The world is one

This winter period is a festive season. As the world decreases in size (metaphorically, due to transport and communication abilities), we all are uniting. No-one should be discounted! Different people celebrate differently. It is a festive time, but not everyone is religious, let alone a believer of an identical religion.

The greatest thing is that we are all different! Everyone brings something individual to the table!

Three of the largest religions’ celebrations…

Hanukkah 

Ramadan

Christmas 

This third of a year contains many religious celebrations…

The other 9 months can be found through this link

https://www.newham.gov.uk/downloads/file/6877/faith-calendar-2024

(thank you Newham CC)

The entire world is one. Why do we sit back and let this happen to ourselves?

We must help

Please do what you can

https://help.rescue-uk.org

Ahem!...

 

Three golf clubs go into a pub

The first, a putter goes up to bar and orders a pint. 

The second, a pitching wedge, follows, and orders another pint.

The third goes up, and ‘just a water for me, sorry I can’t, I’m the driver’

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBRxHE-qlbQ/?igsh=MjhrOGN5NTB5OXht

‘That’s not how a queue works’ 

Hehehe. 

I had just entered a coffee shop, a few weeks ago, and joined the back of a long queue, to get my espresso, post physio session.

Then, all of a sudden a rather large lady walked into the shop and stood in front of me and my wheelchair!

‘Ahem, that’s not how a queue works, sorry!?’ I alert her.

She rotates and just stares at me with a puzzled snarl.

Fortunately another customer had also joined the queue, remained behind, and managed to gently explain just how wrong she had been.

I regained my place, all was ok, but I also realised that this was ‘just a regular occurrence’ in my previous life. It is only in a wheelchair, when you can’t nudge forward, or ’slip past someone’. I recognise now how EVERYONE for the past 18 years has acted kindly to me.

Should I welcome being relegated (therefore I was just as normal as everyone else).

BUT NO, I WANTED A COFFEE!

My life could’ve been so ‘regular’. I would have been bored. I would have been in a lovely marriage, possibly with children, working full-time. Life could have been so ‘regular’.

I am different.

I am alone.

I love my independence! Most of the time but not all of the time. I am disabled so ‘different’. I am alone. Only I know myself.

I type this whilst sat near a couple and two parents, in a coffee shop on a Sunday.

So many lives seem ‘happy and complete’. 

Everything is relative, and humans ALWAYS want more.

Desire to improve is what drives us all to progress

I have always been very independently tackling all sorts of problems that life throws at us. Therefore self-belief is my broad safety net!

I type just three days later, having been in same coffee shop, but accompanied by an amazing new friend. I welcome a vastly improved mood compared with earlier words I have typed! 

Oh, I don't know!

Up, down.

Flip a coin. In order to get heads, you have to recognise that tails is just as possible (and vice versa, obviously). As with everything within our cognitive powers, there is always another alternative. Find it, understand its possibilities. It may be worse, it may be better. It will always exist, in parallel with the original. There is always an alternative.

@case.kenny - instagram

My current music choice now

Deep house music, or Jazz,

Deephouselounge.com 

Truthfully, the above link, offers just a sample of music genre. I am regularly switched on to various Deep House Music played through my hi-fi (better sound quality than listening to a computer). Latest addition to my Deep House collection - 

Homero Espinosa - Deep House Amsterdam 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD0KC7EYNnY

Latest album bought…

Miles Davis - Bag’s Groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp9imdBhVCg

Up/Down...Down/Up

Up/Down…Down/Up

For every up there is a down. For every down there is an up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c5y0l0v6y2do Muriel Furrer

Tragic news reached me last Friday, of the death of promising young Swiss rider, Muriel Furrer at the World Championships in Zurich. Cycling is such a troubled sport. The greatest sport will always have the greatest difficulties.

A cyclist strives to perform at their individual optimum.

Laying in hospital forces independent thought.

I was then entrenched in a rehabilitation life where independence was the ultimate goal. 

I achieved the ability to live alone.

I am alone, forever.

Much as I want to be in a strong relationship with a partner, I think it may be impossible.

‘Oh, what do you do? Where do you work?’

‘My job is living life.’

I use this blog as a route back to the real world, knowing that people anywhere can read my words!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o

Momentous. (the link above, explains Britain closing it's final coal power plant).

Unfortunately for many portions of this country, this halt in such industry will hurt greatly. The step can be viewed so importantly though. Positively, this is such a vital step forward. The whole Globe is feeling the effects of our fossil fuelled damage to our climate. If the UK can be a leading country in renewable energy production, it can only be a good thing.

Is the monk going bald?

(I love any excuse to include a photo of my coffees)!

So many coffee shops ask customers whether they want chocolate on top of their cappuccino. I am me, and I always feel like interrupting and asking ‘well, is the monk going bald?’

Although perhaps the most popular coffee drink, very, very few people know the backgrounds of the name.

When you add ‘ino’ on the end of any Italian noun, it basically tells you that it is a small version of the initial part. The ‘Cappuco’ part tells us that it is a monk. So ‘a little monk’. It is when you look down on top (of either), you understand. The sprinkled chocolate symbolises the monk’s balding scalp. The surrounding frothy milk represents the monk’s hair. The outer, slim ring of coffee represents the monk’s cloak, or ‘habit’.

:) SO THERE!

‘The Capuchin Franciscans are a Roman Catholic order of brothers shaped by this heritage. Building on this Franciscan tradition, the Capuchins were founded in 1528 and emphasized prayer and contemplation, preaching, and physical care of the needy. Today, many of our brothers continue this preaching tradition.’

Merckx on Pogacar

The greatest on the (new) greatest...

Some almighty due praise for Tadej Pogacar... BRAVO TADEJ!!