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Dear
Reader
Apologies
for no November newsletter. Life sometimes gets in the road of the
plans you make, so it's best to let it go with good grace and move
on. You're about to see why! In October I had 10 days off,
and flew to New Zealand. Gosh what a gorgeous country. I
visited the South Island: Lyttelton and then Queenstown where I was
speaking at a conference.
Here's
the highlights:
-
Punting
on the Avon River (Christchurch) and seeing baby ducklings on the water
for the first time
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Visiting
the Arctic Centre and getting to pat a penguin!! Their fur is
gorgeous and soft and their flippers really hard and scaly like a fish!
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Taking
a wildlife cruise and seeing the beautiful Hector dolphins up close, and
penguins out at sea
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Visiting
a horse stud and playing country-style games and enjoying a delicious
BBQ (indoors folks, it was after all, close to freezing!)
-
roping the steel cow
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archery
-
slingshot
-
warble whistle competition
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Going
on a wine trail tour (ooh yum!)
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Taking
the Gondola up to the peak above Queenstown
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Speaking
at the conference
and
last but definitely not least -
wait
for it.... drum roll....
HANG
GLIDING!!!! Yeaaa! I loved it, and I wasn't
scared, well except for the one time when we went side on, that gave my
heart a bit of a lurch, and no one told me you can get motion sickness
on a hang glider! Well, they told me when I was on the little
shuttle bus heading up to Coronet Peak, but by then I was committed.
I
got back late October, and hit the ground running with my wonderful
clients, and never gave the newsletter another thought, except to say,
"oh well, it's too late now."
This
Christmas, I am going to avoid the wrath of my cat Master and stay
home! I will be closed from the 23rd December until 5th January,
but still available on the mobile.
I
wish you all a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, or a wonderful break
over the festive season, so that you are refreshed, rejuvenated,
regenerated and reinvigorated!
Until
next month, Live
Life 2 The Max! Narelle
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The
Beauty of Love
©
Narelle Stratford 2008
Okay,
it's Christmas time, and of course, that's when we remember all those loved ones who aren't with us, for so many
reasons:
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perhaps
someone you love has passed over and you remember them fondly.
-
someone
is in another town, or city or state or country
-
your
relationship has finished and you are no longer together, yet you
remember that person.
Our
memories are often tinged with sadness, or grief or loss, or even anger
or resentment, depending on our particular circumstances. But it
doesn't have to be that way does it?
I
recently heard a beautiful story of a woman who's husband passed away
while holding her hand. As he died she felt an incredible surge of
love and joy enter her heart, and felt that he had come into her heart
to let her know that he was okay. The rest of his family were
grief-stricken, yet she felt this amazing joy inside her, and left the
room to be able to experience fully, what had happened. She
somehow just knew that he was safe, at peace and home and that she did
not have to grieve his loss.
You
know don't you, that your loved ones don't want you crying buckets of
tears over them, because that doesn't help them or you? Isn't it
better to remember those who've been in our life with love and laughter
so that they are free to move on, and so are we?
The
beauty of love can help all of us get through Christmas. We can
choose to feel free to do what we need and want to do. We can
choose to say, "you're invited and if you come that's great and if
you don't, that's great too".
We
can choose to give the gifts of time and love instead of expensive cards
and wrapping. Don't know what to say on a note if you write your
own? Write these three little words that have such a big impact: I
LOVE YOU! and say what you love or admire or respect about that
person. If love isn't the right word, then use like, or
appreciate, or respect, or value instead. You know the person
better than a card manufacturer, tell them what good you see in them and
let him or her know they are appreciated.
Then,
imagine that you love yourself fully, that you are bathed in radiant
love and pure white light, and you are a beacon of love and light!
Radiate that love and light out to every person as you think of him or
her, alive or passed over, or through your life, and touch their souls
with love. Bring peace and harmony to the world through you, and
radiate it out to all around you.
I
send you my love now, may you feel serene, safe, peaceful and blessed, now and
forever more.
Narelle
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