From to Dubai to New York, us flowers are everywhere.

A big congratulations to flowers contributor mighty morgan who is settling at home with her new bambino. The new little flower bud, Samantha Rose (who really is a little miracle as the labor almost killed her) joined the world – all 4 lbs 10 oz of her.

We applaud Mighty Morgan in New York after her journey that few others would get through after we followed her progress over at her blog, The Process of a miracle – A 30 day experiment – addiction to recovery and beyond.

So, on behalf of all at GSTF this one is for Samantha Rose in New York:

Congratulations again! All baby type comments welcomed here, all 4 lb and 10 oz of them!

Well flower people, I’ve recently been evaluating friendships especially with having ended a “friendship” that I’ve had for more than 30 years, my surgery, two hospitalizations and increasing my circle of blogging friends.

Yes, blogging friends. No, they are not my best buddies. Usually, we don’t pick up the phone to see how one another is doing, but we may email. In fact, most I don’t know what their voice sounds like and I’ve never met them.

However, I still call them my friends.

I feel I can be myself with them in emails and just yell sometimes. Blogging buddies are new type of friends that electronic has made possible via email and the Internet. No one lives in the same time zone or probably has the same accent or spells or pronounces things as I do…..

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Hi from Dubai folks. Recently redundant Jim here proudly presenting to you my reason to be:

It’s all about the title, right? I’m not sure exactly how, where or why money will come into all this to earn a living but GO! Smell the flowers is my reason to be. Maybe naked flower promotions here in Dubai could be the place to start or would that land me in trouble?

“Do what you love and the money will follow” a drunk said to me in a bar once, before toppling over taking a tray of drinks with him. Well I’m giving it a GO! and after a knee jerk reaction of updating my C.V and trying to get another job I’ve decided I’d like to face up to the global recession here in Dubai by talking and writing about it. Time is conspiring against us all not to face up to the reality of economic change – have you seen the price of bread lately?

Should be an interesting ride and I’m lucky to have the moral support of the GSTF community here to help inspire countless people all over the world. Maybe my new circumstances will give me a bit more of this:

Comments welcomed and THANK YOU for your support. Let’s give it a GO!

Nearly time for lunch here in Dubai and quite fancy a what-do-you-call-it?,  as I’m rather hungry:

Do we know where all our processed for comes from? It’s for sale and consumed by others so it must be ok, right?

Food comments welcomed here – what are you having for lunch today and why? Do tell and save me a bit.

Well folks, time for more Flower Smeller badges to GO! to 5 more worthy folk from September 2008:

This badge serves to acknowledge others who are, in their own way, smelling the flowers.

They maybe regular visitors to the GO! Smell the flowers community, one of our founders blogs or someone that could contribute here who is yet to visit! Maybe they have recovered from an illness, written a book, made waves in the blogosphere, won the lottery, inspire others, made a major shift in their life, won promotion, quit the rat race, raising a family, discovering their greatness and on it GO!s as more examples from around the world start to surface. They may not even have an online presence at all – that’s where this award differs!

We’d like to present the honourary title of Flower Smeller to…..

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Well flower smellers, I’ve had some nights out in my time and here at the OSHO meditation resort in Pune, India with my open mind ramping up the old karma dollars, despite me being encouraged to have NO MIND since my arrival here! I’d like to give you my honest as-it-happened feedback on what is considered the most important, must attend event of anyones stay here.

The Evening meeting of the White Robe Brotherhood.

I welcome all pro / anti or indifferent OSHO comments following this article so I too can learn from my time here. It is a unique opportunity, according to the OSHO meditations handbook is to experience ‘alertness with no effort’ the essence of the meditative experience.

This is not a teaching, a doctrine, a creed; that’s why I can say anything. I am the most free person who has ever existed as far as saying anything is concerned. I can contradict myself in the same evening a hundred times, because it is not a speech, so it has not to be consistent. It is a totally different thing, and it will take time for the world to recognize that a tremendously differ­ent experiment was going on. Just in a moment, when I became silent, you become silent…. What remains is just a pure awaiting. You are not making any effort; neither am I making any effort. – OSHO

Sounds good – I’m in. Another day at the power plant for Homer, turn up and do nothing?

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Well folks, time for more Flower Smeller badges to GO! to 5 more worthy folk:

This badge serves to acknowledge others who are, in their own way, smelling the flowers.

They maybe regular visitors to this blog, one of our founders blogs or someone that could contribute here who is yet to visit! Maybe they have recovered from an illness, written a book, made waves in the blogosphere, won the lottery, inspiring others, made a major shift in their life, won promotion, quit the rat race, raising a family, discovering their greatness and on it GO!s as more examples from around the world start to surface. They may not even have an online presence at all – that’s where this award differs!

We’d like to present the honourary title of Flower Smeller to the following 5 who have either contributed to this community since the founders have been on board, have recently grabbed our attention in the blogosphere or are smelling their flowers in life in general. The 5 flowers smellers are as follows:

1) Sylvia & Mauro pressing on with their advert blog determined to smell their flowers.

2) Angela Stokes & Matt Monarch – inspiring people with their raw food lifestyle who we met recently in Thailand.

3) Flower regular Bo Snr who is keeping his cheerful outlook on life despite recent setbacks.

4) Ed Gajdel – one of the finest and highly acclaimed photographers in the world who we recently met in Toronto. Check his inspiring work out and you’re sure to spot a few familiar faces.

5) We met Celeste Shenck on a life coaching course in Paris – she’s a remarkable women who is currently enjoying a 2 week yoga retreat with her 83 year old mother.

These 5 and of course the founders of GO! Smell the flowers can now GO! award this badge to 5 other flower smellers of your choice! All we ask is when you do you contact us and let us know the 5 you choose so we can add them to the Flower Smeller section of this community and the flower smeller blogroll that is blossoming nicely!

Here are the list of rules to the blogs you are tagging for flower smellers & founders alike:

1. If you are awarded the flower smeller badge or are a founder of GO! Smell the flowers then pop the flower smeller badge up at your blog and award it to 5 others by writing a post with links to the 5 blogs or websites that you choose.

2. You can award this badge to a maximum of 5 people per month from now until eternity as and when you come across more flower smellers.

3. Link to this post so that people can find the origin of where the award started and find their way to this community.

4. Proudly display the Flower Smeller award with a link to the post that you wrote announcing your award.

5. All flower smellers – be prepared to be approached to write a 500 word account of yourself to feature in our 2009 book – The Flower Smellers that some of founders will be featuring in – here’s a few examples we prepared earlier, in PDF format for now over at The Flower Smellers page. We’ll be adding these recent 5 in due course. We’ve our ever increasing blogroll of ‘Flower Smellers’ that is blossoming nicely.

So, there we have it, well done to the latest five flower smellers! Please accept your award here in comments and then pay it forward and award it to 5 other flowers smellers of your choice – when you’ve awarded the badge do remember to contact us with the details. Cheers!

Which cartoon character as you most like and why?

DOH tell! Cheers.