Rambling and rugby balls go together.

Wow wow WOW ... but the weather’s turned dismal this afternoon!!!  The wind’s howling and the rain’s making music on the window panes ... what a turnaround from the last week or so. Any sunshine that was visible this morning is long gone - hidden behind these dark grey clouds that are threatening to engulf my city. 

Change is everywhere. I see it when I ramble in the mornings ... the change in the weather, like now... the change in the ocean tides and currents ... the changes taking place in our village as new buildings alter the visual facade of Tamaki Drive as I head down the hill. Change is supposedly good ... though a lot of the more elderly residents in our village might not agree!

I learn so much from my kids about change too (don’t ever tell them I said that though) ... I had a timely reminder from one of them today that attitude is everything. I can choose to deal with the chaos surrounding me and put myself above it all ... or I can choose to drown in it. Those of you who know me well will also know I have no choice ... my response to what’s happening will always be positive. I will always choose to rise above any difficulties I might face, even if, for a brief moment in time, I feel defeated.

Love the cloud formation

The hound though is NEVER defeated ... even when Indy pinches her ball and won’t give it back. She’s learnt that Indy’s attention span is way shorter than hers, especially where rugby balls are concerned ... and that eventually, without too much prompting from her, he’ll lose interest and drop the ball. He’s a Kiwi hound ... and we all know how these Kiwis play rugby.

You want me to what???? 

Rambling and rugby balls go together - from my hound’s perspective, that is - no ramble would be complete without the requisite number of kicks of a rugby ball into the waves. She was in luck this morning ... the eldest lemming has decided to join me on my morning meanders. A change to his routine and a change to mine ... not an unpleasant change I might add. You have no idea of the pleasure it gives me to open his bedroom door at 6.15 in the morning and instruct the hound to ‘GO FETCH GARETH!’ .... payback ..... for all the early mornings and sleepless nights when he was a littler version of himself!

If she wants it, she can come and take it off me!!!

I think he enjoyed the spectacle of the sun rise this morning almost as much as Julia and I did.  There was a lot of cloud cover but it was still beautiful and another reminder that change is all around us ... I can’t escape it!


Would I want to though?  

Just KICK that darn ball!

Change is what makes us grow into ourselves ... become the people we’re meant to be. Without change I’d face no obstacles, overcome no difficulties .... I’d stagnate. Without change, there wouldn’t be opportunities - I wouldn’t have this vision in my mind of where I want to be with my photography and art ... I wouldn’t have a DREAM.

Rumi’s quote, that a friend shared with me yesterday, says it all “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.  It will not lead you astray.”

He's pinched my coffee .... he's as bad as the hound!!!