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I only feel loved by strangers

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As family and friends.
Try to make amends of frivolous frustrations.
My pen, my scribe.
I fear, I hide.
Feelings of condemnation.

A simply note of gratitude
Was all that it would take.
To make me feel worthy.
To live another day.

Unusual and surprising.
Your comments knock me back.
Why do I exist in someones mind?
It’s only chilling and black.

Is it that you can feel my pain.
From across the seas? Or poor you?
Wrapped in empathy.
Do you just pity disease?

I only feel loved by strangers.
As odd as that does sound
But if not for you.
I’d bury my head deep beneath the ground!

Although I do not know you.
I really must implore.
Your loving kindness surrounds me.
I admit, a feeling I adore.

Unpleasant sensations filling up my head.
Worsened by the night when its time for bed.
A hand of love grasps me.
It holds me close and tight.

Thank you fellow bloggers.
I rest easier tonight.
I don’t know how to say this.
But always know its true.

If not for fellow bloggers.
I know not what I would do.
Many thanks I give you freely.
My arms held wide open to you.

Thank you, fellow bloggers for all of your support and kind heart felt comments, caring is only about being there when someone needs them even if that someones a stranger and a million miles away.

Namaste friends, may all your days be filled with genuine loving kindness and joyous harmony, may your lives be free from enmity of mind and body, may you be free from pain and anguish.

Thank you for your gifts of caring, loving light.

By Stuart Otway-Smith

Very Inspiring Blogger Award!

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Very Inspiring Blogger Award

Inspiring Blogger Award

Inspiring Blogger Award

I was nominated for an award for blogging on March the 30th by the lovely Jodi Ambrose, just thinking of her makes me smile and giggle like a school girl as she is both funny and kind.

It took me until now to understand what it meant to be “NOMINATED” and due to that I’ll explain to the others that I nominate what it means exactly.

Being nominated means you have inspired me and have won the award, as long as you follow the rules below regards receiving it you are free to use the image and post the joy to your blog =)

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for nominating me for this award it amazes and pleases me that someone of your stature and profile would even interact with a simple layman such as I yet alone nominate me for this award.

I feel honoured that I have inspired you in some way to nominate me and wish you all the success you rightly deserve.

RULES:

As for fulfilling my responsibilities regarding the award, I’m delighted to tell you 7 things about myself and pass on the nomination to 7 other bloggers.

7 Things about me:

  1. I am a new blogger that wants to help himself and others heal, to pass the loving light and healing energy to all whom need it, my shoulder is always there for when someone needs it to cry on, anytime, anywhere.
  2. I would give away anything I own if anyone really needed more than I, just ask.
  3. I always think of others before myself, but my mouth often disagrees.
  4. I live with Fibromyalgia and hope to raise awareness, it is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day on the 21st of May.
  5. I love music, politics, the environment, play guitar, and attempt to write poetry, songs and lyrics.
  6. The skeletons in my closet have lodgers.
  7. Save the best till last, I love my wife and kids, and have been making a huge effort to spend more quality time with them all.

7 Bloggers I nominate: (This means you have won the award Wooo Hooo XD)

  1. Angela Carter For her work on conditions and diseases connected with chronic pain.
  2. Risa A caring and compassionate person that helps, researches and much more in the fields of mental health, FM and animal cruelty.
  3. Sending joy For her humanly elegent, charming and thoughtful comments and spiritual blessings of forgiveness.
  4. the ChangeYourLife blog Brilliantly written positive pondering that now form apart of my day.
  5. Stella Marr For her work with rape and prostitution victims.
  6. Maggie Mae writes poems about the innocents, the innocents are you!
  7. AMSDaily inspire me in many ways, there posts are wonderful and insightful.

Thank you again Jodi for sharing a little bit of your heart just by caring, you really are a true Human being and it’s a pleasure to meet your acquaintance, may your life be full of genuine loving kindness and your days be filled with joyous harmony.

OMG! I almost forget, so sorry sis…

The reason I started a blog in the first place was all due to my sister and I thank you sincerely.

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Tag I’m it!

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The last game of Tag I had was a few years ago, it was with the kids outside our house in Winklebury, there was a huge lawn outside and the kids where playing with water guns!

I was tagged by Currie Rose =P lol thanks XD
I thought you would appreciate this so this is for you.

A Red Currie Rose

A Red Currie Rose

RULES:

1. You must post the rules.
2. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you’ve tagged.
3. Tag eleven people and link to them on your post.
4. Let them know you’ve tagged them!

The questions Currie Rose set for me.

  1. What is your favorite childhood memory? Going to Florida and having breakfast in the company of Mickey mouse with my mum dad and sister.
  2. If there is one thing you could change about yourself, what would it be and why? I would like to give my self the ability to finish what I start and be kinder, so that I achieve more and am a nicer person with more consideration.
  3. What is your favorite pastime, besides blogging of course? Playing guitar and listening to music.
  4. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? 46
  5. Do you like where you currently live? Why or why not? Yes it is homely and our landlord is great, new neighbours are a pain in the arse its to small and we are moving in a month or so to a larger property, this means the two kids won’t be sharing rooms any longer, YAY
  6. What is your biggest life goal? To own our own home that is environmentally friendly and self sufficient.
  7. What are 3 things you always carry with you? My heart, my sleeve and a shoulder to cry on.
  8. What is the one place you really want to visit? I really want to go back to Florida for a while, visit Richard Bandler for some NLP and then onto the Venus Project and of course I’d have to go to Disney World.
  9. Do you think the world is going to end in 2012? Only if my friends dog farts!
  10. What is your most embarrassing experience you are willing to share with the world? I once caught my willy in my zipper.
  11. What is your comfort food? Costa Coffee, Large Mocha Flake, Brie and Bacon Baguette, slice of Carrot Cake, OMG I am dribbling nom nom nom…

The eleven people I am tagging are in no particular order of preference, hugs!

  1. Maggie Mae For being the first blogger to follow me, and writing such heart felt poetry, I thank you.
  2. Wartica Thanks for being the first person to like one of my posts and giving me that little kick of confidence.
  3. stellamarr Does great work for rape victims and prostitution survivors.
  4. AMSDaily For providing wonderful positive insights.
  5. Risa Fibromyalgia, animals, mental health, Risa cares and works hard to help others she also lives with FM.
  6. Jodi Ambrose Your genuine, compassionate, humorous, flirtatious and a wonderful author, thanks for the giggles.
  7. 400 Days Till 40 This blogger writes fantastically optimistic and inspirational posts about life and nature.
  8. Photo Botos Wonderfully beautiful and stunning photography of the world around us and everything in it.
  9. The Change Your Life Blog Thanks Stuart for your passionate, inspiring and uplifting posts.
  10. Sending Joy Spirit Healer is a spiritual and loving Human with genuine loving kindness in her heart.
  11. zen and the art of borderline maintenance Last and certainly not least, thank you for your kindness wisdom and support, Hope your site move has Zen, Namaste.
The eleven questions I ask you to answer.
  1. What is your favourite colour?
  2. What do you find relaxing?
  3. Have you heard of Solfeggio Harmonics? and if not would you investigate?
  4. Are you environmentally friendly?
  5. If you could change one thing about your self what would it be? and Why?
  6. Do you think helping others is beneficial to society?
  7. If you could would you stop the use of money?
  8. Do you grow your own food?
  9. Have you got any pets?
  10. Are you living life to it’s fullest?
  11. Do you spread happiness and joy each and every day?

MY RULES

Nothing major, lets keep it simple and use Currie Rose rules above with the addition of.

I would like each of these people to find one post on each of the other persons blogs that interests them, comment, reblog etc…
But most of all say thanks then spread some loving kindness and peace and joy.

Social network right 😉

May all your days be filled with genuine joy and happiness, thank you to all of you for helping me towards my journey of achieving the attitude of gratitude and peace and harmony within.

Namaste, Stuart.

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