Wry Vita

Thought for the Week

"Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no- one else has thought."

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian scientist (1893-1986)

We Have Moved!

Please note our new address with immediate effect is http://marionryan.typepad.com/blog/.

An era ends.  As you've probably noticed from the rather convoluted URL of this blog, for the last couple of years I've been squatting on the Three Wise Women blog account.  Now however the time has come to go back to my own 'Marion Ryan' account where I am also hosting my new blogsite.

I hope you will continue to come and visit me often!

My website can now be found at: www.MarionRyan.com or by clicking HERE

The blog, Wry Vita, can now be found at: http://marionryan.typepad.com/blog/ or by clicking HERE

I don't intend to take down this blog, by the way, as otherwise all links will be broken; however I have copied ALL existing postings to the new location.

Thought for the Week

"We tend to measure life by too one-sided a standard: its length rather than its greatness; we think more of extending life than of filling it."

Founder-President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk (1850-1937)

Thought for the Week

"The one important thing that I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking oneself seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."

Margot Fonteyn - Ballet dancer

Finding Happyness

I must admit that if I'd had a babysitter I'd have left Jake at home but I didn't so he had to come too.

I dashed out tonight to see The Pursuit of Happyness.  It was only showing at our local cinema for one night and I didn't want to miss it.  I didn't realise this was a preview showing and it's not really opening till Friday.  (Am never quite sure why cinemas do this.  It's either opening on Friday or it's not).

I went in pursuit of happiness and found happyness indeed.

It Don't Have to Be Bach!

I was just zipping through Bill Ford's newsletter this morning, very quickly before I started work, honest guv, and I was taken with his passing comment about music.  He says:

"If you haven’t heard the song ‘Hallelujah’ done by Jeff Buckley, then you have
a treat in store. It is almost a life-changing song. Play it at night when the
house is still or late at night on the motorway on your own. It touches me in
parts I didn’t know could be reached."

Now I'm pretty sure I haven't come across this or I guess I would have remembered, but doesn't this sort of comment just make you want to dash off and find it quick?

Lawyers of Attraction

Our small Attractors group re-convened on a bridge line this evening for the first time since before Christmas.  In theory this is a group of six or seven of us who want to explore and discuss the principles of the law of attraction with like-minded others.  In practice, there has been a core group of three with others sliding in and out from week to week.

Tonight we were the core group, meeting to decide whether, and if so how, we want to continue these weekly calls.  There was a feeling amongst us that we had run a little out of steam as a weekly group call, and that we might move to a Google Group and throw the world an invite.

But the energy changed as the call developed...

I'm Gonna Love 2007

Today I am attracting Acceptance that I can't control other people, Courage to continue walking my own path, Spark to be the best coach I can be for my clients, and Wisdom and Laughter to remind me it's not the crap life throws at us that matters but how we choose to perceive it and what we do with it.  One woman's crap is another woman's manure.

And as Mike Dooley's Totally Unique Thought tells me this morning:

This is just your friendly, annual reminder, Mal, that things can change so very, very fast.

Passport up to date? Shot card? Bank deposit slips in your possession at all times?

You're gonna love 2007...

Thought for the Week

"We are all molded and remolded by those who have loved us and, though that love may pass, we remain, none the less, their work. No love, no friendship can ever cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark upon it forever."

Francois Mauriac, French novelist

My Sacred Journey Along the Yellow Brick Road

I am rather chuffed with the wonderful journal Judith has given me for 2007, called The Sacred Journey, a picture of which you will find in my book list, below left.

It's a chunky multi-faceted 'daily journal for your soul' with loads of space for everything from the pragmatic stuff - annual and monthly goal-setting, highlights and insights, mid-year reviews etc, to the more mystic and spiritual - symbolism, spiral spreads and paths of service, which I'm mostly still trying to get my head round.

And it's the symbolism aspect I've been focussing my attention on.