Sharing the good news
Published 9 months, 2 weeks ago in My life.To everyone who enjoys a bit of good news, have a look at www.goodnewsnetwork.org. they had the idea long before I did and they run a professional site with international good news.
I went to the fruit and vegie market this am and bought the most beautiful onions (YES onions!), shining purple skins which delighted the eye as well as the taste buds. Lovely red capsicums and green spring onions, yellow capsicums, golden peaches, red nectarines and a beautiful hot pink Dragon Fruit - my shopping bag contained a rainbow. I am so grateful for the eyes to see this magnificence, the nose to enjoy the aromas, the appetite to appreciate the flavours and the effort of so many people who produced this cornucopia, the planters, the pickers, the packers, the transporters the sellers, the shop assistants. So many people worked hard to produce my rainbow. Aren’t I lucky to have all this - every day!
I realise this may seem like ‘pollyanna’ stuff to all you spohisticates out there, but there is so much to enjoy in the everyday world. Wealth and power might be seductive, but the small daily things of life, truly appreciated, are much more satisfying. Welcome to my world………………………..
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Ah, that a bag of vegetables could give you such a sense of joy about the simple things in life means my expectations for me, is not the box of vegetable themselves, so much as the farm from whence it came.
As usual I tend to look at the process of production, not necessarily the end result, but that can be nice too providing it hasn’t come at too much of a cost to some one else.
Enjoy your pollanna stuff, good news….yes you are lucky to have it all, but I want more than a bag of fresh vegetables to make my day feel complete. We compliment each other.
It is so easy to follow the trend and look on the dark side of everything but while doing so, consider how so many of the world’s people would give their all to have the life we complain about and criticize so much in good old Glen Eira. We can visit the shops and have our needs met without drama - consider the women who cannot leave the house without a chaperone. We flick a switch and the light and the stove goes on, we turn the tap and clean fresh water flows out, consider the women in Darfur and how they cope with nothing but a piece of tin between them, their families and the weather. We walk down the street in safety - consider the women in Kenya, South Africa and the other african nations where there is no safety. When we are ill there is the best medical care in the world regardless of our financial status. Life in Glen Eira looks pretty good to me.
Today’s good news - I got all my jobs done, my garden looks nice and tidy, the dishes are washed and I am now going to watch TV. Small stuff I know, but life is just a parade of small things, isn’t it.
Lovely to see someone appreciating the simple things in life.
Good on you for sharing that with us. I had a similar experience today, except it was my first Quarter Pounder from McDonalds (I’ve just never tried them before). Beautiful!!
… and the weather is just right to be outside. and if u visit the whyte kaffe on glenhuntly rd in their back garden u can enjoy the sun and their good coffeee and tucker. u can’t ask for more. can u?…
Bad news is usually more interesting. And good news is usually spin.
i will tell you some good news you should visit the sunday markets more often i have a farmers market in my neck of the woods and i visit once a month berwick cheese factory farmers market and here you can buy real fruit vegs apple juice and cheese and have sum fun big fella tours
Calistemon, you seem to settle for a lot less than I do in life. I want to experience the need to extend myself beyond my own comfort zone. i would be bored witless with a good book, a cheerful garden, clean dishes.
Besides the Glen Eira Councillors and their Administrator would miss my “Advices” to them on how they could improve the services for those in Glen Eira for whom life isn’t always the best possible.
Like more libraries for the infirmed and frail. More Community buses to run older folk around who can’t make it to the four major activity centres because of the limited choices of services to the forgotten shopping strips, like McKinnon, Murrumbeena, Glen Huntly, Gardenvale.
Not everyone in Glen Eira has the freedom of movement that you obviously enjoy!
Hello marywalsh!
It’s fine to try to make things better, particularly for those who cannot speak for themselves. However, it is important to acknowledge the good in between complaining about the bad. My husband uses a Chinese expression which translates as “stirring up the mud” and cautions me against it. The mud clouds the whole pool, not just the small part which is being stirred. Those moments of appreciation for what is good in our lives give the pool of life time to settle again, and give us a clearer perspective.
I always have another thought as soon as I hit the ’submit’ button. Here’s this one. It is said that the way to break a bad habit is not to break it, but to replace it with a new, more acceptable one ( Tony Buzan, founder of Mensa). Perhaps the way to improve local society is to accentuate the positive, and leave the negative to die from lack of attention.”Where attention goes, energy flows and results show” (Bill Harris, Centerpointe ).
‘All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing’
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish born writer and politician -