I've been to the edge and stepped on your toes
Crossed swords and harangued my foes
Jumped for freedom flown
Resting realisation grown

Monday, 27th Feb. 16h00

Christopher Logue: Come To The Edge

Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
and he pushed,
and they flew.

Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

The trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked.

Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads. (This is a modern adaptation of the original quote by Oscar Wilde: "Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more." - Ack I Mac.)

Don't corner something meaner than you.

Most of the stuff people worry about never happens. (Probably based on an original quote attributed to Leo Buscaglia: Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life!

Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.

In the first book of the Bible, Guinness's, God got tired and took the Sabbath off.

Noah's wife was called Joan of Ark.

Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day but a ball of fire by night.

Moses led the Hebrews to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread without any ingredients.

The first commandment was when Eve told Adam to eat the apple.

The seventh commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery.

Moses died before he ever reached Canada.

The greatest miracle in the Bible is when Joshua told his son to stand still and he obeyed him.

Solomon, one of David's sons, had 300 wives and 700 porcupines.

When Mary heard that she was the mother of Jesus she sang the Magna Carta.

Jesus was born because Mary had an immaculate contraption.

He also explained, "Man doth not live by sweat alone."

The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 decibels.

The epistles were the wives of the apostles.

St Paul cavorted to Christianity. He preached holy acrimony which is another name for marriage.

Christians have only one spouse. This is called monotony.

"If you stood on the bottom rail of a bridge, and leant over, and watched the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you would suddenly know everything that there is to be known..."

1] People deny that the innovation is required.
2] People deny that the innovation is effective.
3] People deny that the innovation is important.
4] People deny that the innovation will justify the effort required to adopt it.
5] People accept and adopt the innovation, enjoy its benefits, attribute it to people other than the innovator, and deny the existence of stages 1 to 4.

Inspired by Alexander von Humboldt's 'Three Stages Of Scientific Discovery', as referenced by Bill Bryson in his book, 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything'.

"With a strong heart and a ready mind what have I to fear?" (Chu Yuan, aka Qu Yuan, Chinese politician-turned-poet, c.300BC - China's first great poet and considered the father of Chinese poetry, his death in 278BC is celebrated every year on the Day of Dragon Boat Festival)

Another time another place
recovering amid fears
struggling against tears
mountains I attempt to face

eclectic symptoms of fate
the finest to date
bemoaning the sacred unknown
of pain hopelessly outgrown

superficially medicated rest
at doctor's bequest
calories replaced by miligrams
entwined divan penning spinelessly

tales seen without words
nerves tweaked by doctor's swords
I neither feel pain nor peace
Love nor hate...

...but I still feel life.

Morning dearest friends,

hope you're all fine?
These past three days have been even harder than I could have imagined. Deep in my subconscience, I guessed that Saturday would require help from my deepest reserves, and indeed it was true.

The hospital time, surgery, needles, operation etc, seem to have touched the nerves near my spine, as for some reason I was not 'asleep' but 'felt' the nerve by my broken spinal bone, being 'prodded' it was the most fundamentally disturbing feeling I have ever felt inside my physical body, and one which I cannot forget. That moment felt as if my whole entity was being compromised.
I was assured it would be "virtually painless" as I should have been 'put out' with the injection...but maybe my brain is too alert, too sceptical in fact, because I was awake...unable to move or speak, but awake, sure enough.

Well, I want to say so much, and reply to your beautiful comments, but I'm so weak, and fighting for my future mobility, which is in question, at present.

Nonetheless, I'll come out fighting.
Warm wishes, and love,
lauren6