When you are valued for who you are, rather than what you have or what you can bring to a party, you know you are truly valued by others. The truth is that value starts at home, and is not based on what others think, over which one has no control. When personal value is intact, … Continue reading When you are valued …
Being Real
Who would you be without your money?
WHO WOULD YOU BE WITHOUT YOUR MONEY? If you lost everything, would you be able to live with yourself? If you spoke the truth and showed your real self to your friends, which of them would remain to help you up when you stumbled? If you could no longer buy what impresses others, would you … Continue reading Who would you be without your money?
When We Look Into The Eyes Of Children
I wonder what you see when you look at this photograph of two children? We all see things according to our own lives and experiences, but sometimes the messages are universal. I know what I see and I know what I feel, when I look at this photograph. I know one of these children very … Continue reading When We Look Into The Eyes Of Children
Children playing
As I waved goodbye to one of my children, who was setting off back down South yesterday, watching her disappear down the country road, I turned back to close our gate slowly and stopped to take in this sign pinned onto our property ... "Children playing. Keep gate closed." It spoke volumes to me. How … Continue reading Children playing
Thoughts on a friend’s birthday
It is a special friend's birthday today and I am thinking of her, wishing that we could see one another and celebrate her birthday together ... but she is in the southern hemisphere and I am in the northern hemisphere, so I am going to content myself with sending her thoughts of happiness and strength and joy instead. … Continue reading Thoughts on a friend’s birthday
Life is worth mastering …
The piece below was written upon waking this morning, Tuesday 17th February 2015, and flowed from my pen as I allowed the words to 'write' themselves. The thoughts come from my own experience of life, and my own journey, but the flow of words was not controlled. I simply allowed them to be, just as I … Continue reading Life is worth mastering …
Image is all about ego
On this chilly Tuesday morning, as I watched the sun spreading its light across the sky, with a hotwater bottle pressed firmly against my back, I wrote a few words in my journal, which I thought I would share via The Holly Tree Tales today... on the 'ego' and what we present to the world as our 'image': … Continue reading Image is all about ego
The Holly Tree Tales 