tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post9088439933049213602..comments2024-03-27T16:19:53.023+00:00Comments on Friko's World: Reporting FailureFrikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-52171821825254119392015-12-31T05:38:31.911+00:002015-12-31T05:38:31.911+00:00In our youth we once faced similar times in Europe...In our youth we once faced similar times in Europe depending on how the war left areas.<br />Yes now we are the more fortunate and I feel it and hope those struggling will find a way to a better time.Heidrun Khokhar, KleinsteMottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16174142810114806410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-47227254845435175122015-12-08T11:40:17.705+00:002015-12-08T11:40:17.705+00:00That is a nice post, Friko. I too give daily thank...That is a nice post, Friko. I too give daily thanks that I am not one of the many people we see suffering every day. We forget that even leaving aside their general plight, they are ALSO going to be suffering from the litle niggles that afflict us - a twisted ankle, people being nasty - as well as the larger anxieties - like why someone isn't answering a phone back home. Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-32313287204007609072015-12-06T20:29:51.738+00:002015-12-06T20:29:51.738+00:00You almost sound "Midwestern" viz. feeli...You almost sound "Midwestern" viz. feeling guilty for feeling good when others are not feeling so. hohoho I know that feeling well. That is what being thankful is about - allowing ourselves happiness without feeling bad about it. Ur-spohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237644452200889946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-10470748947793853602015-12-05T21:24:27.624+00:002015-12-05T21:24:27.624+00:00I sometimes wonder about the media footage...skept...I sometimes wonder about the media footage...skeptic that I am I have seen both abject misery and in the next segment of news expensive designer jeans on overweight and very well made up women giving interviews of how hard it has been on them. Hummn it makes me disconnect sometimes. However I know I am blessed and I try to be less judgemental. The world is a difficult place right now. Take care Fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05348495575211204989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-8272411837240507862015-12-05T11:53:53.687+00:002015-12-05T11:53:53.687+00:00your last paragraph
says it all...your last paragraph<br />says it all...One Woman's Journey - a journal being written from Woodhaven - her cottage in the woods.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12548226150115102345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-68801811620365269172015-12-04T00:54:47.669+00:002015-12-04T00:54:47.669+00:00As Joared says, just being alive is enough. I neve...As Joared says, just being alive is enough. I never find you smug. I'd say we share the same burdens and the same joys from time to time. Life is allsorts really.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-82361288899014165692015-12-03T09:09:31.329+00:002015-12-03T09:09:31.329+00:00Thoughtful words! What each of us finds to be tha...Thoughtful words! What each of us finds to be thankful for certainly depends on our circumstances. Perhaps, just being alive is enough at times.joaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09999395062839739698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-8132370750065917872015-12-02T16:21:38.954+00:002015-12-02T16:21:38.954+00:00You have done better than you think with your week...You have done better than you think with your week of blessings, Friko. It leads beautifully into making us think in greater depth about the refugee and world situation, and I write on the day when it looks like the UK Parliament will decide to commence bombing Isil in Syria. Sometimes all we can do is to do the small stuff - and try to say the right things when people come out with prejudice andFredahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672598946758847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-64702585758746252872015-12-02T16:04:28.645+00:002015-12-02T16:04:28.645+00:00I do love your Advent wreath. I have one that I bo...I do love your Advent wreath. I have one that I bought in Germany many years ago now and this year was able to find some authentic German candles for it -- which I am very pleased about. The plight of so many struggling to find safe haven amidst so much determination from others, who have so much, to thwart them is on my mind a great deal -- especially as I have so much that is good and positive The Broadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04976467218216864644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-676325536632357702015-12-02T14:20:11.908+00:002015-12-02T14:20:11.908+00:00Of all the things I envy here, the thought of that...Of all the things I envy here, the thought of that pheasant dinner tops the list. My dad and his friends were good pheasant hunters, roaming the Iowa corn fields to put the bird on our table. It was delicious, and still my favorite game, I think. I'm not so fond of duck, and can take or leave venison (except for summer sausage and backstrap), but I would enjoy a nice pheasant. Unfortunately, shoreacreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16284698314697628805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-78760761737786061252015-12-02T08:01:21.379+00:002015-12-02T08:01:21.379+00:00PS: I don't think I've ever eaten pheasant...PS: I don't think I've ever eaten pheasant. Is it worth a try?Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-91726980117209472542015-12-02T08:00:59.969+00:002015-12-02T08:00:59.969+00:00Now I have "Reasons to be cheerful" play...Now I have "Reasons to be cheerful" playing in my head - I suspect it will be with me all day. Steve loved his Ian Dury CD and often played it. I actually don't even know whether I still have it in my CD collection, or sold it after his death along with many other of his things I did not see the point in keeping (plus I really, really needed the money back then).<br />Well, you Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-29057857295912557812015-12-02T07:34:08.777+00:002015-12-02T07:34:08.777+00:00liebe friko, entschuldige, dass ich mich so lange ...liebe friko, entschuldige, dass ich mich so lange nicht gemeldet habe...! ich habe eine ganz andere art von einstellung, was dein thema betrifft. jeder ist anders und jeder hat seine erfahrungen im seinem eigenen leben gemacht und positives denken oder lustigsein kann und soll man nicht erzwingen. ich denke, das beste ist, man entspannt sich, soweit es geht und nimm dich doch so, wie du bist, Renéehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11325604073581280336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-1631103591981138652015-12-02T04:30:55.105+00:002015-12-02T04:30:55.105+00:00Well said, my friend. Sometimes, I too feel like ...Well said, my friend. Sometimes, I too feel like it would seem smug to flaunt my blessings because I have more that most of the world could ever hope to have. Most of my problems are first world problems. Thanks for the reminder of just how blessed we all are. In the end, it is all about enjoying the small mercies we many times overlook. Sally Wesselyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06470453773515491625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-52070244120760062092015-12-02T04:03:57.539+00:002015-12-02T04:03:57.539+00:00A lovely post, indeed. A lovely post, indeed. Ur-spohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237644452200889946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-63089891347740359002015-12-02T02:19:44.750+00:002015-12-02T02:19:44.750+00:00Oh Friko, I cannot tell you how many times I have ...Oh Friko, I cannot tell you how many times I have thought of the tunes of Mr Dury, and of the Pythons when experiencing some unwanted intrusion of unpleasant news or a person's behavior. I admit that those tunes still give me a bit of a interior giggle, and help to provide a fresh page in my mind.<br /><br />I do not express myself as well as you do, but am able to comprehend all that you&#Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-11500216973300224412015-12-02T00:06:59.784+00:002015-12-02T00:06:59.784+00:00The world is full of so much beauty and goodness -...The world is full of so much beauty and goodness -- as well as so much ugliness and evil -- we have to be aware of both and not let one blind us to the other.Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-17866792143033111342015-12-02T00:06:33.481+00:002015-12-02T00:06:33.481+00:00The world is full of so much beauty and goodness -...The world is full of so much beauty and goodness -- as well as so much ugliness and evil -- we have to be aware of both and not let one blind us to the other.Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-1374169945312531232015-12-01T21:49:20.881+00:002015-12-01T21:49:20.881+00:00I'm so relieved you've set aside reasons t...I'm so relieved you've set aside reasons to be cheerful. I have been<br />glum all day schlepping around in the rain doing holiday-related<br />tasks. Until now. I've put on some raucous music and read your post<br />and thanks to both am thoroughly cheered up. Oops I think that may<br />count as a reason to be cheerful, at least in Ian Drury and the<br />Blockheads style!Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-50803274954280427132015-12-01T20:17:22.819+00:002015-12-01T20:17:22.819+00:00I think you are more cheerful than you give yourse...I think you are more cheerful than you give yourself credit for. You allude to it by saying that you don't have to count and record the cheerful thankful bits.Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996243850279671523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-90191300434969331372015-12-01T20:06:31.725+00:002015-12-01T20:06:31.725+00:00Hallo Friko,
Du sprichst mir aus der Seele, dass v...Hallo Friko,<br />Du sprichst mir aus der Seele, dass viele Blogs ausschließlich positiv denken, oberflächlich sind und reine Schön-Wetter-Blogs. Positiv denken ist nicht verkehrt, aber ich versuche die Dinge eher realistisch zu sehen anstatt alles Böse und Schlecht schlichtweg zu übersehen. Hübsche Fotos finde ich auch toll, aber ab und zu muss mal was kritisches dabei sein.<br /><br />Gruß rheinland-bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11531150233517521024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-30912525465050423262015-12-01T19:01:55.678+00:002015-12-01T19:01:55.678+00:00I am shamed by many of the attitudes promoted by p...I am shamed by many of the attitudes promoted by politicians/media/noisy voices about the asylum seekers/refugees. And my heart goes out to them (to the refugees not the opinionated).<br />Thank you for this.Elephant's Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650565833097914052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-63957500141434334952015-12-01T18:36:39.089+00:002015-12-01T18:36:39.089+00:00We are truly blessed!
On bad days I think about ...We are truly blessed! <br />On bad days I think about how there are so many others who have it worse. ;)<br />But then, I am one of those tiresome people--ROFL! :)<br />Sounds like you did have a good week.Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02043285884495492598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-18638237644995998622015-12-01T17:17:47.290+00:002015-12-01T17:17:47.290+00:00We are indeed extremely fortunate to have been ble...We are indeed extremely fortunate to have been blessed with lives in relatively stable countries. What frosts my cookies are all the ingrates complaining about this and that during what promises to be a very long election season.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-54393497294513786142015-12-01T13:13:54.434+00:002015-12-01T13:13:54.434+00:00I think you said it perfectly! I love the way you ...I think you said it perfectly! I love the way you see the world and I so appreciate your outlook on life. AND, I am very glad (oh no! That word! How about very happy) that you had a good week. Hey, with "Winter's Tale"and pheasant, I'd call it a great week. And I love your advent centerpiece. <br /><br />I, too, can't turn away from the refugees and I am shocked and Jeaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17482528482559445943noreply@blogger.com