Karise Eden, Our Friend Stars In The Voice Australia

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Many of us seek our 5 minutes in the spotlight, but few get the opportunity. Karise Eden of “The Voice”, is a girl we have known for a while who now has that chance. The Folk Club When we moved to the Central Coast many years ago, my wife, Linda dreamed of being a singer. [...]

Would You Have Tom Cruise Over For Dinner

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Warning: If You Eat Meat, You Won’t Want To Read This! There was a controversial TV ad in Australia where Naomi Watts playing a young girl, receives a phone call telling her she won a dinner with Tom cruise. As it turns out the family was having Roast Lamb for dinner, so she turned down [...]

Vegemite – The Nectar Of The Gods – At Least For Aussies!

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Last year Oprah Winfrey visited Australia and did some shows at the Sydney Opera House. At one of the shows actor Hugh Jackman flew in on a highwire and crashed into a camera stand. He was somewhat injured. Hugh presented Oprah with a vegemite sandwich! She was not totally impressed. Origins Of Vegemite Few foods [...]

I Never Knew I Had So Many Friends

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I turn 60 Yesterday was my 60th birthday, a milestone I guess! I spent the day relaxing, watching the cricket on TV, doing high intensity aerobics in the gym and playing Tennis. Had dinner with the family, altogether a lovely day. What I did spend some considerable time with was replying to all my friends [...]

Gratitude Taken To A Whole New Level

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The film, “Pay It Forward” was a sensation as millions were awed that the idea that helping others has a rippling effect that can change the whole world. There are many examples of helping others gaining world wide attention, such as the Aussie “hug” guy who ended up on the Oprah Winfrey Show in front [...]

Cuba – Does Fidel Castro Tell The Truth?

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I have spent the last few months reading “My life Fidel Castro”, his biography. It is a rather large work with over 720 pages of very small type! We visited Cuba in 2004, spending 8 days with a hire car travelling the country. It was an eye opening experience and gave me a basis to [...]

The Means By Which You Are Performing Different Types Of Meditation

In today’s world, meditation is essential. One thing that people can always acknowledge is that most of us meditate in a way or the other. Various kinds of meditation strategies exist, like for example chakra meditation techniques and many others. However, researchers have usually classified these types of meditation in to two distinct categories; concentrative [...]

Developing Greater Prosperity

Prosperity is a word which is thrown about quite a bit. Do we fully understand what it definitely means to be prosperous? The literal interpretation includes two individual meanings. The first suggests becoming successful. It signifies possessing good luck in one or many of the areas associated with ones own life. Most could possibly think [...]

A Tree Fell On The House

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It happened Tuesday. We were quietly sitting by the fire, getting warm, when we heard a big crack! We looked out the window and witnessed a massive tree limb fall on the house we were staying in, wrecking the gutter and hitting the roof with a thud. Fortunately the roof stayed intact, and we were [...]

We Manifest A New Car

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Some of you may have read my article on manifestation. It is one of the chapters of “Life Mastery – how to achieve it” available as a free download from this site, and was included in another compilation of articles on manifesting in the real world. The ideas I present on this subject emanate from [...]