Keeping Life Simple, Authentic And Holistic
100 Words on Saturday Week 2 Introduced last Saturday - an invitation, a prompt, a linky. Write exactly a 100 words on the prompt and publish it on your blog - a story, a poem, a mini-essay. The linky will be open right up to next Friday, after which I will have a new prompt and a fresh linky. This Saturday, the prompt is: BE CAREFUL Be Careful "Be careful of the friends you choose You will become like them". "Online friends? Are you crazy?" Voices. Advice. Concern. I … [Read more...]
"How many Facebook friends do you have?" asks José. "Eight hundred and eighty two!" I reply, a tad sheepishly. "You better delete some of them." says José. "Why?" I ask, worried that there's a security risk connected with having so many friends on Facebook. "I just read we can only ever have 150 friends at the most." says José. Of course, he went on to offer me some from his quota - if couples were allowed to have 300 between them!! ;) It was rather difficult explaining to … [Read more...]
How often have you unfriended people on Facebook in the recent past? If you tell me you haven't done that, I'd find it hard to believe. Unless, you were extremely careful about who you friended or re-connected with in the first place. But it seems that friending and unfriending are so much easier on Facebook and Twitter. One press of a button and a friend can vanish into oblivion. Or so it seems, at least. It's never so easy in 'real' life, is it? It's always difficult to accept that some … [Read more...]
Your life matters! I'm sure you know that - but in case you've forgotten, here's a reminder. Last week I got one of the most thoughtful birthday gifts I have ever received. An old friend took the trouble of writing me a long, long letter and sending it to me beautifully presented in a folder. We've know each other for almost a lifetime and she wrote about the many times we had laughed and cried together. She went on to thank me for things that I had said to her and had done for her that she … [Read more...]
