We went to see the Cirque de Soleil on the weekend. We went with Stephen and his parents who are all deaf. What a perfect thing for us all to share. The circus uses music and sound very effectively, but it is all reflected in the visual performance, so we all had a fantastic experience. We've been following a theme of personal activity, freedom and perfection and I am now inspired to write more about performance. The movie this week will give you a different view on juggling and what it can be done with it.

Helen has come up with fantastic images for us again. This week we see the wonder of human imagination and wit. We will also celebrate vegetables in the recipe and I'll try to continue the theme in the exercises, too.

Whisk the eggs in a bowl using a fork then add the milk, ground linseed/flaxseed, spices, herbs, salt and pepper. Continue to whisk all the ingredients until they are all mixed in.

Use a good non-stick pan to fry the omelette so that you only need a small amount of oil. Add the mixture to the pan and 30 seconds later, whilst the mixture is still runny, add the frozen spinach. Use a spatula to ensure the omelette remains loose from the pan at the edges. Add the frozen peas and sliced mushrooms to the same side of the omelete as the spinach.

When the omelette is nearly cooked through but still moist sprinkle the cheese over the mushrooms and fold the empty side of the omelette over the cheese. Cook for another minute and serve with a small salad.

Serves 1

Mind: If you were a vegetable, what would the world be like for you? Some say that corn is taking over the world. You find it everywhere, in all kinds of foods and now even as a fuel. Can potatoes see anything at all, even though they have 'eyes'? How does a banana cope with being a herb, but everyone thinking it is a fruit? Let your imagination run vegetable!

Soul: Make a list of your strengths (or use the list from last week) and consider how these might be used to help resolve a difficult situation in the world today. How might you be able to contribute? What could you do in Russia/Georgia? What about in the international court? What about in the hurricane areas of Florida?

Making Magic from the Basics.

It wasn't what they did that was amazing, but what they did with what they did that took your breath away. In Choose Hope I wrote a story about Grandeur where I was fascinated at the way adults needed grandeur - the Grand Canyon, The Three Sisters - to be impressed and amazed, but a baby could be just as fascinated by a rolling piece of paper or a person pulling funny faces. At the circus we revelled in the age old antics of the clowns who tripped and fuddled their way through their Dralion journey.

It wasn't even the imaginative way that the performers gave us a new view on traditional things. The thing that took my breath was the amount of work, rehearsal and effort that clearly went into each act. How much do we put into the performance of our daily lives? Do we try to get things to the very best we can or just slouch along with 'good enough'? The other important question is: What do we consider important enough to truly excell at? We can't possibly rehearse everything to a point of perfection. That would ruin the sponteneity of life. So, what is worth putting your 'all' into? Love? Hobby? Art? Perhaps just the process of creatively engaging in your experience - being there, in the moment? As we discussed last week, perhaps perfection is allowing for the imperfection of a creative life to be perfectly acceptable?

Have a look at what can be done with a series of fairly straightforward juggling techniques, but presented in a fascinating and remarkable way.

What an amazing expression of creative invention. Not so much 'faster, higher, better' which is more about doing what is already done at a higher degree of efficiency. This is the sort of thing we are looking for at the Olympics. Can the record be broken? But even in the olympics we are on the lookout for that new and innovative thing. Gymnastics is full of set moves that bear the names of the person who did it first. Doing what you do in a way that reflects your personality and potential will give rise to amazing, 'remarkable' stuff.

I find it interesting when we say 'the grass is always greener on the other side'. While one person is looking at the 'greener' grass where someone else is, the other person is looking at their 'greener' grass. Sometimes the 'winner/loser world' is just a migration to new 'grass' only to find that the grass you were on in the first place is the best - because it is your grass. Not believing in your own potential and possibility is so ingrained we can see it even in our colloquial language. Look at your own grass and make magic from it.

Here's something simpler, but pretty cool, nonetheless

When you take up the challenge of adding your 'self' to the world, things change. Trying to be what the world wants is so hard and so diminishing. Adding your 'self' to the world and seeing what you create together is the place of magic and the place of excitement and passion. The grass is greenest under your own feet!

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