It*s the little things that make the difference.
The more we travel in this world the more we realise that it is not about what we can get out of it, but what we can do to make it better for everyone, that counts the most at the end of the day.
We may not be able to singularly end wars but we can be nice to the people we meet, we may not be able to seal the ozone layer on our own, but we can recycle our waste products, we may not be able to help with local environmental projects, but we can reduce what we add to the local landfill through creative innovation for packaging and secondhand goods; thinking twice before replacing something that is still working because we are bored with it. We can hold garage sales and fill Salvation Army bins, instead of idly chucking things into the bin. We may not be able to help every old granny across the road, but we can start by loving and accepting ourselves in a self nuturing way, rather than a self cherishing one.
There are many ways we can bring about health and healing to ourselves and the planet, and ways of doing this facilitated by more and more places each day, if you look beyond what you already know. Places where tools are available for you to heal and grow and to help the planet rejuvenate whilst you do so. . . it is funny but the simple little things that you do each day to help save mother earth from your own chunky footprint also makes you feel better too.
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In my own block of units I see it all the time. All the conveniences that have been set up to make it so easy for people to recycle are often totally ignored.
It is certainly time again for more training and education in recycling because all the efforts made some years back seem to have gone into recline.
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Yes, work. It's not hard. But can be rewarding.
Sorry Lilla, I'm just blown away by some negativity at the moment.
My mother always taught me to smile at people you walk past on the street and always say hello to people who live in your street.
And always give to charity.
Let me ask you this. This "recessionista" movement that has recently taken off, what do you make of it?
All of a sudden it is chic to buy a lamp from Vinnies because it will be a one of a kind. While it might help Vinnies in the short term, do you think the motivation is a little skewed?
A woman who volunteers at our local Vinnies store told me that while she happily accepts donations to the store, what really helps is that people shop there.
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I'm over being nice to people. Well okay, I was never that nice to people in the first place.
No. Ed's gone too far now. I don't suck cock. lol. hehe. pmsl. rofl and wtf? That picture of me on his post is not a true representation of my sexuality. I only ever sucked a man's cock once. And he was in a wheelchair. It was corpoal act of mercy.
I mean, who gave Ed permission to use my pic? (Can you see how upset I am about it? Not. As I I give a flying fuck). I mean Orble Admin are hopeless. One year you can't even mention someone's name on a post. The next year you can use pics from their sites and add cocksucking graphics to them?
But Orble will never delete someone's blog who earns money for them. Or even brand their posts mature content. They'll only delete my blogs because I refuse to join Google AdSense???
I guess at the end of the day, Orble has been so boring lately, I'm almost glad Ed is attacking me. At least there's something to write about.
But anyway. I'm in Melbourne. My possessions are scattered from arsehole to breakfast all over Australia. But Teresa gives great head, and loves sex, so there's not a lot to complain about from a male perspective. All of us hetero males pray and hope every day we'll hook up with a nympho. I just hope my cock doesn't fall off from overuse. It's nice to use it for something else other than taking a piss. But you always have to tell women to be a bit more brutal. It's not a lollipop. "Sink the teeth in, woman!"
I don't think I'll move back to Qld after all. There's beer on tap there, but no sex on tap. There's quite a distinction between the two.
I honestly joined Orble to write. I guess we can chuck that idea out the window now. I don't even have time to write anymore. I'm too busy being raped.
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As you say they are inspiring . . and I am glad you got some pleasure form it.
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The best thing for you to do would be to collect them all up over time and then hold a giant garage sale, or take them to your local trash and treasure market where you can sell them all for a few dollars each. I did it once and apart from making a couple hundred dollars, I am sure I taught a few people a valid lesson *chuckle* *hey! That*s my toaster, I am sure it is . etc., *lol* Finders keepers.
I used to live in this small country town in SE NSW wher there was this local unmanned tip. This old bloke form the village would rumage around up there every saturday, dragging his booty home and then taking it to town a week later to the trash and treasure markets there in Canberra. Over the period of one year, he refurbished his house and funded a seven week trip to Europe to visit the *old Country." Goes without saying that I admired him for making something of his retirement.
Don*t get mad, get even, I say.
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Welcome.
Surely things that make life worth living, agreed.
Sir Bob did a lot no doubts, but there was a seedy, ruthless side to him with regards to Lily Rose, Pam and Michael, that I never could quite warm too, but that*s just me. However, I do not begrudge his celebrity because he worked so hard to achieve it, and I respect hard work over laziness any day . . and that he tried to use it to help those less fortunate, at least in the medias eye. I never could trace all the BandAid money raised all the way to the poor?
I like your angle though, on the power of one being the strongest force in the universe. No doubts about that.
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Ooh agreed mon cher, especially on orble lately. . . and as for work, I shirk the shirkers avidly as their apathy is as contagious as leprosy to me. Agreed. Shame more people don*t understand the rewards.
As for smiling at people you meet, well as long as it is not blokes, so many think a smile means youput out these days that it just flips my lid!
Charity begins in the home for me and naturally flows from there, agreed.
Bear with my ignorance a minute as I will have to google the Recessionista movement. Bloody journalists want to reinvent everything and give *Nothing New* a revamp everytime (like they thought of it, just because they invented a new name for it), but as time is a bit short today, I must assume you are referring to the *Shabby Chic* movement of the 90s. I love it and I am always, sanding, varnishing, modifying old furniture to suit new alcoves and corners of my home.
I found a dark green marble cheese board and knife set in the Salvos shop the other day that is absolutely beautiful. It costs me $5. I have seen them new in HOUSE for $35.95. That is thirty dollars, two trees, five tonnes of coal and about 200litres of water saved; not to mention the poor person*s third world village which is slowly being destroyed from the sludge and slurry of the toxic open cut marble mines close by.
We obviously still walk the same track Mrs M. Nice to know
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Glad it bought some colour and positive energy to your day.
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Good to see you again,
I haven*t got time to read this one today, but I am aware of what you are talking about. Not surprising as we get ready for the polarities of the planet to shift from North to South and visa versa. . . not everyday we move through the Galactic centre of the universe, and while carbon dioxide has adverse and positive effects,(some now claiming it is actually helping avoid an otherwise imminent ice age), I agree, it may all be immaterial as the universe finally does step in with its own bigger picture than our little self created, man made neurosis of global warming.
I am seriously looking forward to reading this article later, thanks for taking the time to add the link.
I hope the campaign is making headway
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This one really burns me up, as if such wasters would ever reuse those plugs on other appliances! I see it as a kind of mental sickness.
As I said above to a Janet and Mrs M, finding the Shabby Chic in life is one of the greatest of my joys, too, especially when miracles create matches like they were ordered as a pair/set *chuckle* So much so that it has become a game, in that i put the order out to the universe and wait to see how long before *exactly* what I need is there waiting for me for a fraction of what others are paying, if only I can wait a little while.
So sad for those who *HAVE TO HAVE IT NOW!!! (reminds me of that spoilt brat in Willy Wonkas Chocolate Factory).
Today it was a shop used demonstration, top of line, sewing maching. It was reduced from $799 to just $200. That only took two weeks to arrive since my older (treadmill version) finally gave up the ghost. I arrived in the store apparently, only ten minutes after the assistant had put them out. There were two of them and the other was already being purchased.
To say that I am feeling a little overjoyed atm, is perhaps an understatement.. . *chuckle* now all I need is a fast degree to operate it as it has *auto everything!*
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Firstly, I have to say how appalled I am by that image being allowed to remain on orble, regardless of what anyone has done, and especially when you have done less and had your post removed! I will be writing to the orble gods about it, make no mistake, as I am terribly offended by such smut and thought more of orble than to lower itself to such levels of acceptance and games of petty *favourites,* no matter whose face such a perverted insult is shoved in? I seem to remember a heterosexual picture like this disappearing pretty quickly . . whilst I could do without both on orble and think it belongs somewhere else, I think this wreaks of injustice!
You have had your days and tossed your verbal salty sally*s . . and it is how we all know you, but ironically I also know it is precisely you who could turn things back to literature, if you wanted to? However, the impetus is in your court, no one elses. There are many good souls on orble worth the effort and perhaps it is silly to focus on the few negative ones who make everything personal and offensive. Time will deal with them in their own way, and all should be allowed to breathe, grow and raise their consciousness. I always felt example was better than mudslinging . .
Again, I am appalled that after logging on to find a phallus in a jar and in your face (agreed : plagerism in the first degree as well as character defamation . . and would well warrant the lawyers investigating). I understand your angst fully. It is not as if you are the only religious fundamentalist here on orble.
I was unaware of that and am left to wonder why not?
That is good news and i am glad you found what you were looking for, at last. Perhaps as your mood levels out, you may be inspired to write once more? I certainly miss the days of your wonderful writing and inspiration they created, bringing forth, as it did, so many real writers from the woodwork of orble obscurity, inspiring many to reach further with their efforts than they had before.
Nowadays I am not sure. There is so much hatred, one/up/manship and karma greed in this place sometimes as to make it impossible to even ask a simple question that is out of the mainstream. Like all commerical ventures it is about the fast buck, the quick quip the catchy headline. . the pushing of agendas, etc. A venting machine for all the bile that real society has no time for. Its like the old blokes say; Everyone wants to be a hero, but nobody wants to do the work. But I wont bore you with what you already understand so well.
On a positive note, the interaction and meeting of people like you and a few others in both the virtual and real worlds reamins a marvellous and very rewarding experience . . and certainly sounds like it has certainly served you well too. Congratulations. Orble as a dating agency is an interesting take on things?
hahahaha as for Queensland, I have to agree they are mostly rednecks and not worth being here unless you like XXXX, however, a little Carlton Draught may well be on the cards for me too, later this year . . and I may c u then
Be well whatever you end up doing and look after it!
I*ll read you around . .
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Good on you! It really is so easy, as you say and it really does make you feel better too. I am always reminded of that adage about one man*s trash being another*s treasure, because it really is so true. Just because we deem something to have served its purpose, or not ever to have been suitable for its purpose in the first place, (urgh! that terrible vase aunt May gave you three Christmases ago *chuckle* ) . . is no reason to dismiss the fact that it may be just what the doctor ordered for someone else, who like me, is probably just looking for just such a thing to appear to match something?
If you read my response to Cibb above, you*ll see that that is exactly what just happened today and I am really over the moon still about my new treasure. If I had gone out and bought a new one for $799, I would NEVER had got such joy out of it. Now it will be treasured even more and it has been my observation that things loved in this way, DO last longer, no doubts about it. Its why I love Factory seconds outlets where things are reduced by hundreds of dollars because of asilly scratch. .
I could go on about the wonders of this kind of thinking, but it is clear, I would be preaching to the converted
Glad the mandalas added some shine to your day!
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I am a massive advocate for recycling and just wish that the government set up a corporate recycling department that could get large places recycling. Where I work it is a large entertainment venue that just cleans by putting everything into garabage bags and these high end companies ruin everything that a single person does fom home. It's BAD.
My parents used to be so green they a a toilet called an Ecotoilet that was basically a mini drop toilet in their house. It never once smelt but you could see pooh and toilet paper. It contained dung beetles that were basically microscopic and broke down the pooh into a valuable fertiliser and the urine formed urea crystals that were claimed to be the best fertiliser in the world. It was amazing but no one would buy their home until they replaced the toilets.
And OMG people - don't buy anything until you visit Vinnies - just got a rollaway bed for $25- and that sure as hell beats the costs of over $100- from Target.
I so agree with your words on the vilification of David.
I have already posted my concerns on the writers forum here:
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Eleven hours passed and I am still waiting for it to be approved for publication. I think that must be a new record.
I don't think Orble management get it. Vulgar vilification and hate material is their responsibility to moderate. Playing favorites just shows premeditated discrimination, consent and possibly collusion.
I am waiting to see how they will respond. But I get the distinct impression they are either too inexperienced to know better or just do not care about those who are providing the material that pays their wages.
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I really like your ideas of corporate recycling, you should look into it further. I was just reading about some fellow who revolutionised the way we recycle cans and is now a millionaire. Of course, he never did it for the money, which I have observed is always a good indication of a successful outcome.
This sucks. Agreed. I*m thinking that its simply a matter of making a few phone calls and co~ordinating the event with the recyclers. You could look into it, talk to Peter Garret. *Slapping my forehead* Peter Garrett ~ now there*s a joke. I have written so often to this layabout that it isn*t funny. But his general uselessness aside, I agree it is the government who should impose fines on these companies who run the events without cleaning up in a responsible recycling kind of way. Too true. Although so much of our recycled stuff still goes overseas to thrid world countries where they choke on it that it makes me wonder where the buck should stop?
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Hey, congrats on the bed, it sounds GREAT! I made mine from slats of second hand wood I found at a recyclers which I screwed together on a simple frame. I bought a nice squidgy fouton matress to plonk onto it, best bed I have ever had, but yours sounds dreamy too and so nice to rest easy with the extra bucks left in your pocket. Well done!
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Thanks for letting me know. I have now posted my comment and a copy of the letter I wrote to the Orble gods about it.
Good on you for posting, I see that it was finally cleared. Good on Orble for being big enough to do so, too. Let*s hope it sets the right precedence for future gladiators to understand the rules properly.
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Glad you enjoyed it. If you click the link on the bottom of the post, you*ll find many more amazing images to enjoy too.
Enjoy!
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Thank you for the lovely compliment.
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Agreed. Right on!
I think we forget that it only takes a few small things a day to make us feel so much better.
Lilla . .
I am honoured to meet so many people who also care enough to use small things to make such a difference. It is wonderful feedback.
Thank you all.
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Secondly, I think people should try to change the world - but they do that by changing their small corner of the world. If you've cheered someone up who was down, you've changed the world in some small way. And I think we need to be faithful to do what we can do in our small corner of the world, without getting anxious or worried about all the problems that we can't do anything about.
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Well said, I couldn*t agree more.
I work on a one on one basis to counsel people and know this addage so well, I could say it backwards with my eyes closed
But you know the rest already. Persistance and faith, that*s about all we have to foster hope and then there are those days when it all comes back in avalanches of joy and abundance and you suddenly see what difference you really did make in people*s lives.
Keep up the good work fellow traveller, thanks for stopping by.
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Hahaha, as I said you must feel slightly *Green* right now (me too, it seems as responses to my brilliance are so slow to arrive, as part of the fan club decide which basket to send me to hell in?) *grimace* I must have fried a few brain cells perhaps with my honesty ray?
It is hard to answer your question, as it is sealed tighter than the seventh seal at this stage, as my brother in law would say, dust proof like all good tupperware. Its grand opening will certainly be a revelation.
My guess?
As good as any, as to who wasn*t into conservation during childhood, poor thing. Not so different it seems from any of us then, so why hide and why not activate the Administer comments switch? Truly a shame, but then we all do (hide) at some stage, its just that you and me my dear, are old farts who know better.
Thanks for the back up on the E*scale, nasty when that blight gets into your peach trees.
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it is an old saying that little drops fill a pail....so definitely small things hep in getting big things done....our becoming concious about the environment is the first step....the next is to live a life that revolves around that conciousness.
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How beautifully worded, thank you.
Living that consciousness takes time too, just like waiting for all those drops to fill the pail, I agree. . . Luckily, patience is its own reward.
Thank you for stopping by, I will answer your PM soon, I am pushed for time right now, but wanted to let you know I had recieved both, again thank you.
Lilla . .