Mind your language
Words, words, words
I’m having some coaching at this weird liminal time where this phase of motherhood is ending.
This week my coach used the word ‘strategy’ and I had a ‘yuk’ reaction to it which he questioned. Then, the word ‘target’ came up and I yukked again.
So we got curious and for my … Read more
Otters, words and buy a share of Babbinswood Farm
Otter
I found a dead otter by the side of the road the other day. It looked peaceful. Its front legs were crossed gently as if relaxing. It had a face like a dog. It didn’t seem crushed or injured so I’m not convinced it had been hit by a car, but they why was … Read more
Words for 2022
I am gathering words for 2022 because:
Language is how we humans understand, mediate, construct and control our reality, it is how we communicate with ourselves, each other and the more than human world. Changing language is powerful, we can use it to:
I want to re-member
– to put things back together, maybe … Read more
Have You Lost Your Moxie?
As the winter nights draw in my poor screen deprived children are allowed to watch the occasional film and tonight it was a DVD (how quaint) of ‘Night at the Museum 2’, I haven’t watched 1 but I caught on pretty fast; I’m glad to see my excessive higher education was not for nothing.
They … Read more