Life Quest (and other stuff)

Update: January: Being happy – more happy than not (except yesterday, which was a sad day). February: Sexy sleep wear – got nice winter ones. March: Read squash rules – read it, been sick and not playing, will start next week again. April: Donate clothes - Done. May: Plant flowers - see pic below. (Was planted last day of May - still counts!) And so we get to June And yes, I realise that we have almost made it through this month of June, but the resolution is intact, because I have already started on it. So, you say, get to the point: what do you want for June? Well. That's exactly it. What do I want for June? What do I want for any month of the year? What do I want from life? What do I want? So I started looking at this question. And I'm even trying to answer it. And it's during the answering that I realised this is not something you complete in a month. But because of the potential scope, it is something we often side step. Ignore. Hide from. And 20 y...

In my previous post I was feeling a little sad about the state of the world around me, but even though I am not a day-to-day soccer fan, the FIFA World Cup has put a spring in my step. I wasn't near a stadium on Friday, but we trotted down to our local Dros (a restaurant, but more importantly a restaurant with TVs) and settled with the other patrons, ready for the opening match between South Africa and Mexico. There were flags, vuvuzelas, badges and soccer shirts (mostly green and yellow) where ever you looked. There were singing, clapping, gasps, blowing of vuvuzelas, the shouting of "off-side" (possibly randomly) and cheering. The whole place was filled with spirit. With cooperation. With love. With support. And although it would have been nice if it ended in victory for South Africa, an end result of 1-1 was not all that bad. Now, if we are being honest, I was in the minority, wearing black rather than green and yellow. But I'm Goth, and green and yellow...