Immanuel Kant, apart from being a witty reference in Monty Python’s Bruce’s Philosophers Song, was also, not unsurprisingly, a German Philosopher. One of his more famous quotes was ‘Rules for happiness: Someone to love, something to do, something to hope for’. This notion has been credited to just about everyone from Mr Squiggle to …
Sometimes I write because…well I just need to. If I can describe how it feels, capture in words the essence of pain and fear, then in some small way I have control over it. Sometimes I wake and the whole world has fallen away. No ground left on which to make a stand. I am …
Dumb things- Good intentions I’ve said some dumb things in my time. I may not have asked a largish woman how long till the baby is due, but I’ve dropped some clangers that left the room stunned and silent. We all do it occasionally, and we’ve all had it done to us. My mate often …
Covid has been tough. There are very few people who have not been affected by it in one form or another. To consider the effect of the illness on individuals, the countless deaths, business closures and the separation of loved ones for extended periods is enough to break your heart. Added to this, the effect …
Sometimes the voices in our life get too loud, or too numerous. Perhaps both. Sometimes everything comes in waves that overwhelm us, one after the other, until we struggle to breath. This becomes even more problematic when we are busy keeping all of life’s ‘balls in the air’ and don’t notice the tension rising. One …
There is something valuable to be learnt from having a catastrophic breakdown along life’s highway. Grinding to a halt and throwing your hands up in defeat publicly, is never easy. In fact it is highly embarrassing, dangerous and completely awful if the truth be known. The beauty that comes from such a horrific challenge, however, …
The thing about young children is that they genuinely believe they are the centre of the universe. Anyone who has ever been a parent will confirm that their child had a self-centric view of the world, and understandably so. Children need to be fed, protected and guided and this process takes up much of …
How to choose correctly. Way back in time, just after humankind crawled out of the primordial soup, a simple man named Ug walked without fear, right up to a Saber Tooth Tiger. All of Ug’s friends watched with curiosity as Ug was immediately and voraciously devoured. At about 3pm on the same day, the notion …
An allegory of sorts The attack Here it comes again…the downward spiral of doubt and judgement. So many poor choices… Sad, ambient music begins on cue, like a soundtrack, as if to capture the mood. So many poor choices taken out of fear or self doubt. Always the safe option…’the road most travelled by’,,,never the …
