Spring has well n truly sprung......

The swifts are back well first sighting was on Saturday, just
forgot to mention it :( So the dawn and dusk skies will be filled
with swooping swifts n swallows another month and they will
be appearing in south west Scotland LOL. The temps are now in
low 20s bliss. Anyway got down to Malaga and saw Pablo and
Isabel who was there looking after Nicholas as Alicia was also
having some treatment - seems our first bookings this year aren't
until May, was hoping Easter would bring people over - but
who knows........
Found some fabby yarns and bought lots so am happy back at
my crochet, first Roma's order and then to play with
some metallica type yarn :)

International Women's Day is a day to celebrate the gains
women have made over the years and to bring our attention to
the issues that still face us. Most of all, it's a day to recognise
that we, as women, have made and continue to make a difference.
International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8 March each year.
Activities and celebrations extend over a week, across the state.
The event originated in 1908 when women garment makers in New York
demonstrated to demand better working conditions. They worked in
appalling conditions, earned half of men's wages, died prematurely from
poor health and didn't have the right to vote.

In 1910 an international
conference of women resolved that each year a day should be set aside
to press for women's demands. Since then International Women's Day
(IWD) has been celebrated around the world each year on March 8. From
its inception International Women's Day has stood for equality between
women and men.

March 8th is like a bubble within a bubble. This day is a small, quiet space.
There is hollow sense to the day, which can create something like an energetic
echo. Whatever your intentions are this day will likely come to pass tenfold.
If you plan something that you dread for this day, your dread will be
experienced tenfold. If you think ahead and intentionally set yourselves up
to get the support or to do something you enjoy on this day, you will experience
that the love and tenfold as well. Mindfulness in planning for the 8th will serve
you incredibly well. Anything you intend will be amplified. {Akashic records March}

It is the nature of the mind to make things much more complicated than it
actually is. Since we believe things are complicated we look for complications.
In finding complications it confirms that things are complicated thus creating
a cycle of thinking too much. This cycle of thinking to much causes a ceaseless
and constant chatter within our awareness, in a sense rooting our awareness within
our minds as it is demanding our attention.

Many thing in this world are not as they appear and in many cases backwards
to the natural order of nature. Within our spirits wisdom is to be the master
and the intellect the servant. An easy way to see if your intellect is the master
is if you have a constant internal dialog, internal chatter and can you stop it
at will so you can listen to your wisdom.

Can a muddy pond full of thoughts and internal chatter be still enough to
reflect and see our true nature and be silent enough to hear the voice of
our innate wisdom? One of mans greatest gift"s and yes curse is his mind.
When the mind thinks to much the intellect becomes the master and the
wisdom the servant. When the mind slows down and the internal chatter
quiets the balance is restored and the wisdom becomes the master and the
intellect the servant. Slow down, look around you, smell the roses feel the
warmth of the sun against your skin. Hear the birds sing while you taste life.
Don't think so much take a moment to hear your wisdom.

If you wish to have wisdom then you must learn to stop that chatter within
your minds else how can your wisdom speak to you. Its much like being in
a concert with millions of ppl yelling and trying to hear your friend whisper
next to you. To hear him you must quiet your surroundings it is the same with
your wisdom, you must quiet your mind. Make it like a still pond so the
reflection of reality can be seen.{thinking too much}

This next set of pics and figures was sent to me this morning - very interesting and where is the fresh fruit and veggies in the US diet?????? No wonder they have such lousy health!!!!

Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11 Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07 United States: The Revis family of North Carolina. Food expenditure for one week $341.98 Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09 Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27 Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53 Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo Food expenditure for one week: $31.55 Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03 Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23