tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post2392470452287512120..comments2024-02-27T01:02:31.797+13:00Comments on An angel in the garden: Playing the Glad GameCatherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377061243543771813noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-81263137180142760452011-07-09T02:14:31.061+12:002011-07-09T02:14:31.061+12:00Your post really touched me, thank you for sharing...Your post really touched me, thank you for sharing such openness and honesty. Sometimes I let my own issues get the better of me, but I try very hard to play the glad game and your post has reminded me to try a little harder xbibbitybobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16894332792872941816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-74207655853428860072011-07-03T17:16:34.106+12:002011-07-03T17:16:34.106+12:00Oh dear Catherine
my heart goes out to you.
I was...Oh dear Catherine<br />my heart goes out to you.<br /><br />I was so lucky and had the happiest childhood surrounded by love.<br /><br />All children deserve a safe, secure and loving home.<br />And all children deserve to be children, without worries or fears.<br /><br />I had many books but not Pollyanna and I still haven't read it so guess what - I'm off to the library tomorrow to borrow it!<br /><br />Your strength of spirit is incredible and I daresay your wonderful imagination was created out of a desperate need when you were very young.<br />Thank God for Pollyanna and similar books - I wonder if the authors ever imagined what an important part they would play in some childrens lives.<br /><br />You're a wonderful writer and I would love to see you writing a book - especially one involving your fairies - because if it touches one little child as Pollyanna touched you - you will have created a masterpiece.<br /><br />You have really touched my heart today, thank you Catherine.<br />With love<br />ShaneShane Pollardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06674612132049839026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-14756318045720017472011-07-03T12:13:01.213+12:002011-07-03T12:13:01.213+12:00Hello Katie,
I have often wondered about the orig...Hello Katie,<br /> I have often wondered about the origins of your "abandonment". Thank you for filling in the gaps.<br />For allowing us to fit the pieces together, because we really do care! <br />I too play the Glad game, and lately I am so fortunate to be able to play it easily. So I make hay when the sun shines. As you are doing.<br />And the way you write is just so thought provoking, even on your "black dog days". Perhapse more so then.<br />You have a gift.<br />I wish you were my neighbour too, so i could share "the Granny" with you over the garden gate (minding out for the cows!)<br />Love Jacquimagpie chichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10581726079731396861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-33960395430283987682011-07-01T22:59:15.865+12:002011-07-01T22:59:15.865+12:00This post of yours is very powerful, and I was dra...This post of yours is very powerful, and I was drawn deeply into it.<br />I feel so sorry for you, and others who face challenges that some of us don't have to deal with. <br /><br />Thank you for sharing these deepest thoughts and feelings and experiences.OP SHOP MAMAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04178232898311777366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-15031865180057264982011-07-01T18:20:07.769+12:002011-07-01T18:20:07.769+12:00Dear Catherine, I wish I had a magic wand that co...Dear Catherine, I wish I had a magic wand that could take away your sadness. I have thought about you since reading yesterday, and wanted to offer some wonderful words of wisdom that would ease your heartache, you, I think are doing the best you can to do this. Your glad game is a very good way to look at life and I will definitely be trying it. I send you instead, a heartfelt hug across the oceans, mixed in with some love, an awful lot of kindness, with a smidgen of faery wishes. May your dark times pass quickly, you are a beautiful person, strive to be happy...(the desiderata). We cannot control what another does to us , but we can control who we want to be, xxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13831452606024076452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-69082576664532877742011-07-01T11:36:20.546+12:002011-07-01T11:36:20.546+12:00There are no words I can offer you that will take ...There are no words I can offer you that will take away the pain of your childhood. But there are words of a friend who hears what you are saying and wishes with everything she can that you only know happiness, love, beauty, laughter, peace and joy as you continue in this journey we call life.<br />Despite our grief, despair, pain, hurt, sorrow, anquish and misery of days past, our lives now are what we make them and that is what you are doing. You are creating a life that you want filled with love and beauty. You are not allowing the past to dictate what you are. The past has no power over us only if we allow it to be so.<br />Your childhood experiences allow you to know now what it is to truly love, to be truly compassionate, to be truly happy because you have gone through times without those things in your life.<br />Having a partner in life who understands us is one of the most amazing gifts we have been given. Someone who is not threatened by our insecurities, who is patient and loving. We are very lucky Catherine to have these amazing men in our lives.<br />I hope the sun is shining in your life today, that you see the beauty surrounding you and have peace and calm in your world.<br />Have a lovely weekend,<br />Anne xx**Anne**https://www.blogger.com/profile/05595796965034742923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-21907939323249821182011-07-01T05:34:57.388+12:002011-07-01T05:34:57.388+12:00Well Catherine, I had a 'dud' my poor old ...Well Catherine, I had a 'dud' my poor old mum played games of mental cruelty but somehow I loved her, our childhood was very insecure, poor in terms of money and affection and yet we came through it, but like you I have come out a bit mis-shapen! I would like to play the gladness game - infact,I have been doing it all my life so will be quite good at it (my frequent thankfulness posts are a sort of glad game I think). My youngest brother has been in counselling for several years to come to terms with some of the things that 'happened' to us, the other seems totally indifferent as he learned like me to shut things out - I think I can be glad that I am alive, have been able to produce such beautiful children and have a husband whose background was not unlike mine, so we are good for each other. I will put the glad game on my blog, there's always plenty to be glad about I find these days! BettyxElderberry-Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14197689596360708239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-44972492024440896932011-07-01T04:34:15.257+12:002011-07-01T04:34:15.257+12:00Why is it I wonder that some of us seem to have th...Why is it I wonder that some of us seem to have these dark times and others seem completely unaffected by them? I think playing the glad game is a beautiful idea. I too feel very lonely at times and can imagine how you feel when your husband has gone to work, but as you say how lovely that you now get to spend your mornings together. <br /><br />I've just listened the the cello music, how wonderful, how I wished I hadn't given up on the cello as a teenager! It was far too difficult to haul it to school on three different buses. Perhaps it can be something I do once my pains are better. They say 'Never too late'.<br /><br />{hugs} to you Catherine and thank you for reminding me to check out your gorgeous blog for the music link. :-) I haven't been very good at blog reading lately, which is silly really as I really love reading all of what you write, it comes from the heart and to the heart.Serenatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08473750681150978115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-44683933522329602342011-07-01T01:40:19.001+12:002011-07-01T01:40:19.001+12:00Hi C! Back to tell you that I linked to you in to...Hi C! Back to tell you that I linked to you in today's post and I am putting The Glad Game on my sidebar. LOVE this!Pom Pomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01524994024698986829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-21349139047232788992011-07-01T00:45:04.780+12:002011-07-01T00:45:04.780+12:00Oh, Catherine. I love your heart and your soul. ...Oh, Catherine. I love your heart and your soul. I feel like you are a treasured friend, just too far away! I wish you were my neighbor. We'd have so much fun. I'm going to play The Glad Game for sure. Today! You are so wise and have a true mother's heart, full of conviction and truth. My first encounter with Pollyanna was a Little Golden Book found in a log cabin bookshelf. My auntie had a big family gathering at the beach and because everyone had big families and there were too many kids around, I being a more solitary soul, tucked into a lumpy sofa by the fireplace and became fascinated with the story. I shall be taking care of little Millie today and Kelli has the movie. I'm watching it again for sure. Thank you for your dear honesty and your deep inspiration that comes with it. LOVE.Pom Pomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01524994024698986829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-39558839551352537412011-07-01T00:43:26.889+12:002011-07-01T00:43:26.889+12:00Thank you for your lovely comment Nelly. I really ...Thank you for your lovely comment Nelly. I really appreciate it. Yes do get Pollyanna out for the kids the 2003 version was especially just great. XCatherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377061243543771813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026836570304833522.post-40774450766195496572011-07-01T00:19:12.578+12:002011-07-01T00:19:12.578+12:00I think most of us are still the child that was h...I think most of us are still the child that was hurt or scarred by something I know I was.I was fortunate tho toi have a good mum albiet one that had her own chikdhood demons that still affect her now at her old age.<br />I have had alot of things happen over the last few years that have not helped me with noy laways lookung at bright side of life -monty python and is one I have always tried to do.<br />As an avid child reader (no TVs for us) I read and loved Pollyanna and what Katy did and heidi and Little women as well and what they all did when they grew up and had kids and loved them all.<br />I must get pollyanna out for the kids to watch soon.<br />Lovely post and thanks for sharing I am sorry you didnt get the love you should have as a child((((hugs))))Nellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01772909805259138693noreply@blogger.com