Furry nice blanket.
What do you want?
She was drawing a heart on her hand.
I would like to weave, warm, woolly, words, into a blanket to protect and comfort you on a cold dismal day. To do more than please you, like the fleeting pleasure of youthful love. Like those wonderful shooting stars of pleasure that burnt out in our atmosphere.
They look stable and contented.
Happiness is more stable than pleasure. Happiness is where the bubbling mountain streams combined their strengths, flowing together forming the source of a mighty river. Sharing and appreciating all that passes. Happiness is living with love.
Happy and couldn’t care less what you think.
To know pleasures pass and although happiness can stay with us to the end, the end is inevitable. This is not a morbid way to think, it is a fact and when realised, brings joy. Understanding our life is passing, we stop cling to the fleeting pleasures and share happiness and good fortune.
Sharing their joy with “Mustang Sally.
Loving and sharing is the key to the treasures of happiness and the joy locked in life’s treasure chest. Life’s treasures cannot be hoarded in a bank to appreciate. They must be shared to appreciate and be appreciated by everyone, to bring peace and contentment to the world.
I good way to spend the day and you don’t need a lot of money.
Wisdom is knowing as the poet said “Pleasures are like snowflakes on the river one moment white then lost forever”. Letting go and sharing brings happiness.
The closest to snow in Queensland.
Desiring more is disastrous; wanting is the problem child that is conceived of lust. The offspring of wisdom is contentment.
This is not the Swannee River.
Wanting for nothing, ironically, is to have all we need. The struggle for more never brings lasting happiness. Luxuries and status symbols are not necessary. Understanding this promotes love, happiness and contentment. Appreciating what you have, is to be wrapped in a blanket of contentment, protected from the cold, outside world, warm in your inner world with peace of mind. You cannot control the outer world; you can control peace in your own mind.
Keep it all in balance.
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In my view, contentedness is all anyone is looking for Jack; the problem, as I see it, is that they do not realise as much, and instead seek transient rewards. Contentedness needs no satisfying, and is not conditional upon anything; so whatever falls away, contentedness remains. _/\_
You are right, that is, as good as it gets. It is wanting more than we need that brings us problems. _/\_
The jottings and pics speak of happiness in the simplicity of being, contrasted with outer world of pleasures in acquisitions and satisfactions, through continual additions and gratifications, also beset with disappointments through continual losses and diminishing returns….be well and happy, Jack.
I appreciate your comments Rai, _/\_
You summed Happiness up completely in those poetic pearls of Wisdom Jack, you have obviously walked the walk in life,and have found the truth in the basic ingredients of attaining Happiness in this life. Excellent writing and pics mate, those pics look like somewhere in Queensland, the song Mustang Sally brings back memory’s of my time living in Clifton Queensland.
Those musicians were not far from Queensland click on https://pommepal.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/market-day-at-mullumbimby/ for the full story.
Yes I believe I have it made. Good on you mate.
Great post Jack and equally great colorful pictures, now that’s the style of town I could retirein and blend in quite easily, a turn back the clock time to an era when life was fun and well worth enjoying, thanks for sharing this little part of your paradise.
Jude’s bench challenge for next month, Jack! You’re ahead of the game 🙂
While I took the girl on the bench, drawing the heart on her hand. Pauline took a photo of the twin seat on the other side of the shop doorway.
Pauline put it in her post and a link to mine.
I am way ahead of the game because I look at it as all a game._/\_
Wonderful photos, Jack. 🙂 Everyone looks so contented and laid back. Yes, balance is the key, for sure.
Wonderful Jack. Happiness doesn’t need the trappings of all the material possessions so so right.. ‘Appreciating what you have’ is definitely the ‘blanket of contentment’ Jack..
When I think back to all the hours I used to work and the missed hours I had when my children were growing up, I sigh at my own lack of appreciation for what I had.. But I can not chide myself over what has been, but I can be mindful of the present ..
“Sharing and appreciating all that passes.” is the key to my contentment and Happiness, seeing the joys in the small things in life.. The smile, a precious moment with my grandchild.. Looking at the butterflies and saving the caterpillars ( from munching my cabbages ) Yes I do have an ulterior motive as I move them to the nasturtiums to eat their fill 🙂
Loved all of your joyfull photo’s Jack, the town you showed us looks full of characters All enthused with life and happiness..
Wishing you a great week..
Happy Days my friend _/\_ Sue
We some times think back to how we could have acted in the past.
If our children still love us we did well.
My eldest some told me last night I was the best father in the world, but not if I was disobeyed. Then I was the worst. That was a fair comment it was tough love I gave them.
The people in Aussie country towns are more laid-back they have slowed down enough to smell the flowers and hug their neighbour.
Nasturtiums, there must be a bit of caterpillar in me I love those peppery Nasturtium leaves in a salad.
Keep sending your words of loving kindness Sue, they give the psyche of everyone that reads them a lift. _/\_
Thank you Jack. And I had to use some tough love in my time to one of my own.. I was thanked in later years 🙂 _/\_
The wheel with eight spokes turns, Kama in action. The seeds we sow is the way they grow.
The surgeon uses the knife, it is not the deed, it is the intention that makes all the difference.
It would be wonderful if I were telling some unenlightened person these things, as it is all superfluous to your needs.
The only advice I can offer you Tender Hearted Sue Dreamwalker is don’t let the outside play on your inside garden of dreams.
Sleep sound Sue don’t let wicked world disturb you.
Use the knife unemotionally, to lit your hand shake dose no good.
May your garden flourish with nourishment and beauty. _/\_
Thank you kindly Jack…. And I take on board your wisdom about the world and its wicked ways Jack.. 🙂 I am trying to be more detached and let my inner garden flourish 🙂 Bless you my friend _/\_ Sue
I enjoy your pearls of wisdom Jack.
Lovely post Jack!
Was it the warm woolly blanket or the piece of cake? You thought it lovely that is a nice complement. Thanks Cindy. _/\_