Suffering, wisdom and compassion
A couple of people got in touch after the last blog wondering how and if they should tell their story. These on one hand are normal people, raising families, going to work, living life; nothing special. On the other hand, these are people who have really lived through some hard stuff and come out the … Read more
Your Story
- If I asked you to tell me your life story, what would you tell me?
- Which bits would you leave out? Which bits would you embellish? What would you add in?
Autobiography is the art of telling your story, of fictionalizing the truth, because the very act of writing means we are putting experiences into … Read more
Celebrating the menopause
I’ve just started my period.
Is that too much information?
You see, the thing is, I’m really pleased to have started my period because I’m getting to ‘that age’, the age where soon I won’t be having periods, but where I might soon be having hot sweats, insomnia, headaches, lapses of memory, mood swings, loss … Read more
Sea Lessons
We’re by the sea, a sea warm enough to swim in, float on and dabble in and it’s been teaching us lessons.
Here are some of the lessons the sea has been teaching me, practical, emotional and otherwise:
Teach your children to swim and make sure you can swim yourself
One of our group did … Read more
Death at our shoulder
Death seems to be having a feeding frenzy this year. David Bowie, Caroline Aherne, Alan Rickman, Muhammad Ali, Prince, Victoria Lane, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Daniels and Terry Wogan to name some. These are the people and names I grew up with. My mum loved Terry Wogan and he was the breakfast time voice, after Jimmy … Read more
Sweat Lodge For Peace
I’ve been going to a sweat lodge.
A sweat lodge is at one level just a tent with hot rocks in it in the middle of a field filled with about 30 hot, sweaty, muddy people, most of whom don’t know each other.
At another level it is one of the most deeply moving and … Read more