Have you ever heard the saying ‘Calm as a millpond’? Have you known people who seemed to be always in control, despite the circumstances that surround them? Some people live life like an edited photograph. They only show the world what they think the world wants to see. The impression they leave is airbrushed, together, …
If anything is a multi faceted thing, it would be identity. Many have argued that identity is beyond our control and to some extent this is true. We have no choice about when, where and into what circumstances we are born. All key factors in identity. Added to this, if we live an essentially honest …
I wander through those places like a ghost. Meandering about in the past, expecting to find some value I missed the first time. Up and down pathways I trudge, yearning to see a long dead relative or a friend to guide me, but they are not coming back. All that is left are empty streets …
The theory is that if you think about a problem long enough, you can come up with a solution. It is an appealing idea to believe that if you focus on an issue long enough, it will go away. This approach to dealing with things is called rumination. Rumination, simply put, is the thinking error …
You feel it when the wind howls outside your window, trying to get in. It is there when the rain crashes against the glass like dive bombers in a war. While the darkness surrounds you and the dull greyness covers you like sickly, cold skin, you crawl deeper into your bed. Tired and sore, you …
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, …
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Bishop Desmond Tutu My father’s aged, yellow papers are stored in an old bookcase. Typed references and substantial achievements recorded in hand written calligraphy on parchment like scroll. Water stained apprenticeship qualifications and a Teaching …
“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.” Alfred Lord Tennyson Sadness hurts, but it is a very healthy feeling. Depression …
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Sadness and depression are related. Sadness comes like the rain. When things are dark and the earth is cracked, raindrops fall. Despite the inconvenience of needing to prepare yourself for a wet day, you cope, because you know the rain is only temporary. Necessary even. A day or two, a week, but then it’s gone …
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