Fun 🤩 5 Things

List five things you do for fun.

Dear friend,

I have been absent, for that please accept my apologies and let us move forward in life.

This looks like a fun exercise list five things I do for fun !! !! !! !! !! !! !! – maybe it was a little more difficult than I thought. In my pre less-abled diva days I would have listed 5 and 5 more just for fun. Now I just do things to get through the day.

Oh no you don’t, this is no pity party, this is my brain trying to kickstart its dusty motor a little .

Here we go

I write, it’s therapeutic for me, don’t care if it never gets read I am happy with it. I find my mind whirling and ideas flash, next I am away in a story and calm as can be.
Ray Bradbury: “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens
Reading, a good book can transport you anytime, anyplace, any part of the imagination. A book can be an amazing friend.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
Messing with paint, now I can’t paint in the conventional terms but I love the paint flow and ebb colour mix’s etc so I have fun with paint and canvas.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary: — Pablo Picasso
Craft work, sewing, crochet, knitting, model making and on it goes.
“Crafting is a way to make something out of nothing.” – Anon
Meditation, well this keeps me grounded, sane, helps with pain and really is calming. Not that good at selling an idea but that’s the general idea for me. My only problem if I become to calm of an evening meditating I make sure I am on my bed, I have been known to wake up the following morning. All I can say is I needed that sleep.
Sleep is the best meditation.” – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

So my boring five keep me almost sane and yep definitely 👍🏻 alive

Catch you soon

Kim-Louise

Smile

What is your mission?

Hello my friend

How are you today?

To be asked what is my mission? I am assuming it means my purpose in life, my reason for being, my calling in life.

Well after great thought and a deep soul searching which took an awful long time, I think I have an answer.

So it took me thirty seconds and the answer was there, my mission in life is to make people SMILE

I haven’t been doing a very good job recently as I seem to have lost my way a little but this question was like a push back into line to resume spreading smiles for they travel many miles .

One of my many poems about smiling and smiles, my problem was I listened to those that dislike me and his my work away, but I have since found that some of my poems have been used from nursery schools to abuse centres to help some people and make others smile.

So now I shall continue my mission.

Smile my friend it could be the best thing you could pass to an another person and it gives your face a workout.

Take care till the next time

Kim-Louise

Deep in thought

Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?

Hello my friend,

I do hope you are well?

Now I admit to thinking occasionally about the past because, yes deep intake of breath, I portion blame on myself for allowing a man to act in such a manner toward me, that domestic violence took my mobility away.

Everyone thinks I am bitter towards him. I’m not I am angry at myself for not having the courage to walk away. That is why I look back sometimes at the person I lost Me.

Do I look forward to the future more more?

Not really, I am, if I’m honest a little scared what the future may or may not hold. How much has the past impacted my future it worries me, so I leave the future where it is in the future.

I think I am happiest here, now, focusing on what I have and can do.

Because the past is gone, I

The future is just a dream

What we have is the present, which in all honesty is a true gift 🎁

So I am wasting no more time on regrets or future dreams, I am living for the present

Have a wonderful day/evening

Till next time 🕰️

Kim…

What is Life if not a Challenge.

What are your biggest challenges?

Dear friend,

Happy New Year, this is day one of 2025 and the first year I have decided not to make any resolutions.

There are a few reasons for my decision, number one being they don’t last. I actually feel I have enough challenges ahead of me without putting anymore strain on myself.

I have a list as long as my arm some personal, some things that have to be achieved. But nevertheless all are to me big challenges for someone in my position.

When I share parts of my life it’s never for sympathy or compassion, plus I am aware that there are people far worse off than I am. I guess it all depends on where you live in this world as to how you live your life, what your home is like, running water, shops or not.

I live in the UK, my life has been a whirlwind of destruction, from the age of 12-13 till now at 58. I can remember all the good things but sometimes it’s like looking through a mist to find them. Because of the Domestic Violence I have been through.

1. Now my challenges I face are after being moved and moved by police for safety, I have never allowed myself to settle and call a place home, now the children are grown and left to start there own families , it’s time for me to accept this town and place and make it my home. So now I find myself with a place that has some heart in it but nothing is as it should be. My house is a disaster zone not a home. I have this huge challenge to turn this place into the home I want to live in and be happy with on a budget of £5 and two buttons

2. Second challenge. Due to disability I’m limited to what I can move/lift even knowing if I can stay awake longer than an hour so that’s a challenge in itself. I have to find a way of not battling this but working with it , not blaming my ex but taking back control and pacing myself so that if today is a wipe-out ok no worries here’s hoping tomorrow is better. Make no plans and go with whatever I can cope with. I have had a long time to try and manage this but the GP surgery has been less than helpful, until recently. Now with a fresh approach in my mind I’m changing this challenge from a mountain to climb to a hill to come down. As it feels like I have been stuck on a hilltop alone for so long,battling several things now I am coming down and finding myself own way that’s my challenge

3. My third challenge has been driving me mad for a long time because I have been approaching it wrong, I have been writing for as long as I can remember and I have reams of poems, two manuscripts and a couple of children’s books to put forward to look at publishing. Obviously I have to work on them, this is where I derail my own train, so I have been told. Well I am no longer in a train I am on a huge galleon ship floating on the clouds. No rails for me to come off , no water to drown in. Because the whole thing is magical there are no planes or any type of aircraft to disturb me. So my challenge here is to smoothly sail the now still clouds and finish the edits needed as my procrastination will be dealt with in challenge 2. Making this one a much smaller hill to climb I hope.

There are plenty of challenges in life, money, disability equipment i.e wheelchair, money (oh mentioned that already), mental health, ptsd, money 😁, and on it goes.

But that’s enough for today, tomorrow I start afresh, I do hope you are having a lovely day

Regards

Kim

A Pain in the . . . .

What do you complain about the most?

Dear Readers

How are you all? I’m a little windswept from last week. I didn’t go out much but when I did wow, good job I didn’t use crutches 🩼 I would have been down, and out for the count. Or come to think about it, I like to wear wigs so I can have a different look, now that would have been embarrassing as a large black guinea pig left my head and flew away. Well what else would it look like?

So what do I complain about the most, my head ! Oy you I said head not face

I suffer with Migraines and there is a difference between headache and Migraine I have had a headache every day for over 15 yrs which is fine, ish, because it has been there so long I have been able to dull it down.

But the Migraines are just a complete halt in the game of life for me. This is what I complain about so often.

Yes I moan about disability

Yes I complain about the weather (it’s a British thing)

Yes I complain about 10% of my life but of that 7% is about Migraines.

I have a specific type of migraine called Hemiplegic Migraine, this can mimic a stroke so care has to be taken that paramedics and people you are with are aware of this.

I guess I complain because I can

Does it make things better, well depends really, I feel less stressed by venting, probably not the right way to go but it works for me for now. Most of the time I’m complaining to the stuffed animal on the bed so no harm done…

Put a smile on your face & kind words on your lips,

watch the world change everywhere that you go.

As you walk and talk then smile around

You teach others that smiling is better than wearing a frown

Kim Louise

Have a wonderful week my Unique beings

With Love ❤️ from the Heart

& Joy from soul

Till the next time

Kim Louise

Crazy, curious, come in…

Come up with a crazy business idea.

Dear Reader

I was just thinking 🤔 to myself, wow there are so many crazy schemes businesses and make money quickly ideas how can I top it when I thought !! easy people will pay for literally anything these days , yes ?

So my business is strictly legit ok? It’s called CRaF

CHOSE RENT a FRIEND

Originally it would have been person not friend but that would have have been embarrassing as it read CRAP (oops)

The business is all about mental health and how people are spending so much time alone, conversation is almost a dying art. Now some of the senior managers would have counselling skills for different traumas, but a lot of staff would be friendly happy chatty people who just want to make the world a better place .

They obviously would be trained to the CRaF guidelines and then people would be guided to this service.

Obviously cost is a huge factor in everything, so your friend might meet you in a coffee shop or go to town with you. All expenses are covered for your friend and yourself as in coffee and a cake or even an ice cream. There is no cost to the client .

We are a business like anyone else and we run via donations from large corporations that need to have tax cuts. Any profits split 50% into regrowth 50% into parties, tea dances, choirs, Christmas and as many social events as we can because shutting the door on the world won’t help. But a tea dance might, don’t knock it till you try it. Too many things to list. Just please we don’t allow social media so no phones. Old style cameras only

The aim is to grow homes like this everywhere we can. Within 5yrs the business intends to have 20 houses fully staffed with friends who care. Who can start clients back on the road to socialisation, to overcoming whatever is troubling you. A friend in need we have the friend you need.

This business a new beginning an end to the silence, there will be a lot going on

In this crazy business of mine KLN

Happily hop back in time

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

Dearest Reader

Oh sweet memories of childhood, when the most precious thing in the world to me was a soft lemon and white long eared 🐰 rabbit. This soft toy held my secrets and wishes, my tears and fears and helped me sleep when no one else could .

What was his name?

Why, Rabbit of course.

Strangely he moved wherever I did and continued into my adult life with his silent sage advice and never spilt one secret, still he dried all my tears through all the trauma.

Where is he now ?

Living with me

Well he is no longer lemon and white and as he is the same age as me (57) he looks as battered as I do. But he has his place in my room. Well you can’t let someone go because they are falling apart and that’s just me. I just can’t wash him I think he might evaporate and sponging him makes very little difference . I can assure you he is one cherished childhood friend.

Have a wonderful positive January my dear reader

Kim-Louise

Everything and Nothing

What could you do differently?

Dear reader

How are you today? Well I hope?

This is a very simple answer to todays writing prompt , could I do anything differently, well I could have done everything. There is always a possibility, and I mean everything from going to college to my choice in men and how many children I had. I wonder what the outcome would have been

Then I think. No I couldn’t have done anything differently because I did everything as I thought was right at the time. So I wouldn’t change a thing, life is all about learning and I learnt a lot in my life going the way I have

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”—Dr. Seuss

Conclusion you do what you do because, that is life, a learning curve .

Have fun

I shall write soon

Kim-Louise

Wash, rinse, don’t repeat

Best advise re change

The Best Gift 🎁

What is the greatest gift someone could give you?

Dear Friend

When asked what is the greatest gift someone could give me, I have to answer from a place deep inside of myself I was unaware existed ;

I am not in need of anything thank you.

Material goods I am used to providing for myself, I need nothing and for that I am very lucky. I have sorted needs from wants at it certainly frees your mind.

I have done the, all I want is love and trust and it’s blown up in my face as it is unwrapped ..

If I have to give an answer it would be Time the greatest gift on earth.

There is one drawback with this request no one can add more time to your life but is that what I was asking?

No I am asking for someone to spend some Time with me.

The only issue being I have no special someone to spend that Time with me !

Take care

Kim Louise

College?

What colleges have you attended?

Dear Reader

Please don’t think me ignorant nor completely devoid of intelligence when I tell you the college I attended was the College of Life.

When I left school I had a choice find a job or, oh that was my choice. I didn’t have a parent who would see me through college. So I learnt on my own. Like millions of other people before and after me.

Since the wheelchair became a part of my life I have gained many diplomas, and am entitled to carry many letters after my name. Just to prove to myself I could do it.

So my dear reader the college I had to enrol in at 16 served me well. I shall carry the banner with pride.

This day and age with government funding it is more advisable to attend a regular college .

Just to add I am UK 🇬🇧 based

Take cate

Your Friend

Kim-Louise