Well being (2020)

Total: 7.0

 

Spiritual connection (2020)

 Total: 7.1

Event highlights (2020)

Challenges

• Sydney bushfires 
• Living in a time of COVID (lock-downs)

South Africa

• My time in Plett with the Boting family (including the Robberg hike and boating.)
• The Silo for high tea

Going away

• Deva Premal with Shushann, Aimee, Sharon and Lilo.
• Two visits to Carcoar to be with Tina (Settle in, then with Shushann)
• Blue Mountains weekend with Shushann and Lydia

Hikes

• Centennial Glen with Gavin and Srini
• Hike down to river
• Two canyoning trips, the second with snakes!
• Walks with Lydia and Shushann especially Le Perouse. and Manly Dam.

Outings

• The Van Gogh digital exhibition.

• Two photo meet ups: Manly and Newtown Photo Meet Up.

House

• Creating a cover for my air conditioning unit.

Connect

• Supporting Gavin with his Ted Talk.

Wisdom Trove

• Metaphors for God

Gratitude (2020)

Computer and software

• Evernote redesign with great search
• Did not have Google accounts suspended and Google slides deleted
• Found Jilly great computer. Office Work had.
• External hard drive ok (thanks Martin)

Finances

• $20000 super payout

Lost and found

• Lost phone on Manly Scenic Walk, got back
• Left phone in cinema. "Find my phone" gave me peace. Got it back.
• Thought I’d lost keys, gave to Lydia

More

• Reissued ticket for plane flight, booked in ahead of airport
• Flu vaccine at Jilly - able to get certificate
• Stove working (tripped)
• Car battery: got started at RNP
• Double booked Marion and Liza: solutions
• Mack glucose ok
• Car crash avoided - such luck
• Airpods Gavin

Progress (2020)

 

General

• Smoothies
• Bathroom ceiling
• My room cabinet, and Heather too
• Airconditioning cabinet
• Lydia and Shushann hiking, The Boys hiking

Spiritual

• Gratitude every morning
• Blessings

Blog

• Random link
• Screensaver shows my photos

Wisdom Trove

General

• Sub menu implemented
• Destination realisation
• Contemporary author connect: (see Deepak)
• Custom title: Deepak Chopra (quotes), Deepak Chopra
• Recent topics list: show curator and time since, right aligned
• Related links like tags
• Delete revisions from database. Search replace super fast.

Curator content management

• Implement Buddyforms and learn
• Choose Formiddable Forms and implement
• Forms, Views
• Publish from Admin to Form
• All updaters set to pending approval
• Not curated gets “Curate this author” promo box with link to form
• Curator admin area. Curate. Edit and Update. Guidelines.
• Curator photos in curation list and filter by curator
• Curator Resource Centre
• Login and registration forms
• Different content viewed by logged in users and not logged in

Templates

• Post types and taxonomies
• Author & Book templates with ACF
• Authors & Books migrated
• Essays migrated

Page reviews

• Topic tags with related books
• Widget links, add (quotes) to title
• Search thesaurus
• Spacing of related

Design

• Topic lists, Types of wisdom, Paths to All with navigation item
• Droid Sans Font
• Underline for authors further down
• Take away link underline

New content

• Tanya books
• Authors Me: Benjamin Franklin, Susan Montag, Ambrose Bierce, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Anthony de Mello, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat-Zinn, David Allen, Napoleon Hill, Samuel Johnson, Aldous Huxley
• Uncurated authors (many)
• Books: Awake, Who is in Charge?, Free will, Awake, No more Mr Nice Guy, Not Nice, Approval Addiction, The Disease to Please
• Aimee: Imperfect, Anne Lammot, Anne Lamott, Shakti Gawain, M. Scott Peck, Anaïs Nin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many more
• Topics: Journaling, Skepticism, Finetuning, God is everywhere (WIP), God within all (WIP), Great things take time
• Poems: Mindfulness, Free Will, Friendship, Aimee poems
• Life lessons: Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, Elon Musk (WIP: Shakespeare)
• Summaries: Values, Purpose
• Questions: Decision making, Free Will
• Humerous topics:  11 topics
• Visuals: Approval seeking, Values, Mindfulness, Free Will, Consciousness, Friendship
• Enhanced quotes:  Approval seeking
• Profound truths (50+)
• Non curated authors: 250

Life is a Movie

• Power of myths
• Life is God’s movie, movie of multiple genres, life is God’s work of art etc.

Metaphors for God

• Metaphors for God (quotes)
• Books read: God Reflected, Wearing God, God the What. Google research.

Quote database

• Export all topic quotes

Special connections (2020)

Rat

• Catch rat, feed it, and let it go.

Service

• Bought Jilly computer
•  Help Nic with coaching plans

Message to Srini and Gavin, starting a string of hikes...

• When I was living in London in the depths of winter and feeling a bit depressed, I used to crack open the sun-tan lotion bottle and smell it to give my spirits a lift. Now that I'm living in Australia in the depths of social distancing and feeling a bit depressed, I simply crack out these photos to give my spirits a lift…    I love you guys and miss you. So looking forward to hiking again in the not too distant future.  

Priceless moments (2020)

Hiking

• Swim at Empress Falls with Gavin and Srini - then lose and find keys
• Walk down to Colo River
• Plenty of fun with the boys

Connect

• Friendship with Shushann and her affirmation

Wisdom Trove

• Get Formidable Forms working

Movies

Spiritual moments (2020)

Gratitude

• Gratitude practice every morning.

Love

• Feeling love at the Deva Premal concert in Mullumbimby.

Elevated and renewed

• After blessings at the Blessing Group I go to with Christina, I feel renewed and blissful.

A realisation with Marion

• There is no such things as the absence of God. Ever.

Release

• I feel a great release after saying "I’m so sorry. Please forgive me." I do this after collecting quotes for for "God as merciful judge", part of my "Metaphors for God" collection.

Meditation

• Sitting and Being at my desk.

Affirmation (2020)

Aimee

Book editing

• At end of Aimee's book: "To Graeme, my dearest friend, and soul brother—thank you for always believing in me. Thank you for your tireless advice and final edit of this book. This book would have never happened without you. Thank you for your patience, kindness and trust in me. You are my biggest supporter and without you, I wouldn’t have the courage to write. There is nothing more precious in life then a true friendship. Thank you for giving me the total freedom to be myself. You were heaven-sent and I know we were brought together to turn my dreams into reality. "
• Aimee: I am so glad you enjoyed editing the book because I feel your care and mastery in every sentence.
• Aimee: Dearest G, I have started to read through your final edit. I know it is small changes but they are so wonderful and magnificent. I am also listening to it via audio and the book just flows effortlessly. Thank you so much for your light and incredible editing expertise. I feel embarrassing blessed.
• Anais Nin: What is with you and your final golden touch  I am beaming from ear to ear. It reads beautifully. Like a poem. Just marvellous. Yah! See you Thursday - can't wait!!! xx

Wisdom Trove

• Aimee: "I took weeks to write a couple of paragraphs. Extraordinary what you've achieved." 
• I’m also a curator for Wisdom Trove where I select and share powerful quotes from various books on spirituality and psychology.
• Possibianism:  G, this is HUGE! I love when suddenly what I have been trying to articulate is already a theory of knowledge Possibilism. It is perfectly aligned with the trajectory of the metaphors and wider connection to how we view the world, myths and our own sense of interBeing. And what I also love is that it neither rejects or accepts, both stays open to the infinite possibilities.... that resonates very deeply with my own philosophy for living (and I am sure Walt Whitman is smiling too  ) I feel in my bones that this awakening of consciousness is a resting in not knowing, an okayness with questions..and finding new questions to evoke reflection etc... argh I could go on and over forever. This is big stuff G. So excited to be a part of it.
• G, i am loving these quotes... and the connection to art. they are also quite triggering which is interesting to me. i feel very disconnected from god atm... and they really touch a soft sore point in my soul... I can't really explain it but its almost like reading them makes me happy-sad... like the way a good poem makes you feel, or a rainy day listening to music.

More

• Aimee:  Biggest joy: deep conversations, big ideas and coffee

Others

• Sharon:  You guys are the best 
• Gavin just want you to know that when I’m with you guys I feel so content. I feel lucky to call you friends. 
• Gavin: You’re so patient.
• Gavin & Elna: You’re a great listener
• You don’t look 50: Allesandra, Aimee

Challenges (2020)

• Return ticket to Joberg cancelled
• Nic session to Eckhart group
• Housemate anxieties: few responses, will Heather accept?
• Heather not pay cash
• Lost AirPods
• Session with Xenia re Tina
• Heather leaves
• Covid
• Dividend funds slashed

Non fiction books read (2020)

Evidence for God

• How To Know God Exists (Ray Comfort)
• How Science Reveals God: What Every Thinking Person Must Know (Stephen Martin)
• The Experience of God (David Bentley Hart)

Spiritual narratives

• Rethinking Our Story: Can We Be Christian in the Quantum Era?  (Doug Hammack)

God and Science

• Soul Search, A Scientist Explores the Afterlife (David Darling)

Metaphors for God

• God Reflected: Metaphors for God (Flora A. Keshgegian)
• God the What: What our Metaphors for God Reveal About Our Beliefs in God (Carolyn Jane Bohler)
• Wearing God (Lauren F. Winner)

2020 Highlights

Deva Premal, hikes with Gavin, Srini, Lydia, Shushan, Carcoar twice,  Covid

Priceless moments

• My time in Plett with the Boting family, including the beautiful Robberg hike and beaching and boating.
• Going to The Silo for high tea with Jo, Mum and Mike.
• Deva Premal concert with Shushann, Aimee, Sharon and Lilo.
• Two visits to Carcoar to be with Tina.  First, helping Tina settle in. Then a visit with Shushann where I stayed at a Christian monastery.
• Many amazing hikes with Gavin and Srini, especially Centennial Glen and the hike down to river  and two canyoning trips, the second with snakes!
• Many walks with Lydia and Shushann especially Le Perouse. and Manly Dam.
• Blue Mountains weekend with Lydia and Shushann
• Supporting Gavin with his Ted Talk.
• The Van Gogh digital exhibition.
• Two photo meet ups: Manly  and Newtown Photo Meet Up.
• Creating a cover for my air conditioning unit.

Less happy moments

• Living in a time of COVID,   Sydney bushfires

Great movies

• A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor (Mr Rogers)
• The Translator (French)
• Queen’s Gambit
• Us
• Oliver Sacks
• The Last Dance (Michael Jordan)
• Magnus

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2020 Index of Links

Cape Town

• Fly home 
• The Silo for tea
• Llandadno with Russell 
• Green Belt with Jo  
• Robberg hike
• Plett 

Away

• Carcoar with Tina and Shushann (Nov)
• Helping Tina settle in (Aug)
• Deva Premal  (Feb)

Hiking   (16 hikes)

• Snake Canyon (Nov)
• Victoria Falls in Blue Mountains  (Nov)
• Canyoning at Blackheath (Oct)
• Blue Mountains with Srini (Sep)
• Blue Mountains hike down to river  (Sep)
• Blue Mountains hike near Hanging Rock (Sep)
• Blue Mountains with Srini and Rajesh (Jul)
• Blue Mountains weekend with Lydia and Shushann (Jun)
• Nattai National Park outlook (Jun)
• Newnes hike with Srini and Gavin (Jun)
• Blue Mountains with Srni and Gavin (May)
• Blue Mountains with Srini and Gavin (May)
• Royal National Park with Srini and Gavin (May)
• Centennial Glen, Blue Mountain with Srini and Gavin  (Feb)
• Canyoning in Blue Mountains  (Feb)
• Robberg Hike  (Jan)

Walking  (18 walks)

• Watson's Bay walk with Shushann and Lydia  (Dec)
• Dee Why to Manly with Shushann and Lydia (Nov)
• Zoo to Balmoral walk with Shushann and Lydia (Sep)
• Watson's Bay walk with Shushann and Lydia (Jun)
• Manly Dam with Lydia (Jun)
• Walk Zoo to Balmoral with Lydia (May)
• Manly Scenic Walk with Lydia (May)
• Le Perouse with Shushann and Lydia (May)
• Centennial Park walk with Shushann (May)
• Bradley's Head with Lydia (May)
• Botany Bay with Srini and Gavin (Apr)
• Stroll with Srini and Gavin (Apr)
• Manly Dam with Shushann  (Apr)
• Waverton walk (Mar)
• Meeting up with the boys (Mar)
• Manly Dam with Shushann (Mar)
• North Sydney  (Feb)
• Waverton walk (Jan)

Photography

• Van Gogh digital exhibition (Nov)
• Zoo  (Sep)
• Cockatoo Island (Aug)
• Sydney CBD (Apr)
• Queen Victoria Building (Mar)
• Manly Photo Meet Up  (Mar)
• Newtown Photo Meet Up  (Feb)

Aimee book editing and cover

• Aimee photo shoot  (Nov)
• Aimee book cover (Aug)

Nic help

• Nic help (Feb)

Milestones

• Gavin Ted Talk (Nov)
• My 50th birthday (Sep)
• Srini gets PR (Jan)

Eating out

• Pre New Years Eve with Elna (Dec)
• Xmas at Sushann  (Dec)
• Botanica with Jane and co (Nov)
• Mack and Chris at The Bot  (Nov)
• Dinner at Gavin (May)
• Catch up at Flying Bear (May)
• Elna dinner  (Feb)
• Coogee for lunch (Jan)

Parties

• Xmas at Sushann  (Dec)
• Gavin's Xmas party  (Dec)
• My dinner party with the boys (Nov)
• Nic birthday (Oct)
• Zante Housewarming  (Feb)

Visiting Jilly in Bowral

• Visit Jilly in Bowral (Dec)
• Bowral to visit Jilly (Nov)
• Visit Jilly after lockdown (Oct)
• Bowral to visit Jilly  (Feb)
• Bowral to visit Jilly (Jan)

Balmoral

• Chris at Balmoral (Sep)
• Elna at Balmoral (Sep)
• Balmoral with Chris (Jan)

Get togethers

• Kayak with Chris  (Dec)
• Catching up with Nicola (Jun)
• Lauren bagpipes (Apr)
• Kiribilli with Xenia (Apr)
• Catch up with Xenia (Apr)

Liza and Mack

• Xmas gift and card from Liza (Dec)

Home and home life

• Whiskers (May)
• Living in a time of Covid (Apr)
• Cover for air conditioning (Feb)
• Bathroom ceiling  (Jan)
• Next door going up  (Jan)
• Smokey skies (Jan)

Family

• Jo and the family in 2020

Related

• Spiritual journey (2020)