That was Then… a Short While Before I Found Companionship With a Worm

I'd been along this little path for months now. It crossed from the backdoor to the tap outside where there was the one tap of water. I trudged along it daily either grumbling within or stressing about one thing or another. If it wasn’t a misplaced item, it was a word said too soon. I never failed to have something to stress about.

Stressing was quickly turning into my natural state of being – my proclivity – and I was yet to realize just how dangerous that proclivity was to me. It wasn’t as though I had not heard it all before; I knew the script by heart. Give thanks in all circumstances. Always keep a thankful heart. But how could I keep a thankful heart in these circumstances? How could I keep a thankful heart when I was virtually homeless?

Virtually?

Did I say virtually?

What a load of BS!

I was homeless – there was no other way to describe my situation other than that, and I was mad – mad as in as angry as a loser. 

The art of breaking the ice in a public speaking forum

'Let us all stand to welcome, the legendary author and public speaker, Paula-a-a-a-a Thay-r-r-r-o-w-w…' Steve's strong voice thundered out, quickly followed by the deafening and thunderous applause of the audience.

I smiled at Steve as he moved from the podium to make way for me. I went over and gave him the usual good-will-for-public-image hug, then proceeded in a calm walk to take my place behind the podium.

He smiled knowingly at me, because he knew there was nothing I could do about his little display of public mischief. You see, Steve was the typical public figure entrée de elegance commentator. He loved to be dramatic! His official script was to make sure the audience were comfortable, energized, and ready to listen, before the key-note speaker came up on stage.

Creating drama was what made Steve enjoy this bit of his work thoroughly. He came up with all sorts of amazing pimp-them-up type of titles for the various speakers at these Personal Growth and Achievement Seminars.

I had told him myriad of times not to use euphemisms that meant little and he happily ignored my instructions every time he went on stage to introduce a speaker.

I mean, of all the titles in the world, 'Legendary' was not one I had grown up thinking of using. Women take on such titles as 'Mrs', 'Justice' or such like. And we now had new generation titles like 'Bishop', 'Dr' (that were honorary or bought off the internet), 'Honourable' (for politicians who would turn up their noses in disgust at anyone who dared call them Mrs So-and-so) and some very pretty ones like 'Lady'.

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About this blog
This blog is about Personal Development; that's like the way you would find a homestead where everyone is vegetarian, so it's kind of untidy to start a conversation at dinner about these amazing beef dishes they make in Africa.

Similarly, I will consider it grossly impolite to tell you about the values of organic jet fuel on this blog, much as that may be a topic of intense interest to you.

You can safely then expect that everything on the blog will directly or indirectly discuss Personal Development and how you can enhance your life results, find good deals… of Personal Development Books, find the latest and empowering books… in Personal Development, and I am sure you catch the drift…

An important category of posts on this blog is the Kipepeo Journey

You will find the blog posts explained on the Kipepeo Journey page. The Kipepeo Journey page is sort of like the balcony in a house to a room where the actual room is the Kipepeo Journey blog entries. This page will help you understand why these posts are on a Personal Development blog. To go to the Kipepeo Journey page click on link: Kipepeo Journey

To your lifelong empowerment
Paula Zawadi Thayrow