12 MONTHS ON.....

It is one week off the 12 month anniversay of the start of this blog.  It was set up by my son Reece who lives in Germany so that he could follow my adventures here on the land.  I decided to write this without reference to any other person, so for this short time - I joined the ME generation.  That's right - it is all about me and the growth which has occurred here at EdgeOfHeaven as nature took its course.

Statistics show that readers came from the United States, Malaysia, Peru, Russia, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, India, Austria, the Netherlands, Estonia and this week Montenegro. One reader I did not have is my husband Bill, without whom my adventure here on the land would not have been possible.  Although his heart (and half of every week) is in the city with creature comforts like the cinema, theatre, restaurants and manicured golf courses, he has enabled my dream to evolve here on my "Edge of Heaven".  So thank you Bill and I hope you enjoy my adventure when you read it.

I think it is appropriate to finish the year with quotes which mean something to me and encourage me to live this life.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― Mark Twain

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― Mother Teresa

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

The Voice

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.”
― Shel Silverstein

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

And the last one is for you Bill

“Without You"

"Not nothing
without you
but not the same.
Not nothing
without you
but perhaps less.
Not nothing
but less
and less.
Perhaps not nothing
without you
but not much more.”
― Erich Fried