Peace within and without...

Well today is a new day, Had a good weekend, slept well (apart from dreams about airplanes called Wogan and an inordinate amount of washing up, and I've changed my underwear, so what more could a man wish for....sorry? didn't quite catch that.

So since I am in such a calm and serene mood, I'm going to tell you about Quaker Meeting yesterday. Now you may be thinking can Blue really have a sprirtual side, with all this low mannered much of a muchness, but he has. Frankly the smut is much better out than in, and I do like to get it out as much as possible (don't I dears?)

We were visited by a group of peace walkers travelling from Dublin to London, and they arrived at our meetinghouse last Friday and spent a few days drying out. They had journeyed up to Northern Island, across to Faslane, Dunblane, and would be travelling via Menwith Hill and all manner of other significant sites that escape me now. They shared their poems with us, and some thrust their beliefs down our throats, but thats Ok cos we have big throats.....

They were a diverse bunch, the American Gandhi, a buddhist monk like person, an ex convict et al. I wondered have they got on travelling together, where the pressures were, who riled who, and whether dissent burst out on the walk.

Peace essentially starts within ourselves and flows out. If we are not at peace with ourselves, we are not going to solve the worlds problem (we probably won't anyway but thats a different sermon) so do me a favour. Be nice to yourself today. Tell yourself you really are quite something, and that Blue thinks you are the bee's knees and enjoy that warm feeling in your stomach.

Blue