Birthday update

I have been busy celebrating my birthday - the older you get the more you are grateful for another year. I may be older, have a knee that doesn't work well and general aches and pains, but boy it is good to be alive.

A simple life, but a good one. That is all I want.

We went to Chichester for my birthday intending to follow the Hoot trail - decorated owls. The owls simple didn't do it for us, but it got us to Chichester where we visited the cathedral which we found absolutely fascinating and well worth the trip

Three of the owls we found - just not inspired by them

 

 

 

The stunning Arundel screen

 

 

The oldest part of the cathedral - dates back to 1108

and the roman flooring underneath

A 'modern' addittion painted in 30 and the first known full length portrait of Henry V!!!

 

 

 

A very modern Victorian Window that was huge and stunning

 

 

 

and the latest  addition - a Marc Chagall window

 

 

An the grounds were beautiful

 

 

 

 

 

Some new scrapping

Credits

Vitamin Sea collection by Palvinka Designs

And this one using a July premium sketch from Scrap a Sketch and a scrap a sketch stencil

 

 

 

 

and thank you for the support of my blog ...it will carry on, just probably only a couple of times a week.

 But I love that you still visit and read.

And finally, I wanted to share this

 

I LOVE THIS ANALOGY:

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.

Why did you spill the coffee?

"Because someone bumped into me!!!"

Wrong answer.

You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.

Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.

Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.

Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.

So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"

When life gets tough, what spills over?

Joy, gratitude, peace and humility?

Anger, bitterness, victim mentality and quitting tendencies?

Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.

Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.

 

Comments

[Barb in AK]

I love the thought at the end.
Lately Steve and I have been discussing some of the very difficult times he has had since I’ve met him in 1970, and some tough times before I knew him. Looking back, it’s easy to see how everything worked out so very well. Steve has made an impact for so many others when he has been so down and out ( or so he had believed.) I am afraid when the hard times come for me, I have always been the whiner and defeatist.
Never a thought in my head about anything or anyone else. God knew who I needed by my side in life to always keep me level-headed and helpful outside of myself.