2020
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On Clutter
Our clutter isn’t relegated only to material things.We clutter our lives with destructive relationships, careers, obligations, rituals, busyness, minutiae, news, media, politics, gossip, drama, rumours. We clutter our attention with glowing screens.We clutter our creativity with distractions.We clutter our free time with trivialities.We clutter our desires with attachments. Our lives are brimming with existential clutter,…
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Christmas colours
The nights are fair drawin’ in, eh! Walking a black dog at night can be a little tricky, and while he doesn’t get off the lead we do have a light-up collar for him, just in case he makes a bid for freedom (to chase a cat, or a bird, or a leaf …). And…
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Staying Positive
I’m staying positive. I’m fighting the fear. I’ve been telling myself this for a while now, repeating it like a mantra. It’s not a command (stay positive!) but a statement of how I’m feeling, even when I’m not feeling it; I’m staying positive. I’m very much of the belief that you can fake it until…
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Hope trumps hate
Trump loses. That’s the headline. Biden will be President. That’s the REAL headline, the one to focus on. Yet I find myself less than elated. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad that America will no longer have a fascist as a President, and I’m clinging desperately to the notion that the hope that triumphed over…
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Life continues
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ain’t that the truth. It seems like no time at all since the start of August, and in the wake of my Dad’s passing – actually can I pause here, my Dad died, he is dead,…
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Happily Mediocre
It’s World Mental Health Day, which falls at the end of a rather crap week for me, but which weirdly has re-enforced some of things I’ve developed throughout the last few months, and reminded me why I did them in the first place. What are you good at? What have you learned and practiced? I…