The Uses Of Adversity

According to Joy Lim, reputed Feng Shui expert, the Year of the Ox, 2009 will be a “year of resilience”.

 

Other Feng Shui experts echo Lim’s sentiments that despite (or perhaps because of) the current economic turbulence that the Year of the Ox will bring respite because the Ox is patient, persevering and tireless.

 

A time to keep our head down, replenish the soil, focus on getting the basics right and our arses back in gear.

 

I don’t know if this is custom, prediction or wishful thinking, but I’ll take it!

 

We all fail but we are only a failure when our truth is smothered in blame and regret. Courage and appreciation will be as important as ever as we step together into the wondrous Year of The Ox!

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O Happy Day! Hung Hei Fat Choi!

 

 

"Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing".

As You Like It; Act III, Scene I