Chezz - C'Tack!

Gday I am Chezza and come from the land down under and live in a small town on the banks of the Murray River.

Basically I am like everyone else, just trying to do the best that I can with the hand of cards that I have been dealt.

I am married with a family including one child from my 1st marriage and 3 children from my husband’s 1st marriage - I am privileged to be a part of their lives.

I am currently undergoing rather gruelling medical treatment after my 2nd severe relapse of ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If I don't respond to a comment left or if you are a friend and it looks as if I am not reading your blog it will be due to the fact that I am resting because of my ME/CFS - so don't take it personally.
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I always try to live by this prayer; taken from the Doughboy Prayer:

The supreme prayer of my heart is to be radiant.

I desire to radiant health, calm, courage, cheerfulness and good will.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy or fear.

I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected, ready to say “I do not know,” if so be it.

To meet all men on an absolute equality, to face an obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

I wish others to live their lives, too, up to their fullest and best.

To the end I pray that I never meddle, interfere, dictate, and give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people I will do it, by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference, suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation.

That is to say, I desire to be radiant, to radiant life.

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I also strongly believe in this motto:

Opportunity is always present in the midst of crisis. “Every crisis carries two elements, danger and opportunity. No matter the difficulty of the circumstances, no matter how dangerous the situation…. At the heart of each crisis lies a tremendous opportunity. Great Blessings lie ahead for the one who knows the secret of finding the opportunity within each crisis."
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Gender: Female. Not relevant but people keep thinking I am a man.
Religion: It depends what day of the week it is.
Politics: Whatever is best for the majority.
Colour of Skin: Not relevant
Ethnic Background: Not relevant
Folder or a scruncher: Folder

Here you will find quite a mixed bag, including politics, religion, humour, inspiring stories, poems, songs and quotes, personal bits and pieces. This blog is also a record of my life as a person who has CFS/ME. I have had periods of time being bedbound and housebound and I am only now starting to regain a more normal life since my 2nd severe relapse of CFS/ME. I have had CFS/ME to varying degrees since 1995. The 1st severe bout was in 2000 and my 2nd relapse August 2005. So my blog is also a record of my path to recovery. I have grand ideas where I think I can save the world, so you will find some entries devoted to both mine and other’s quests to save our world. Yeah I guess you could say that I am a bit of a “Flower Power Gal.” I will also bore you with some of my own photos, I use these as a symbol of the recovery I have made in the return to what would be deemed a more normal life. I am not saying I am normal, as to be normal is way too boring and life is way too short for it to be boring, so I would rather be slightly insane, than sane. Miles of Smiles and the Odd Tear Too.