Personality plus

I recently discovered the 16 Personalities Test.  No surprise to find I am 96% introvert :)

Got the children to do it.  Amazing how different they all are...and how accurate it is.  Not in all aspects, but in the traits that are more pronounced/extreme.  Give it a try, and see how you turn out...

Link is HERE

And at the library this morning I collected a book I had reserved.  The Introvert Advantage...

I was actually reading reviews on Amazon for another Introvert book, and one of the customer reviewers mentioned this book.  I've flicked through and it looks good.  And it's got some great quotes (I'm a bit of a quote junkie).  Here are some below that I liked...

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs - H Stein

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together - Robert Dodds

Children are like wet cement.  Whatever falls on them makes an impression - Haim Ginott

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today - Stacia Tauscher

To find the good life you must become yourself - Dr Bill Jackson

The only gift is a portion of thyself - Ralph Waldo Emerson

While my work has been before me, my reward has always been within me - Shaker saying

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not - Mark Twain

We are not human beings trying to be spiritual.  We are spiritual beings trying to be human - Jacquelyn Small

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of travelling - Margaret Lee Runbeck

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it - William A Ward

And from one of my favourite authors...

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind - Anne Lamott

And will leave you with this one...

 

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you,

Even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances,

and from it you will finds all your paths - Rainer Maria Rilke

Travel your own path...

 

xx

Courage is...

 

2018 Tasmanian Mennonite Church Annual Conference

Here are the details for anyone interested...

Rain??

But will it...

 early morning anticipation

It did...

but hardly enough to be worth mentioning

Foggy Friday

Lovely fog down by the river this morning...

 the fog masking the sun

 the walk bridge at the weir

 looking at rail bridge from walk bridge

 on the east side, looking back to road  and rail bridge

  

from the walk bridge at the caravan park (on left)

I know, I know...it's an obsession!!

But just so you know my day is not all grey...

enjoying the latest Aust. Country Style mag with my morning coffee

Hope you have some 'colour' in your day too :))

 

xx

One bowl Wednesday

Made another one bowl wonder for lunch....

 (lettuce, baby rocket leaves, capsicum, cucumber, tomato, beetroot, hardboiled egg, cashews, pumpkin seeds)

Picked up this book from the Post Office today (ex Book Depository)...

it will have to go in the ever growing 'to read' pile

And just finished reading The Disaster Artist.  As mentioned in a previous post, I saw the movie The Disaster Artist recently.  And moving backwards, I've now finished the book.  I really enjoyed both the movie and the book.  I still have to see The Room (which started it all).

So I'm sort of doing it 'in hindsight', and it seems to be working, in that I have insight into what is happening as I watch it unfold...backwards.  I bet all that really makes sense !?!? :)

What ever works for you!

 

xx

Tuesday tête-à-tête

Another hot day here, so enjoying my coffee and thoughts of cool, calm, autumn days...

 grey skies and seas

 sunlight on frost

Watched (from the library) Inch' Allah.  What a deeply, moving story...

Then tried to watch Saving Mr Banks (as recommended by a fellow library patron), but after 20 minutes had to turn if off.  I'm sure it's a good movie, but after viewing the previous one it seemed a bit frivolous and silly.



Reading through The Road... and doing a bit of a study/discussion with a friend...

And you can see some of my 'secret project' in the background (but don't tell!)

Will close with some quotes from the book.  There are more HERE.

“If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [...] - all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.”

 

 

  “We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.”

 

 

“The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive."

 

 

Mind food!

 

xx