Why is it so hard to break the barriers of suffering and forgive even long after the pain has disappeared ? Is it really something…
About 8 months ago, before I packed up my life and moved to Tasmania, a friend of mine gifted me a self help book called Journey of Me. I am sure that working through parts of that book was the catalyst for my creating a new life for myself and coming off anti-depressant…
Not My Day
Nothing to say
Mood is moody
Things keep breaking
Tests grades poor
Don’t like the score
“What are you talking about? I don’t do that!”
I have had a long-standing fascination with metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks. Rocks give the appearance of being…
Columbus Day, or Native American Day, or Discovery Day, or Indigenous People Day, has special meaning for…
I choose not to write right now.
I choose to play with the cat.
I choose to go outside.
I choose to work in the tiny green house we built where I still need to plant winter spinach.
You feel like giving up. You ask yourself why you even started and if it’s worth it to continue. You start to dream…
You know that the masses will be out when the weather finally turns it on.
Today was a beautiful 29 degrees in Perth and for a Sunday, the streets were packed!
This article is a translation from a discussion with a friend (with few arrangements). I found it interesting even though I don’t completely agree with his point of view.
Have you fought hard? Hard until you have no one by your side So hard you tire even of tears, so your tears dry upWhen your tears dry up, courage takes their place
I long for clarity.
I want to understand things completely, before I take a stab at anything.
If you like the kind of TV shows, where in each episode, a crew of experts in different areas would get together, do some research and somehow get all the…
I invited a good friend of mine to an art exhibition to play catch up today. The art exhibition was held in a boutique hotel and comprised of 20 different exhibits — from modern artists around the world.
I stare at those car keys. There is an inward battle ragging as I reach out to get them that causes me to stop. Not this time. The groceries are not…
The leaves are burnished bright in the low slant of this evening’s sun. It is October and soon they will be gone.
Beneath the tree a group of teenagers has gathered; too young for the pub, too old to be at home at this time on a weekend. Their voices rise between the trees, giddy with…
There are many, many options out there. You could target that market, build that product, or run that 5k. How you decide how to spend your time is not nearly as interesting as why you spend it that…
Over the last few years I’ve downloaded a few different games to my phone.
Some of them I deleted after less than a minute of playing. Some last a little longer, but not much longer and are usually gone within a few weeks…
On Tuesday I wrote about whether it was going to be one “of those” weeks.
As today is Friday I’m glad to say that it wasn’t. I was able to turn the week around.
I’ve got a lot figured out in the personal realm
Got some kids,
Me and my man at the helm;
What I can’t seem to work
Is not sounding sometimes like a jerk.
