“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”

  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~

Happy Birthday Jesse, 33 yrs old today.
Giving birth to you is still the 'most' amazing experience of my entire lifetime.

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

   ~ Steve Jobs ~

Locks of Merino Jakob Cross Wool

Spinning is a lot of work.  It's labour intensive and fun. I love spinning wool and I love creating with it when its processed and spun. 

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"Love is the absence of Judgement"

   ~ Dalai Lama ~

Australian Native flowers 

And so, Judge ye not less ye be Judged. 
Love is without judgement. 
Love is not selfish or unkind. 
Love is the most amazing feeling, to love others so much is the best. 
I love someone that way. 
He is my hero.

Happy Lupercalia, Happy St Valentines 2021

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You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

 ~ James V. Hart ~

The Dawn, its the place between Asleep and Awake.  Urunga NSW

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"The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite"

 ~ Empedocles ~

Even weeds have pretty flowers!

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You can't force them to love you or want you, but one day you'll make them realize what they've lost.

~ 2pac ~

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I've always found it curious that this first Queen of the English Monarchy was only a mere 4ft 2in tall and the daughter of Baldwin.

Queen Of The Conquerer by Tracy Borman

"Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palace of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. The count’s eldest daughter, Matilda, had refused William’s offer of marriage and publicly denounced him as a bastard. Encountering the young woman, William furiously dragged her to the ground by her hair and beat her mercilessly. Matilda’s outraged father immediately took up arms on his daughter’s behalf. But just a few days later, Baldwin was aghast when Matilda, still recovering from the assault, announced that she would marry none but William, since “he must be a man of great courage and high daring” to have ventured to “come and beat me in my own father’s palace.”

Thus began the tempestuous marriage of Matilda of Flanders and William the Conqueror. While William’s exploits and triumphs have been widely chronicled, his consort remains largely overlooked. Now, in her groundbreaking Queen of the Conqueror, acclaimed author and historian Tracy Borman weaves together a comprehensive and illuminating tapestry of this noble woman who stood only four-foot-two and whose role as the first crowned Queen of England had a large and lasting influence on the English monarchy.

From a wealth of historical artifacts and documents, Matilda emerges as passionate, steadfast, and wise, yet also utterly ruthless and tenacious in pursuit of her goals, and the only person capable of taming her formidable husband—who, unprecedented for the period, remained staunchly faithful to her. This mother of nine, including four sons who went on to inherit William’s French and English dominions, confounded the traditional views of women in medieval society by seizing the reins of power whenever she had the chance, directing her husband’s policy, and at times flagrantly disobeying his orders."

A really interesting book about a very interesting woman.

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Be a little drop of love in the ocean of someone else's pain.

~ Zuo Franklin  ~

Jake and Tim

The destruction and lack of respect for nature is what pained both of these beautiful men.

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Your Mother is always with you even if you pretend you don't have one.

~ Unknown ~

Your Mother is always with you. She’s the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street, she’s the smell of certain foods you remember, flowers you pick, the fragrance of life itself.

She’s the cool hand on your brow when you’re not feeling well, she’s your breath in the air on a cold winter’s day. She is the sound of the rain that lulls you to sleep, the colours of a rainbow. Your mother lives inside your laughter.

She’s the place you came from, your first home, and she’s the map you follow with every step you take. She’s your first love, your first friend, even your first enemy, but nothing on earth can separate you. Not time, not space, not even death.

"The Hangover of Mothers Day"

Mothers Day 2019 was full of anxiety but that isn't anything new.   I am not like the other mothers. I am Mary, and although I was blessed to give birth three times I'm left to feel these three children don't know me and even worse they don't want to know me and they definitely have no time for me. 

I feel left out and alone from my solitary position.  I dread the feeling, I dread it most when another mother says to me in passing conversation, "What did you do for Mothers Day"?   

Instantly I feel myself shake and stinging tears well up inside my eyes and I fight like hell to stop those tears from popping out of my silly old eyes and giving me up for being some kind of a fake mother.  The pain of a lifetime is being held back against the other side of my eyes.  Instantly I want to run.  I want to disappear.  I want to make it right. I want a chance like other mothers have.  There are no perfect mothers and I will never be good enough.

It may be an exaggeration, but every mother I know was heaped with love and gifts, special breakfasts, lunches or picnics in the park.  I didn't get any phone calls and no one fed me.  This intimate knowledge of what others are doing is made so visible via social media and it feels like everyone knows that I didn't get cards to keep.  

I self deprecate, I went without lunch.  I didn't want to eat just in case  my children arrived at my door as a gigantic surprise.  It would be a disaster if I was full and they arrived to take me to lunch.  Just that statement alone will tell anyone reading this how I somehow see it as I am the one responsible if things don't work out.

I'm not a real mother and that's why my children are not real children is how I try to resolve the pain.  This is the lunacy of abandonment.  This is the twisted pain of a lifetime of taking responsibility for everything as being my fault.  Yes it's this crazy thinking that overwhelms me as it does.  It disables me.  It causes me to talk nervously.  It causes me to try too hard and make mistakes.  It shows me I don't manage this very well.  It shows me I have much work yet to do.

This year was the first Mothers Day being a grandmother to Baby Luca (Jesse's son).  

"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you."

~ Robert Anton Wilson ~

I love the sky.  My love is as big as the sky.

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“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”

~ Virginia Satir ~

Virginia Satir was an American author and therapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy and her pioneering work in the field of family reconstruction therapy.

Read more about hugs here:  http://genevievegerard.com/joy/healthy-hugs/attachment/did-you-know that-a-20-second-hug-pinterest-daily-celebrations

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Grief is just love with no place to go!

~ Jamie Anderson ~

Walking home living in Urunga NSW . . .

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Love is about other, as opposed to being about self.

~ Thomas Campbell  ~

I hope my children learn this life lesson. It took me a long while to de-construct the make up of love. It is not what we think most of the time. We fall in need .... not love.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

~ Aristotle ~

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“You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.”

~ Kirsten Hubbard ~ 

Wedding Cake Ornament 
Image by Jan Kench

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I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

~ Jennifer Aniston~

That butterfly feeling is so good for your body.  Cells are healed and new growth occurs out of such a high vibrating love environment.  Enjoy Love.

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

~ Helen Keller ~

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"There are two things you shouldn't miss in the world. The last bus to get home, and a man who really loves you ."

~ Mothers ~

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“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

~ Jess C Scott ~

Brice

I am his princess and he is my prince.   I am loved so deeply and in this love I live freely.

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I Don't care too much for money, cause money cant buy me love.

~ The Beatles ~

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The heart that loves is always young.

~ Greek Proverb ~

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