Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness and the complexion of courtesy have faded away.” Abraham Lincoln For much of your early life, if things go according to plan, your world expands. Family, …
“Should we lose each other in the shadows of the evening trees, Ill wait for you and should I fall behind, wait for me” Bruce Springsteen. Sometimes I don’t even notice. I just wake up, shower and brew my coffee alone, feeling steady. Then someone else arises and speaks and suddenly I am irritated, short …
“But store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal.” Matt 6:20 Even as a child many of us implicitly defined success as having strength, power and influence. We seem to instinctively want others to be like us and to accept …
For someone who is isolating already by choice, Lockdown is not much trouble. It is basically ‘steady as she goes’. Similarly, if life has got you down and people grate on you like gravel, then being told to stay at home is almost a bonus. Lockdown however, is definitely an incredibly difficult time for many, …
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I’ll tell you what amuses me…the phrase lying dormant. To be honest, I don’t find the phraseamusing in all its guises, just the one where it is used to describe Depression or PTSD.It must be a phrase first used in that context by someone with little or no concept of mental illhealth. I’m sure they …
It is hard to explain. It’s difficult to create an explanation of what Depression is like that will resonate because we all experience the world differently. We all have different skills and abilities that will make understanding easier for some and not for others. Still, isn’t part of the purpose of writing to put difficult experience into words that …
