Home Sweet Home, Home Is Where The Heart Is

I’ve been rich, I’ve been poor, but North South East West, they say home’s best!

I used to think my ideal home was an apartment in London, where I lived one time.
We were a community, and it was an ideal place. We all had to move out. In retrospect, it was not my ideal home. London and circumstances changed, and London is no longer the place that it was. It was exciting, colorful and good, productive too one time.

Covid virus made me appreciate a house and garden even more than any apartment, surrounded by other people.

I fell in love with the home that I live in now, even though a derelict at the time. A lot of work later, I call it ‘Home’. It’s still a lot of work.

Bosphorous

Beach house in Aus..just amazing architecture there.

My dream home would be a seafront house on Australia’s West Coast, a perfect lifestyle, or an apartment overlooking the Bosphorus, as my heart has always been in Turkey.

My courtyard and garden………….Bosphorous

Below my bedroom 100 sq mtrs, I love the spaciousness.

Is it the things we collect on our life journey that make us feel at home? I could not bear to part with some treasures.
My Grandmother always said…You cant take your treasures with you!

Perhaps there is a piece of my heart in many places or perhaps I’m just a dreamer in life.

Pound Hounds Home Sweet Home & Mellomen Lady

John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads

Alan Jackson - Blue Ridge Mountain Song

Tom Jones - Green Green Grass Of Home

The Temperance Seven - Pasadena

What made you choose your home, necessity, love, a person, the architecture, geography, spaciousness, or job? Neighbors? Neighbors…Not!!!
How do you really feel about places you lived in? Did you always have a real choice?
Have you collected what seem to be treasures for you? What makes your home, home?
What governed your choices?
Did you always make the right choices or did you improve on what you had?

Enjoy the discussion post images, music, and chat with friends.
Politics, and sometimes religion, doesn’t always go down well in a discussion.
Most of all, enjoy your friends. LFE is a place of respect for all who post.

Lian and Kieran.

Colour Colour Chameleon, is colour the spice of life?

Wherever I look, many people are dressed in black and white these days. It’s so boring.

The sixties were full of colour, and Brahmans don't wear blue—there is something in blue dye that kills insects—and the Japanese wear blue and white, because it wards off insects. Eating al fresco, blue and white plates, yellow attracts insects.
Flags use color symbolism, yellow for gold or prosperity, green for land, blue for peace or the sky.

The color you wear programs your day, IMO. Wear a suitable color for a job interview.
Western brides wear white for purity, Asian brides red. We wear black to funerals, Asians white. Purple is a royal color. So there is a science in color, depending on where you live.

The colours in your house are also important; hospitals choose white, pale blue or grey. Red walls drive the prisoner mad.

Karma Cameleon?
What colour is your aura? Is it a given colour or do you create it? Your karmic actions depict your aura, and your aura can change.
Mostly, you create your aura through your actions.
I once had my aura photographed. I was meditating, and the spirit world also gave me a red rose.
Sparkling white is enlightenment.
There are different color meanings. Healing is green, yellow peace, red is angry, all have different meanings and state.
Unusual is a rainbow aura, denoting many gifts we may have.

Chris de Burgh - Lady in Red

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

Don McLean - Starry, Starry Night (Vincent)

Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans

Post information, your views on color, the colors you choose, the colours you surround yourself with or wear, music reflecting your views, and chat with friends.
Enjoy and chat with friends.

Lian and Kieran

Video Killed The Radio Star

As a child, I was fascinated by men with sandwich boards, the message was the end of the world is nigh.
Now the world appears to message more doom and gloom, people rarely smile these days.

And I don’t think it will!!!!

There are, of course, wars and natural disasters and weather extremes.

Teens in the sixties and seventies used to read, go to dances, make music, and go traveling or do adventure sports. It was a revolution of the arts, music and fashion. The world was full of optimism.

Now they are glued to their phones, and there’s even a word for it. Nomophobia: people are afraid to be without their phones. Losing your phone is a disaster.

Now vast amounts of money are spent on AI weapons that could obliterate many people and do. There is even talk of technology collapsing. We have come to rely on technology way to much. Should technology collapse, survival would be impossible in many places.
I live on a small island, becoming overbuilt and overrun with a population of immigrants and our cities and beaches are packed with tourists. People wear non-descript clothes, usually black, with hoodies. No color around.

Unpredictable weather patterns due to La Niña, global warming and tornadoes are also destroying our planet, as well as wars and weapons, water and food shortages, and natural disasters. Summers here have been well into the hundreds.

When your phone doesn’t ring.

Is that a ferret in your pocket or are you pleased to see me? No, it’s my mobile phone on vibrate.LOL

We also had the pan or plandemic lockdowns affecting many of us, who saw loved ones become sick or damaged by the virus or mental health. A control of people with lockdowns.

It’s been ages since I listened to a radio or watched good comedy, so let's post humor and optimism, as well as our thoughts on will technology improve our lives or lead to the predicted demise of our planet.

Just imagine if the AI bubble bursts?  The repetitive theme of the end is nigh. I like to believe man will find answers to find solutions.

Patrick Watson - Love Songs For Robots

Styx - Mr. Roboto

The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

Kraftwerk - Computer Love

So, let's cheer ourselves up a bit, post memes and music you love, robots dancing.
Let's look on the bright side of life.

Chat with friends and post your views on technology. Most of all, enjoy!

Lian

No, and No More Love...Broken Hearts

Sometimes it’s hard to say No. Better to turn down a prospective partner, if it doesn’t work, than have years of misery. Also good advice in a breakup.

In some situations, No is hard to say politely, however, for self preservation, be polite.

A dog never lets you down, humans do, and can.

Sometimes, other people don’t accept no for an answer. Politeness does not always pay in some situations. I met a guy recently, a friend of two of my friends. Within one hour, he proposed marriage. I was shocked. Then he started an unwanted pursuit. I even tried a cease and desist. In the end, I posted an email to my friends saying that guy was a pain in the butt…I must have pressed the wrong button...it went to him. The return email said….Now I understand, and he stopped the unwanted attention.

However, when love is true, a broken heart can ensue, and yes, animals and people can die from a broken heart.

Some animal owners dump their best friend; that’s something I just can’t understand.

What if they never come home?

Would you say no to a friend in need?

You try explaining.

Sometimes I say…which part of the word no is it you don’t understand?...that’s a tough reply.

How do you go about saying No?

Children can be insistent too…I’m busy right now…when I’ve finished, I will help you.
At the dinner table…You can ask for anything before I sit down, but when I sit down, you may ask to get up for what you want.

My dog was pretty good at asking for things, he made me laugh. He would drop his dinner or water bowl on my foot. How can you resist that one?

I was full of admiration for an elderly lady who asked for a seat from a young man. She said, If you don’t give me a seat, I will ask the driver to throw you off.
Many young people do give up their seats readily, but what do you do if they don’t?
Point at the priority notice? If in need, accidentally fall on them? That does work.

Sometimes negotiation skills can achieve a yes, at a refusal. I usually rehearse before a negotiation.

I used to play the Yes No game with students who were new to get to know them.
That was useful in courts. It was invented as an interrogation technique in the Second World War. That skill led me to avoid a two and a half hour grilling by a top lawyer. Who complained, I had not answered one of his questions. I won my case—no easy matter.

You could say it with flowers! A box of chocolates, sweet talk can work!

Divorce is on the rise, and we see many cases of gold diggers, especially, high profile cases. Divorce is apparently rising in the over fifties.

The Everly Brothers - So Sad

Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender (Live)

The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

No More Love - Beautiful Songs Playlist | Easy listening love ballads | New Relaxing Music

Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel

Remember, avoid politics and religion, and respect all commenters.
Post music, chat with friends and discuss. Off topic could well be on topic.
Most of all, enjoy!

Lian and Kieran