The transformative power of yoga
This is the first podcast in a series where I find out about what people love to do, what the ‘thing’ is that matters most to them, how they got into it and what it means to them.
I should have declared at the start of this episode that Ceri is the person who got … Read more
2020 Vision
2020 Vision
2020 has definately been a year when I saw things with more clarity and sharpness. The unconscious trance, or denial I had been … Read more
loneliness and social inequity
Covid has caused loneliness, isolated us all in our homes, kept us away from each other. Get people back into work to improve their mental health.
School closures have caused social inequity and the sooner we get the kids back into schools the better to close that gap.
What bollocks.
We were never lonely before? … Read more
Shop less, drive less, save your sanity and save the world
Lock- down saved us time and money (if we had work)
How many of you have hardly spent anything during lock-down apart from on food?
So many people I have spoken to have told me how much money they have saved, how little they have spent and how they have realised that most of what … Read more
Autumn Queen
Autumn is here and this year my son hasn’t written a poem about school sucking the school out of him and I haven’t written a poem about time being strangled as I have done before:
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Time strangled,
Lies withering on the floors
Covered with the ocre leaves of August’s mourning,
Cramped, dark, confined,
Overwhelmed
I have been feeling overwhelmed. It doesn’t happen very often, but yesterday it did.
I have been using all my time managment tools: urgents and importants, big rocks and little rocks and none of it was working.
Feeling overwhelmed is a bit like being lost in the fog; I know there is nothing else … Read more