Grace

For me, boredom can breed creativity, idiocy or insanity. It’s easy to advise to meditate, but in reality this doesn’t tend to have any baring. If you’re feeling a little bit rubbish in life, the best advice I could offer, is to take a look around. When life gives you lemons, you do what you can with a bunch of lemons, as there’s only so many gin and tonics you can drink and making a pie is a fab idea, but how much time do you have, really?

So, in an act of grace, I shall live in the moment, and be thankful for 5 things, right here, right now… (so Fatboy Slim did have a spiritual connotation to his music, I knew it).

* The sunrise is shining right through my window over the trees and a frosty field. Take that for a picturesque Winters scene.

* The Darth Vader potato head on my windowsill. He has a red lightsaber, plastic trainers that are far too large in proportion to his body, and he is, without a doubt, the most coolest, kitsch thing known to man.

* I can see the sheep in the field and they’ve started lambing! When I go jogging, a few of them will lie by the fence and I’ll stick my hand through to stroke them. I’m pretty sure they’ve likened me to the ‘Child Catcher’ from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang…’Look lively guys, it’s her again’. Feel a bit bad for them in this freezing weather though. Hope their coats hurry up and grow.

* My lack of head fog. This is my first lie in for about a week and a half! I’ve started a new job recently working in a home for disabled people, which I’m absolutely loving, and I’d like to think that I’ve now recovered from the night shifts. So, with a comfy nights sleep and the lack of alcohol consumption last night, my head is no longer a stormy sea, but a tranquil reservoir.

* I’ve just found a chocolate bar in my bedside table, does that count?

There we have it, that’s my grace for the morning. And do you know what? I’m feeling better already. And I’m off to Berlin on Monday – horah!! I can’t wait.

Darth!! More Garth than Darth…

Best buds…

The top pic is a close up of a mandala I made then stuck on a card…

❤ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6MWSvk5N4