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Greetings Lunicorners,

One Lunicorn has just returned, somewhat frazzled, from an event, where she was wearing a completely different hat! And the strange mix of adrenalin and exhaustion has urged me to pen this blog right this very minute as a very extraordinary couple of things happened today.

Firstly, I was upanatem early this morning, and because other Ms Lunicorn had gone off to host our stall at the Viking Festival in Largs, I had the luxury of being able to switch on the television as I munched on my toast. There, on the Andrew Marr programme was a man, previously an actor, who had decided to chuck that particular career, and pursue 'peace', not as an ideal, but as an essential if the world, as we know it, is to survive. So much so, that he and the UN have created an International Day of Peace on 21st September (and practical things will happen that day, it's not just an airy fairy notion). Annie Lennox sat next to him, echoing the sentiment and putting her celebrity weight behind it. Oh no, not another hippy rant, you say...wait till you hear the next bit....

Ok, so my ringtone on my phone is usually Dusty's "The Look of Love", but when my phone rang this morning, suddenly it was Elvis' "If I can dream". I thought, how odd? But in my fresh intuitive state, thought, right, maybe I should just go with this, and instead of changing it back to Dusty, let it be this for just today, knowing that my phone was likely to be ringing off its little rocker, due to the nature of the work I was doing at the event, and maybe I needed a different energy to get me through it. When I left the event this evening and got into the taxi, I went to change it back, and of course, it was as if it had never been altered. My ringtone for 'incoming calls' was still Dusty.

Now, us Lunicorns have just listened to that song in full, and the lyrics speak volumes. If you get a chance, check it out. It was no co-incidence that this was what I needed to hear today.

On another note, the presenter of the event I was working at today, was Danny Wallace. Who he you may say? Well, apart from being on TV quite a bit, his book 'The Yes Man' is being made into a film, and Jim Carrey is playing him. I listened to him, as he explained what the book was about. He, Danny, spent six months, just simply saying 'yes' to everything, like when friends phoned him up wanting to go out, and when he would previously have made an excuse, he simply said 'yes'. Although, he also told a funny tale of when a double glazing salesman phoned him up and offered him a quote, to which he answered 'yes'. When can I come round said the salesman? What suits you said Danny? Tuesday, said the salesman. Yes said Danny. I should mention, he added, that I am already fully double glazed. The salesman said are you wasting my time? Danny said 'yes'. Anyhoo, the point of all that is that after Danny had started saying yes, he suddenly got lots of offers and things really shifted for him in his career. So, once again, the positive wins over the negative. We're not advocating 'yes' as a constant, as of course, there are some occasions when you should most definitely say no.

Meanwhile, the Viking Festival over the last four days has been terrific for Lunicorn. And Dundee Body & Soul, despite an AA route planner nightmare which took us over the Tay Bridge and back, was fantastic. Special guest speaker there, Alison De Marco, had, in the morning, jumped out of an aeroplane, in aid of charity, BoobyBirds, so was suitably shaken when she arrived to do her talk. Google it, and donate if you want, it's a really great cause.

So lots happening as ever, we may blog again just for fun over the next day or so.
Yes, yes, yes, we will.
Peace, joy, gratitude, ain't it sweet?
Till next time
L & L
The Lunicorns