Prayer For The Stressed.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept...and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I have to kill because they get on my nerves.

Help me always to give 100% at work:

12% on Monday, 23% on Tuesday, 40% on Wednesday, 20% on Thursday, and 5% on Friday.

Help me to remember, when I am having a bad day, and it seems like people are trying to wind me up, that it takes 42 muscles to frown, 28 to smile, and only 4 to extend my arm and smack someone in the mouth.

Words of Wisdom

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 does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela.

This is a photograph taken on a mobile phone, when we played at the World Mental Health Day at Longton Town Hall. The picture was taken by Natalie, from the Media Action Group. In the photo I'm playing an instrumental which I composed, titled"A Bird of Prayer." Before this I did some improvisation, with a new recruit to the Jam Factory, Simeon, who played the Roland synthesizer.

To see the video, which was also done on Natalie's mobile, Click on The Jam Factory blog.

"To dream of the person you would like to be, is to waste the person you are." (Anonymous.)