Oh well.... no shot at fame and fortune in tinsel land for me!

I think laughter lines are incredibly attractive! They show a life well lived. So much better than the frozen looking faces you see in Hollywood - bleh.

Linda. xox