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Category Archives: Happiness
Building Again (Part 1)
As I mentioned in my previous post, and in a few others during the past 12 months, “the last year or so of my life has been strained at times”. Things haven’t been horrible overall – but lurking in the … Continue reading
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Before Black and Blue Man: The Six Visits (Part 3)
Part 1 Part 2 Five more weeks of appointments went by. Wherever possible, I booked each week’s appointment for Friday afternoons as a good way to end the working week. At the time I often walked home across the Sydney … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Gratitude, Happiness, Hope, Inspiration, Life Challenges, Life is Good, Life Strategies, My Story, Resources, Therapy
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International Black and Blue Man (Part 2)
Part 1 My flight crossed the Tasman Sea without incident. A few times I did glance out the window two seats away, but all I saw were clouds. Most of the time, I read and dozed off. * Three relaxing … Continue reading
Posted in Confidence, Gratitude, Happiness, Life Challenges, Life is Good, Travel
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Before Black and Blue Man: The Turning Point (Part 5)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 The last weeks of December 2002 Shortly after I completed The Turning Point, my work manager was in town (he was based interstate). He scheduled one-on-one meetings with myself and my colleagues … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Anger, Gratitude, Happiness, Hope, Inspiration, Life Challenges, Life Strategies, My Story, Pain
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Kindle: Year Two
Kindle Kindle, again Kindle: Year One It’s been almost two years since I made of the most important purchases of my life – my Amazon Kindle Keyboard 3. It’s still going well. Although I do most of my reading on … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Gratitude, Happiness, Life is Good, Life Strategies, Reading
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Poor Man, Rich Man: Bankruptcy – Year Two
Year One 2012 wasn’t one of the worst years of my life, but it certainly wasn’t one of my best. There were good periods and successes, as described in some of my posts throughout that year – but often there … Continue reading
Poor Man, Rich Man: Two Seats (Part 2)
Part 1 The carriage looked very inviting. It was clean and roomy, the mostly blue decor was fresh and relaxing, and it was mostly empty. Thus far, the only people on board were a group of six at the end … Continue reading
Poor Man, Rich Man: Two Seats (Part 1)
Hundreds of years ago during my mid-teens in the 1980s, I began reading the 1968 Herbert D. Kastle novel The Movie Maker. I didn’t get very far into it because it wasn’t really my sort of story, but there was … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Hope, Inspiration, Poor Man Rich Man, Travel
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Poor Man, Rich Man: Bankruptcy – Year One
As regular readers will know, Valentine’s Day is a special day for me because on 14 February 2011 I was officially declared bankrupt. Two years ago! As the recent Valentine’s Day drew near I looked back at the past two … Continue reading
Zen and the art of model-railroading revisited
Zen and the art of model-railroading Last week, for the first time since my last visit in 2010, I went to the annual Sydney Model Railway Exhibition. As before, it was still good fun. Some layouts that I remembered from … Continue reading
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