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What has been your highlight today, no matter how big or small? Come share 🫶

ChasingsunsetsSenior Contributor

What has been your highlight today, no matter how big or small? Come share 🫶

Hi everyone! This is my first ever forum post so do hope it lands where it’s meant to 🤣

Most days, I like to find a highlight 😊. Usually, that means during a walk with my dog, I try to spot something different, something cool or something that brings me some happiness. Whether it’s something big or small, it doesn’t matter. A highlight can be anything!

I love taking photos and would really like to share and see what you've come across. Something that made you smile, sparked your interest, or simply caught your eye. For me, it’s all the little things that count on the hard days.


To start, I’d like to share these beautiful birds I came across today. They like to appear like branches of a tree or the tree itself. They are called Tawny Frogmouth’s. Has anyone else seen these types of birds? My pics below -(hopefully not too small to see two in the tree on the left pic).

What have you seen today? ☀️💛🙏

 

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AppleblossomSenior Contributor

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@heartathome i was too busy with school, babysitting and working for food and clothes and shoes as a teen, to go through cute hippy phase as a teen

very little access to popular radio or tv... family not rich enough...

first piano lesson on 8 inch toy under a tree in front of an orphanage

it is why i am now getting triggered by too many current uber eats stories...as signs of recovery and everythings alright... oh thats Godspell...nothing too poppy... i try to be polite...

first heard beatles at 16 ... once ....not had as much free will choice as most people born in my year or my city

@PeppyPatti @Chasingsunsets @tyme @Jynx @Dimity @Shaz51 @AlwaysMyself @Faith-and-Hope @DownMoreThanUp

todays highlight is that the case at court was withdrawn. no legal representation, but conversaations with the prosecutor. it was a frivolous bureaucratic exercise, waste of taxpayers money and discriminatory against people with mental health and my family in particular.. I am still hyper and agitated and have been for weeks. thinking of going to police ombudsman about my trauma about it. i did talk about police brutality. they wouldnt let me read my brief statement, in which i mentioned Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 and Sir Robert Peel's principles of policing and crime prevention and APPROPRIATE levels of force. The modern system is not better. Too many guns on too many hips.

we ended up having 3 people as support from the community, not formal supports. one a friend of mine. one a friend of my son and one.... weirdly ... woo woo... synchronicity... was a young lady... who actually worked at the court. I had only met her once when she had been to my house a few weeks ago and heard my son play piano.

but it is too many years of stress and harassment for me (8years) watching them target and profile my loved one.

i am afraid it might be too little too late for me. my system is wildly dysregulated... just too much childhood trauma, deaths, so when triggered it seems to be getting worse and longer to settle ... these days

only 3 1/2 hours sleep etc

HOWEVER I AM GRATEFUL for support in real life and online

i know all the cutesy tips, so pleez dont patronise me

but it takes weeks or months for me to get settled with this kind of sense of heightened alert

i have cancelled my commitments as much as i can to reduce stressors

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DownMoreThanUpSenior Contributor

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@Appleblossom How horrible when such injustices keep on happening. i hope and pray you find peace and resolve about all this.

i hope you are not too run down fighting the enemy. Often times we are better of let 'Their Karma' do the job for us. For bad life always suffers a backlash hurting life down here in The End i know to be true.

Hoping you will catch some shut eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wQdAHGyhoY&list=RD0wQdAHGyhoY&start_radio=1

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DimitySenior Contributor

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Hallelujah @Appleblossom . Very thankful for you. And your son.

Perhaps it's a glimmer of increased awareness in the powers that be.

I hope you can rest, recover from this awful experience and allow some quiet celebration.

Glad you had Messiah yesterday. Best wishes for the upcoming performance.

❤️

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PeppyPattiSenior Contributor

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Is this your cat @TAB with you ?

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heartathomeSenior Contributor

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I'm sorry @Appleblossom I should have realised!! 😔 I certainly didn't mean to trigger you, if I have! 💛

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TABSenior Contributor

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..cannot see pic yet @PeppyPatti

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OaktreeSenior Contributor

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@Cuddlebear @Chasingsunsets @TAB @heartathome @PeppyPatti @Shaz51

Hey guys,

My highlight today was gifting a few items on our local pay it forward - buy nothing page. I gifted two unopened sets of body lotion/scrubs and a purple stethoscope from when I was studying Nursing. It was bittersweet to gift the stethoscope because that was closing the door on a dream but I am hoping that it will be the start of someone else's dream.

We also registered hubby's seniors' card at the department of transport so we will get a bit of a refund on our car rego.

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heartathomeSenior Contributor

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What a lovely thing to do; paying it forward! @Oaktree That's a big deal handing over your stethoscope! Well done to you for doing it! 💛

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OaktreeSenior Contributor

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Thanks @heartathome

Love to you 💜

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PeppyPattiSenior Contributor

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Beautiful

@DownMoreThanUp

Thankyou for showing

nighty night 🐫🐋🐪🐑

@TAB @DownMoreThanUp @ENKELI @Chasingsunsets @Oaktree @heartathome

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