Monthly Archives: April 2019

My stroke of insight (by Jill Bolte Taylor)

and https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare + http://www.traumaticbraininjury.wordpress.com Also see https://inspiringvideo.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/ted-talks/ “Sharing, supporting, informing, enlightening, “entertaining”(??), encouraging, empowering, enriching, challenging, igniting, uplifting (and perhaps even) inspiring” enough there for now, c! SHARE, INFORM, IMPACT, UPLIFT, IGNITE, ENCOURAGE and (perhaps even) INSPIRE

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He would not wake up properly for 38 days…

Originally posted on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI:
or was it 38 years? And then (after that)…”sleep-walking through life” (as “the nurse” * calls it) * https://thenurseanewbook.wordpress.com https://anoneextraordinarylife.wordpress.com/ and http://www.thedriverthenurseandthewriter.wordpress.com See https://headbraininjury.wordpress.com/2013/11 https://livingwithheadbraininjury.wordpress.com/ and http://www.livingwithheadinjury.wordpress.com from a Google search (my “filing…

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Chauncey Gardener (Peter Sellers) in the film ‘Being There’

Originally posted on My Movie(s) 2016: "Imagine, Dream, Believe":
“The nurse says (quite often) that some aspects of my ‘little’ life are a bit like Chauncey, so did a “Google” to see whether she’s right (as always!) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/…

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“What we learn in the darkness, we are to share in the light.”

Originally posted on "An Extraordinary Life": The Young Kiwi Nurse (M: A New Book):
https://traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/what-we-learn-in-the-darkness-we-are-to-share-in-the-light-3/ https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/what-we-learn-in-the-darkness-we-are-to-share-in-the-light-3/ http://www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com and http://thedriverthenurseandthewriter.wordpress.com You may also like https://headbraininjury.wordpress.com/2019/04/21/no-memory-of-the-day-that-changed-my-life/ and https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2019/04/21/no-memory-of-the-day-that-changed-my-life/ from http://thedriverthenurseandthewriter.wordpress.com and http://www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com Sharing, supporting, informing, enlightening, “entertaining”(??), encouraging, empowering, enriching,…

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No memory of the day that changed my life

I have absolutely no recollection of the day* that changed my life over fifty (long) years ago! * nor the following days for some weeks following on from https://traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/what-we-learn-in-the-darkness-we-are-to-share-in-the-light-3/ see https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/brain-injury-and-me/no-memory-of-the-day-that-changed-my-life/ from https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22no+memory+of+the+day+that+changed+my+life%22 pictures from http://www.thedriverthenurseandthewriter.wordpress.com http://www.shatteredbrokendreams.wordpress.com http://www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com http://www.craigswritingjourney.wordpress.com https://writeintothelightbook.wordpress.com/Continue reading

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“What we learn in the darkness, we are to share in the light.”

Originally posted on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI:
“What we learn in the darkness, we are to share in the light.” from http://www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com and http://www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com pictures from http://www.thedriverthenurseandthewriter.wordpress.com http://www.shatteredbrokendreams.wordpress.com http://www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com http://www.craigswritingjourney.wordpress.com https://writeintothelightbook.wordpress.com/ http://www.beliefhope.wordpress.com http://www.climbingmountainsandchasingdreams.wordpress.com http://www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com and http://www.awritersdreams.wordpress.com “Sharing, supporting, informing, enlightening,…

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Sharing Some “Arty-farty, Airy-fairy” Spiritual Thoughts/Writings

Originally posted on Creative Kiwis: "Write, Create, Innovate":
Originally posted on INSPIRE: https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/category/craigs-spiritual-thoughts/ from a Google search (my “filing system to rescue me from sheer utter chaos” – thanks “Big G”) and by that I mean God (far…

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You CAN, if you THINK you can!: “If you think you are beaten, you are…”

Originally posted on It's not the mountain we conquer, but OURSELVES:
If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don’t; If you think to win, but think you lost It’s almost sure…

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Sharing some thoughts to live by (and put a “smile on your dial”…hopefully – from way back in 1998)

Originally posted on Craig's Quotes:
“A man (OOPS, or woman) without a dream is destined never to fulfill his or her full potential in life. Never give up on your dream… but take time to smell the flowers on…

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Sharing some uplifting thoughts on head/brain injury

Just sorting out some of my brain injury quotes (quite a “muddle/mission”) enjoy these thoughts “mr middle muddle” (amidst the chaos) c from http://www.facebook.com/livingwithheadinjury and https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/category/inspirational-quotes/ “NO two brain injuries are the same” “Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects and upsets … Continue reading

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