Monday Morning

Say it quietly, but I may be getting better.

That nasty taste in my chest that was here yesterday has gone away. I woke when the alarm went off, feeling quite good, and - not exactly full of energy, but with a desire to do something.

It's the last day of my course of penicillin. I'm not going to phone the doctor until tomorrow.

I feel happy. I have a destiny to fulfil.

I shall spit.

Happy New Year

Our deepest fear
is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I
to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.


Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."

from 'A Return To Love' (1992)
by Marianne Williamson
(thanks to Euan Semple for this)

Happy New Year: It's 2009

And I will never, never, never grow so old again.

A Happy Ending

Thank you for reading HotVimto in 2008.
See you all again in 2009!

[In] Appropriate Crushes - Kate Jackson

You wouldn't think it to look at her, but...

..she's from Bury St. Edmunds.