A Handful of Words – For your amusement

After ’96 Vandam’ by Gerald Stern – Three attempts

Aftermath of the UK Election – Recognising the challenges ahead

Amy Yin – Dancing, dreaming and dying

An A-Z of Equality – Equal rights and equality of opportunity is everything

Aqua – Delightful droplets

Arrival – Arrival is now

Arriving Slowly – From the legacy of damp

Balanced Tulip Glass – Water continues on

Balancing – Light and Dark

Brave Little Heart – A leap to freedom

Change Will Keep Coming For You – But you can be ready for it

Changing The Guard – Marking a new beginning

Choices – Driven by experience or expediency

Comfit Comforts – The sweetness of a black tongue

Coming Up for Breath – Fresh perspectives are a bonus

Commuting – Wish it was the weekend

Dear Bullies – Open letter to the bullies I have had in my life

Disconnected – No longer on the planet

Doctor, Doctor – Just exactly what health advice are you giving out

Drifting – Slowly escaping

Face – A consideration of physiognomy

Fatherland – Occupying the territory

From Looking to Listening – Flapping my ears for text

Generosity and Kindness – Creating contentment all around

Getting It Right – And making it work well for you

Gills and Fins – For children everywhere

Glaikit – Or embracing the slow life?

His Five Aspects of Self – Ecological, Interpersonal, Narrative/Extended, Private, Conceptual

How to Make Sure Things Get Done – Despite the distractions

How to Make Your Fish Ride a Bicycle – When all it wants to do is climb ladders

I Want To Be – Not yet certain

I Will Be Right Back – After my summer break

In My Garden There is a Tree – Full of red berries

In The City – Choking on the dust

Island of Silence – Tranquil existence

Learning to Soar – Breaking free

Life – And how it sounds

Living in The UK – Week beginning 3 June 2024

Living The Reality – On Relationships

Look After Yourself – Don’t just read about it or think about it

Love Beyond a Box – A tale of two realities

Making Fun of The Self – On talking whilst alone

Managing Energy – Incorporating all kinds of days

Melting Clock Face – Slow is the way

Mouse and Fraser – Who will win this war?

Moving Forward – And feeling very positive

Mr Robinson’s Razor – And something to shave away

My Dad – And other forms of silence

My Sunday – With shadows of the past

My Voice – My voice is Scottish

Nine-and-Three Quarters Things I Do Every Day – What else am I to do?

Not Perfect – But I think it is ok

Not So Cute – But absolute skill

Note To Self – Moving on

Notes from Dispatches – ‘Welcome Week’

Old Cronies – Friends for life

Participation – Now

Pockets – Full of memories

Pondering Life – And how it relates to ongoing reading and writing in 2024

Postcard Home – Stuck on earth

Procrastination Busting – How to break the dam we have built

Quercus Robur – The joy of English oak

Red Armchair – Existing as a magic portal

Reminders – Of how we fall and rise

Renewed, Refreshed, Replenished – Leaving Summer break behind

Repetition – To follow or not to follow?

Respect – And accept difference

Ripples of a Positive Thought – Combo poem one

Ruby Prompts Prompt one – Fraser composition

Searching for Love (A.C.R.O.S.T.I.C.)

Seneca, Asthma and Me – Making a connection over the centuries

Something – Anything

Streetball – Kids with skills

Sun Shining Down – And winter gone

Taking Time to Tick – Meandering moments

Tanks on the Hill, Guns on the Streets – And amphibious vehicles on the beach

Tea In An Instant – Refreshing

Ten Ways NOT to Write Listicles – Excitement does not wait within

Thank-you Everyone – Much appreciated

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The Cold and Dark – I see the snow that isn’t there

The Day Efter The Morra – A poem in Scots

The Demise of Old Lions – As birds take flight

The Good Life – This old jalopy keeps on going

The Gradual Groan – And the hacks in your bones

The Journey There – And the rhythm…

The Only Truth – Inspired by ‘Kathy’s Song’ by Paul Simon

The Streets – Are not paved with gold

The Value of Ignorance – And how it enriches my life

The Wide Blue Ocean – Contained within a BIC pen

Thinking About Writing for Wellbeing – And what it means to me

This Is The Day – The day for…

Tree of Words

Tugging Cloths – Create your own art

Turning A New Leaf – Nothing is what it seems

Underground – Labyrinthine burrows

Walking in Bristol (UK) – And finding carvings from trees in Purdown

We Had – All that we needed

Writing for Wellbeing – I take a step forward this week

Writing For Wellbeing – Helps me become a better human