The boys are back in town

In a couple of days the boys will be back from Italy, I know they enjoyed their holiday very much. I don’t think I ever missed so much like these two weeks,Especially last week. Being in Leitrim without them, messing around was quite unusual. It was a pity there were a lot of kids around for easter I’m sure they would have had a great time .

Yesterday evening I took part to JCI meeting, it was quite by chance really and I had a great privilege to listen to Lisa O’Shea, the daughter of the founder of Goal. It is so reassuring to know that there are such wonderful people like Lisa and Marianne in the world, they are blessed with a unique view the world and a wonderful power to inspire others. I’m struggling to describe the quality that makes them so, it is a blend of relentless optimism, coupled with an assertive intolerance for ignorance (the kind of ignorance that mistakes abundance for greed).

I often wonder if there is a switch somewhere in our soul that can turn us in the extraordinary creature we can be. I often wonder where is mine in any case, but I guess that is the reason I’m on this hearth. To find that switch… 😉

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Choices

These have been trying days, the project have been making very slow progress. The key challenge for me is making sure to do something very small every day to keep the idea alive till is the time of departure. The search for a field front started yearn some results, we found something suitable, for sale instead of rent. The field has a lot of potential for our future family plans and has opened a new series of challenges. Shall we try and buy?… It is amazing to think that it all started 6 years ago when Matthew wanted to try horse riding. As any parent would do we supported him, 6 years later our entire life is pervaded by horses 🙂

Yes maybe this is a path we need to follow. A few years ago I remember reading a wonderful Book, ‘Synchronicity’ by Joseph Jaworsky. In the book one of the passages that got my attention was when the author explained and interesting metaphor; this is my recalling of it:

Life is like a river and we often trying to row our canoe against the current. Pretty soon we find that despite the incredible effort, we don’t make much progress. When we finally decide to turn the canoe around and follow the flow of the river we discover that we can go a long way without too much effort.[singlepic id=1 w=320 h=240 float=right]

The way I interpreted this passage is that life has a way of ‘unfolding’, I have the choice to row along with the flow of life or against it. I also have the choice to just stop along the shore and wait for something to happen. There is no fault in any of these choices I make; as long as I recognise that is my own choice, and that I’m ready to deal with the consequences and accept the implications. And Know that any day I can make a different chice: row against the current, row with the current, or just wait another day for something to happen.

For me this is an empowering thought.

Tags: Horses, project