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Heartprints I remember seeing a quote saying we need to leave heartprints, as well as footprints. I loved that quote. I imagined little heartprints with people's initials on, being left all over. Everywhere! Bright heartprints, the colours of Skittles and pastel heartprints, like the Sweetheart sweets. What a lovely place we'd live in! All bright and sweet smelling! Not only that, folk would be happier and walk around with smiles on their faces! When I think of my own heartprints, mine are a variety of purples, ranging from lilac to deep purple, depending on my mood that day. Purple is my favourite colour so I would be spreading purple happiness everywhere! This does sound a bit like a children's cartoon but sometimes, as adults, we need to revert back to when we were kids and use our childlike brains and imaginations. Back when it was a simpler time.  "Miss, she's pinched my pencil with the apple rubber on top!" "Give it back and say sorry." "S...

 Me, myself and I I totally get it now. Some days, well most really, I feel I can be three, or more different people. Just like Alice in Wonderland.  Or you could look at it like I've had three different lives so far. My childhood, my teens and twenties and now my thirties and forties. Perhaps the me is my past, myself my present and I, my future? Another good quote from 'Alice in Wonderland' shows it's hard when you are trying to get back the old you. From thirty years ago, from a year ago. Going back to the past you might not work now. That past you belongs just there, in the past. I've always, up until the last decade, been ok with who I am. Well, fab as a kid, really good as a teen, good in my twenties then kapow! The self doubt kicks in as to who you really are. It started chipping away in my thirties and now, in my forties, I'm, to be honest, a bit lost. I know I'm not the only one. Other friends and family get me because they've had a passport to ...

 Tomorrow's World I remember sitting with my dad, watching this programme in the 80s. He was an old fashioned soul, just like me. When he bought things, he bought them to last. I have held onto lots of old fashioned notions and ways of life I was brought up with. Mainly, the connections of relationships, visiting people, sending cards and writing letters. The slowing down of life, to take more things in.  We would watch this programme, Tomorrow's World, with the new, modern technology, promising a better, brighter future. And this has happened. Technology has helped us so much. But from it, we have also lost a few things. We have lost much of the simplicity of life and we have lost quite a bit of human connections.  Yes, we needed technology to advance and my goodness, there have been some amazing progressions and inventions through the years, especially in science and medical areas. It's probably how fast the changes have been in such a short time with gadgets that somet...