Category Life
For the stuff about my life
Adolfo Quezada
Reading time: < 1 min We do not need power to be compassionate, but we need compassion to be powerful. Adolfo Quezada
On Clutter
Reading time: 4 mins 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,…
Christmas colours
Reading time: 3 mins 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…
Staying Positive
Reading time: 4 mins 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…
Hope trumps hate
Reading time: 3 mins 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…