It’s. oh. so quiet
it’a oh. so still
you’re all alone
and so peaceful until…

zing boom
the sky up above
zing boom
is caving in
wow bam

Bjork

Kesa posted about storms below, often there is quite before a storm. It’s a bit quite in the flower garden here at Go! Smell the Flowers at the moment. So sit back enjoy the song below and enjoy the peace whilst it lasts. Because soon … very soon ….

We get our naked twister mat out

&

Our Flower Smeller film will hit the site. Get your dancing shoes ready! And if you’ve received a Flowers Smeller Award then look out, you could be featured in the film!

Shhh … enough excitement, GO! make yourself an alternative drink and tell us what you like to do when you find a bit of peace and quite in your day.

200mm = 20cm = 10 inches of rain in less than two hours, 11 million litres of water in the City tunnel, 200,000+ homes without power, hail stones the size of Cricket Balls, 6,000 homes totally beyond repair, thousands evacuated, hundreds rescued, 25 schools closed many needing to be partly rebuilt.

And that’s only the small statistics.

No its not the latest Disaster movie!

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Welcome to Queensland.

Natural Disaster Zone!

3000 Lightening strikes in 2 hours. Who needs Special Effects when nature provides a show like this.

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HELLO! from sunny Southern California.  “Okay, one down nine more to go.  Oh, what am I doing?”  Well, today (November 21st) is World Hello Day and the main objective is to greet at least 10 people today.  In person, is best, but you can be creative.  This 36^th Annual World Hello Day has 180 nations participating to emphasize the importance of personal communication for preserving or establishing peace. 

World Hello Day begun as a response to the conflict between Egypt and Israel in the Fall of 1973.  Brian McCormack, a Ph.D. graduate of Arizona State University, and Michael McCormack, a graduate of Harvard University, worked together to promote this annual global event.  

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Top of the Pops:

For 42 years it ruled the British music scene with over 2000 episodes and a peak audience of 15 million.

In 2006 it was axed by the BBC.

Now after lobbying from the music industry it is rumoured to be returning in 2009.

Mark Cooper, head of music at the BBC, said he “would personally love to have a weekly music show on the BBC. It’s a Sleeping Beauty. One day it will come back, in the way that Top Gear and Doctor Who came back.”

Above: Nirvana TOTP performance where Kurt Cobain sings like Morrissey and grasps hold of his mic with both hands during his guitar intro.

The move has come after the lack of slots on British TV for music, especially with Jonathan Ross’s Friday show being pulled after Sachs Gate.

So what other television shows would you like to see return to our screens? Camberwick Green anybody?

Well G’Day Flower Smellers, today has been one of interesting  and contrary moments, from everything being wonderful and going along just swimmingly thank you, to my visit to the hospital and the emergency surgery undertaken on my hand.

I went Gardening. Normally a relaxing passive past time, to sit and remove weeds or in my case grass, which has intruded into my flowers space, but today was different. After Hubby removed the side fence to our house,  I thought I would make a start on clearing along the fence line all the over grown ferns, grass and Blackberry bush which has taken up residence on the river bank. Nice in theory, not so happy in practice.

Happily I start, I move long the retired fence line to the thick fern area, no blackberry great, hubby had removed that earlier so I grab a handful of fern and Pull, “SCREAM” “Grab Thumb“, run inside calling to my Hubby.

So what had I done?

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Trust ~ verb. to place confidence in : rely on .

Vulnerable ~ adjective.  capable of being physically or emotionally wounded .

Risk ~ verb.  to venture upon; take or run the chance of.

My mental illness (U.S. definitions ~ major depressive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder) has often revealed true friendship and trust. I’ve learned in painful ways that who I thought were my friends really were not. During my first hospitalization in the 1990’s, I lost a friendship of more than 15 years. Unfortunately, my hospitalization coincided with her boyfriend of seven years breaking up with her. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m having a hard time writing anything this week here in Canada. The temperature keeps going up and down and the situation at home is crazy! It’s been a rough one. My daughter has ADHD and she is in the middle of a re-evaluation. So this week, it’s no meds.

Now, what trouble can a 12 year old get in to anyways right? Wrong! I understand my job as a parent is to be patient, But what happens when your patience runs out? I am exhausted from trying to be patient. Everything inside of me holds in the screams and cries.

I can just hear the judging now. But, how can we learn from others when we don’t have anyone listen to us and help?

I was a young when I got pregnant. I was dating my first boyfriend at the time. I decided, yes, we would get married and have the baby because that would be the right thing to do. Little did I know he was abusive and liked to drink A LOT! I stuck it out for me and my daughter because I didn’t want to be done with my marriage at 23. But soon it was beyond safe and I had no choice, I had to leave. We snuck off in the middle of the night to a woman’s shelter.

Now, they are trying to rule out Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome because of the years I stayed. Life is not fair…

(I took this picture at the Calgary Zoo when I went this summer…his screaming really sums up what I am feeling.)

Part Two Later this week.

What do you wish you could do over and change in your life?

Hi from Dubai folks!

Ever felt like we’re over populating this planet of ours (as we approach 6.72 billion) or am I biased being based in one of the fast growing places on earth?

Feel free to squeeze any of your thoughts on population control and reducing the bulge right here! Cheers.

The controversial Israeli film Waltz with Bashir is an animated film about one man’s memories that resurface of his involvement in the Lebabon war in 1982 as part of the Israeli Army.

Surreal and showing that cartoons don’t just have to be for kids, the film treads a semi documentary style and asks hard questions about the massacre of Palestinian civilians.

The film has the tag line:

We may forget the past

But the past won’t forget us

Do you think that’s true? Can we bury bad memories, can we forget? Or do we walk around with time bombs in our heads? The wrong smell, the wrong taste, conversation, place or view and Blam the past surfaces to pull us back?

Some can,

Some cant,

Others wouldn’t know how.

It is strange how for some of us there is an inherent fear of getting hurt, where commonsense kicks in and says; “Watch out that might be dangerous!”

Yet for others that just doesn’t enter their heads at all.

Hubby was like the latter until he fell of a cliff.

Now he still does (what I consider) dumb things, but he does think about it while he is doing them, then realised afterwards he probably shouldn’t have done that but its too late then.

I on the other hand, I tend ere on the side of caution commonsense (or perhaps I am just a scaredy cat) saying “Nope! not doing that” Top of my not to do list Bunjee Jumping

What is the most outrage thing you have ever done?

Have you let hair down and really gone to town in dare devil way?

Can you let yourself loose control and give yourself over to the moment?

Here’s something you might enjoy..

Don’t try this at home kids, but then again why not?

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.