Rebel incarnate!!

My hound .... doing what she does best ... retrieving logs ... and "Mad Hatter" Bella!!

CHANGE requires COURAGE .... 3 words .... so simple but with such depth .... sometimes we get so caught up in doing what’s expected of us ... in worrying about everyone else’s needs ..... in doing what’s ‘RIGHT’ .... that we completely lose track of who we are and what brings us joy!  We’re all guilty of it .... not just me .....

I loved my note from the universe today .... it’s brilliant and so pertinent to the thought of just doing what brings us joy .... it goes something like this

“Picture if you will, Carol, the disciplinarian who micro-manages every step in their very careful dance with life .... and then picture the hooligan whose only disciplines are daydreaming and showing up. Now .... who do you think is most likely to be heard whoo-hoo'ing from the top of their lungs as they cruise along some winding mountain road, top down, shades up, singing "I Did It My Way"? 


Whoo-hoo! The Universe
Love your singing voice, Carol... and that legendary rebel yell.”

I had to chuckle .... it made so much sense given how I’d been thinking this morning.  The other part that made me chuckle was the vision of me cruising down some winding mountain road with the top down ... that I can SO picture ... my friends in SA and my family know just how much I loved my little blue MG .... and especially driving it with the top down .... rebel incarnate .... oh yes!!! 

Gav met me on the beach for coffee and got roped in to throwing
sticks for the mob!

I’ve been doing lots of visualisation recently ..... something to do with a certain tournament that’s happening here right now .... the more I visualise, the better both my teams are playing ... so I’m going to keep right on visualising ..... Wales beating Ireland .... (sorry Cheryltjie) .... and SA beating Aus.  I’m having a little trouble with the Wales beating Ireland one because Ireland are just playing out of their socks ..... sad to say I don’t seem to be able to visualise the Flightless Fowls doing so well either ........ maybe it’s something to do with the delectable Dan Carter being out of the team.

As with all tournaments of this nature though anything can happen .... I’ll just visualise, visualise ... and visualise some more .... and enjoy all the rugby ...... and the eye candy, of course!

The grey days have been replaced with sunshine today so I took ‘Double-Trouble’ to the beach .... my hound and Bella that is ..... sans Bella’s human .....

Bella loves a walk as much as my hound does .... except that it has to be done at Bella’s pace ...... she doesn’t respond well to walking to heel and by the time we reached the beach my one arm was infinitely longer than the other.

You would assume that 2 chocolate Labradors wouldn’t be too much trouble on the beach .... after all Labradors are laid-back ...... water-loving,  friendly creatures ..... obedient most of the time ...  yes ....  most of the time.   Hmmmm ..... but then you come across Bella .... she’s the ‘ADD’ of Labradors ........ frenetic .... fast-moving ..... easily distracted ...... hare-brained ...... an agile will-o’-the-wisp "Mad Hatter" of the Labrador world!  The sunshine meant lots of hounds on the beach to play with, so she raced her little cotton socks off up and down the beach and in and out the waves .......... going home was a breeze compared to coming down to the beach .......

So now I’m back home and working on this Courage and Change thingy ..... bright ideas have been flowing in abundance the last day or so .... and not just from me .... so I’m trying to turn these marvellous visions into something tangible ...... I can see them in my mind but they’re not always that easy to adapt to the physical ..... but I’m getting there .... oh YES .... I'm getting there!

In her eyes nothing is IMPOSSIBLE ..... now that's how I need to think!!