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Me, myself, I.

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Om……….indeed.

A dreamer.

A fingers crossed optimist.

A guy who takes time out to look at the moon.

Who doesn’t mind sitting in elongated isolation…simply ruminating.

A guy who seeks inwards and tries to find peace in simply being.

A wishful thinker.

Nothing ever concrete.

Nothing planned to the Nth degree.

Yet everything seems to be attained somehow.

Not always for the better.

But just as satisfying if it remains in the Status Quo.

Simplicity is key.

50 thoughts on “Me, myself, I.”

    1. Maybe this chain of thought came from the chaos, but very enjoyable, three weeks of the grandchildren visiting. Quickest blog I have ever written. A few minutes. At times you realise life has to stop being hectic. Having our own two children (now mid 30 year olds), the visitors here to Wales for weeks on end at times in the first decade and a half of living here and the Staff Nurse role it’s nice to look inwards now having the time to do so. It is retirement that has allowed this cease of activities. Being busy in DIY and gardening has a different dynamic. Now it also is under control, the Om period can truly be realised. Aged at 67 in 9 days now also puts perspective on how to live daily. Your body tells you to ‘slow down Man……it’s beginning to hurt!’ Cheers Brenda, as ever, for your very much appreciated thoughtful reply. 🙏🏽

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      5. Yes, shining here too. That social time is really important. He’s been away looking after his mum since March, so it’s been challenging. But she’s now settling into her nursing home so he can start to move back home, but we do still need to clear the house 😁

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      6. Clearing a house. That will be a job and a half! Pleased that your life is getting back to being settled too. Support and company in daily routines is priceless. I wish for a gardening buddy sometimes. A bit of company in the activities to give motivation a good lift up.

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      7. Definitely having someone to share with, and to provide support and encouragement makes such a difference. But I coped alone with my accidents, so im also really proud of myself that I kept going and got through the other end

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      12. Arnica is a sound principle to bring the bruising out. Aloe Vera is a good intervention afterwards. But please, if you consider this as an application, check out the compatibility with your own trauma base. What am I saying! You know your research principles extremely well. 😊

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      17. I know you research as an expert. So you know sites that are valuable. The Cochrane library is a valuable source to consider re: medicine and health considerations. I could only use specific interventions from my limitations on the ward. My Masters course on Chronic Conditions Management focused on Complementary Therapy. So awareness of many therapies were studied back then. Hence me mentioning aloe vera. But I had no chance to try them out. Hospice care is more open to such interventions. Also, a visual status of where conditions are at stage wise also helps. Dry or wet eczema, for example, would require different applications. I’m in no way a Tissue Viability (skin viability) expert at all. We called in the specialist nurses for considerations of how to proceed. It’s good you are succeeding at the healing process. I spoke to a doctor on a ward round regarding good nutrition as a healer. He was fully behind the food as a healer principle. He spoke of Ayurvedic philosophy and it’s values as a therapy.

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      18. I think its important that we should be open to the range of factors that can impact on us, not discounting holistic or alternative approaches. Sometimes things work together to complement each other

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      19. You’re spot on. The NHS require evidence from research and that being the case they don’t adopt certain therapy choices. Some therapies, which have proved effective over hundreds to thousands of years, have no appropriate studies. So are not considered.

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      20. Thats the problem as you say. I had a letter on Thursday inviting me to join a clinical trial for migraine prevention drugs … im undecided. I’ve asked for more details

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      21. You are wise to look into what they are studying. Certainly enquire deeply the trial inclusions and what is involved. It is definitely worth a chat with your doctor once you learn the guidelines and content.

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      22. I will. The introductory letter came from the gp surgery. But with my understanding of research, I have a ton of questions… they probably saw my queries and though, nah, she’s a troublemaker

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  2. That fabled “me time”. When I have some, I really do appreciate it.
    Love the illustrations too. I designed a monogram G for Gail years ago, which is very similar to your dragon. We’ll have to compare notes!
    Hope your summer has been good and that the kids behaved! See you soon xx

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    1. Your dragon drawings? The list you write down on paper of the types of stones you put into my mantra string. That has a dragon on it. I was probably influenced by your own wee dragon drawn. Actually, thinking about this one, the shape developed from a squiggle from a plastic ink container. I put the little dragon additions on it by drawing out from the squiggle line with a dip nib. So there was no intention of doing a drawing. Instinctive Ianto influence involved. 😊 I dropped all the bags, etc. down to Worcester on Wednesday. Took my granddaughter down and had a great conversation over the three hour journey. A very enlightened and bright girl she is too. Going to secondary school this coming term. She’ll do well. And yes, the kids did have a nice time. They said they want to visit more often. Loved Angie’s shop! Cheers Ianto. Catch up as soon as. Xx

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      1. Aha! Could be the dragon monogram! Remind me to tell you about ‘dragon energy’ when I see you next. A lot of coincidences around the subject….
        Glad the kids had a good time. Your three hour conversation sounds great – she’ll always remember it, the time grandad gave her a lift home and the lovely chat you had. Making memories is the best!!!

        Have a great weekend xxx

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      2. Look forward to hearing your dragon energy thoughts. My pottery moniker was ‘Beacon Pottery. Where the Dragons Sleep’. About time they were reawakened. I bought her some Bluetooth headphones for listening on her iPhone whilst she was up here. She can listen to her music now in peace whilst her siblings are creating the noise that younger ones tend to do! You have a good weekend too. Xx

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      4. Not when I had to tell them off for jumping up and down on the upstairs floor. Noise at a level you couldn’t put a decibel number to. I told them they’d break the radiator water pipes under the floorboards and we’d have a huge flood. Like to give a rational reason of explanation of why not to do something. 😊 You know my name for my own grandad was Grancha. Tom Jones is a Grancha. So it is a South Wales name. So I have adopted Grancha for continuation of my Welsh family history. They were shocked a few years ago to actually find that my name wasn’t Grancha in reality. Xx

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      1. Sure! I often feel the simplest things offer the deepest insights. The wings of the dragon are almost wispy, and the heart in the tail speaks volumes to me. Of course I love the spiral.
        One of my favorite books is called Reasonable Dragons by Dr. Alison J. Kay and I just love dragons.

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      2. Simplicity in all avenues in life is less stressful nowadays. The garden for example. I’ve left the garden to balance itself and not fight the seemingly unwanted intrusions. Years of Mother Nature producing interwoven dynamics to find its own balance within an eco system can carry on regardless if it is not wholesale invasive. If the leaf cutter bees or sticky insects want to cause some perceived destruction to certain leaves or roots, then plant something adjacent or in the vicinity that makes them keep away, be wary of or they like more than what you want to grow and use. Don’t fight them off directly. Trying to find the simple balance is a simple ‘look it up and read about it’ away. If it falls into place? Great. If not, then don’t plant that particular again. Just go with the flow. I made dragons in my pottery days. They were very popular. I haven’t read the book you state. If I say I will hunt it down, it may well sit for some months not read. But I will look it up. Cheers Sheila.

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      3. I hear you about the book. I used to assist Dr. Alison and have read all her books since I know her heart. She used to live in Asia (10 years) and I met her just after she returned to the states. Point is, speaking of letting things be and F-L-O-W she has been leading small tours from the states to the UK sacred sites. But a year or so prior (and after I had left her practice), my husband and I went on a sacred Celtic Journey with my hypnotherapist! I was so amused thinking I was bound to meet up with my Celtic ancestry and sacred spiral no matter whom I followed/connected with! Ha! All roads lead to the same home.
        p.s. I totally get what your saying about the plants and bugs, etc. When I got stung by the stinging nettle I learned to rub the dock leaf til moist and apply to the sting to ease it! Ha! They grow side by side (I was in Scotland at the time).

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      4. That’s a very interesting insight regarding sacred UK sites and to your connection with the author. Also your seeking of heritage. I have met, over the years, many people who are ethical ecologically and have faith in natural ways of living. But the only people with the mystical qualities in their lives were met when making my pottery. The ceramic theme tended to attract those who spoke of such subjects. Life for myself is one of seeking a more grounded contentment. Less worrisome adoptions. The VeeDub goes well once up and running, but starts extremely badly. Before I would be down in the dumps and thinking ‘could it just behave for once!’ But I’m just biding time and the problem will eventually show itself. Nettles and dock leaves are never far away from each other. I fell backwards into a pile last week. Even stung through the shirt! Cheers Sheila. Your super interesting reply is much appreciated.

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      5. My mom worked in a pottery plant when I was a teenager. My mom was the most mystical person I knew and she has come back to visit me in dreams. Not in a spooky way, but in a comforting way. She always told me she wished for me to have my own spiritual experiences but it would take me years to have any.
        Thinking back on all this, I feel you’re right about the pottery. It’s why I bought a special pottery bowl some years ago too. Hmm.

        As for the VeeDub, I have often said, to cars I’ve owned “behave for once!” I now think all those kinds of things happen for a reason. Hmm perhaps Everything happens for a reason. And here we are now with me bringing up nettles and dock leaves and you just recently falling into some! Uncanny!

        Our chats are always interesting. Thank you profoundly.

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      6. Because I am no artist in the sense of painting, clay was a perfect medium. I cannot visualise imagery as you know. And so, all of the little drawings produced are simplistic. Copying others’ art has never been on the agenda. Clay, being moulded, produces the shapes itself. I helped it along the way to the conclusions. And of course the basic positive of it being from the Earth. Solid and permanent. It’s good you have revisits from your Mom. The visits comfort in times of need. Dreams have great meaning. They come to help guide your subconscious thoughts. When you pay no attentions to what is bubbling underneath in your daily life experiences. I never remember the visuals of dreams on waking. Sometimes the stories or messages themselves. They just leave me feeling at peace. Or dread. With no concrete memory to hold on to. The VeeDub engine sounds amazing. But the electrics or fuel starvation is contributing to her not performing well. It turns, won’t start, multiple times, then suddenly catches and she’s up and running. The nettle experience happened on a small slope and I slipped backwards. The nettles are a positive. They make you realise that there is the ability of actually having ‘feeling responses’ in your system. Therefore Substance P is at work. Pain perception, as it heightens then calms over the hours, is in balance. Cheers for the interesting reply again Sheila.

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  5. Still enjoyed this Gray. But its surprising what you see the second time around … why are you/the character, sitting on the end of an elephant’s trunk? Or is it just me that sees an elephant?

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    1. Thank you Brenda. Had a purge of throwing loads of posts into draft a few months back. To clean up the chaos. When you go at the posts published like a bull at a gate, you wonder why you have removed them. So I put them back into publish again. I thought they would just slot back into where they were and not as a new feed. Weird. And yes, it is an elephant. You’re the only one that has mentioned it. You win first prize Brenda. 😊

      I have been remiss and unfocused on others’ uploads for about a week or so. Have arranged a band rehearsal down in Coventry and Rugby for next weekend. So have been practicing. A musician period in blogger’s land is taking the focus away from commenting. Still reading. Will catch up commenting properly on your enjoyable write ups as soon as. All the best Brenda.

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