Time to Smell The Roses

Hi all. Well another month has past and life in Hong Kong continues at a pace of knots. Isn’t life like that. You blink and you miss it, it doesn’t matter how many times we like the lovely sayings of live every moment like it was your last etc. We need too make the conscience decision to stop and look.

Me with some of my very special ladies and friends in my home group at church

I was recently without a fully functioning phone after having dropped it. Yes it was a little frustration but it was also very freeing. Unfortunately it’s so easy to slip back into bad habits when phone is replaced. However, whilst walking through Victoria Park the one morning it was so beautiful I felt like it would be a perfect tome too takes a photo, I couldn’t because of no phone, bit then it reminded me off that lovely film, ‘The secret life of Walter Mitty’ with Ben Stiller. In this movie he eventually tracks down Sean Penn on the Himalayas trying to capture a picture of the rare snow leopard, he eventually doesn’t take the picture and says something to the effect of how it’s nice to just be in the moment without having a photo to remember it. It got me thinking, how often do we think I’ve got to capture this in a photo that we miss the moment totally, we don’t engage in the moment, we miss the essence. Now don’t get me wrong, I like photos and being able to remember and having a keep sake but I also don’t want to miss the special moment and being fully engaged in it.

I haven’t been able to go walking recently as my days of have included torrential rain. I haven’t really minded as I enjoy the rain but it’s still been extremely hot and humid. However I did manage to do two stages one Wednesday, at times I wondered what I was doing as it was so hot, but it is worth it. I took a couple of videos, one to show you the step climb, but when viewing it back it doesn’t look steep but I can assure you that it is. I must admit to looking forward to my hikes/walks. They get me outside and in the countryside, although I enjoy Hong Kong I’m still a country bumpkin at heart.

As you can see it’s quite beautiful, a little like Africa but still so different.

On Sunday I went and watched one of my little cousins perform in her first ever ballet recital. She was the cutest little cat ever. It was wonderful watching all these little tots doing ballet. In true small child fashion you had them doing all the right steps but not necessarily in the right time or order. It was a joy to watch and it was a moment to cherish.

Here is the cutest little cat ever, thanks Christal for the photos.

Well, I’m going to sign of for now I’m about to go on another walk/hike. However to close I will leave you with a quote from Diane Ackerman “Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyeilding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnicales, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.” It took me many valleys and pinnacles with a few humps but at the end of the day life is precious and it is made me appreciate life even more. God bless you all.