Getting It Right – And making it work well for you
You will have challenges in your life that you have to overcome, and it doesn’t matter if they are bigger or smaller than the challenges other people have to face. If it’s a challenge, it’s a challenge, and therefore requires some attention. Add to that the fact that there is absolutely no point in comparing […]
Managing Energy – Incorporating all kinds of days
Kim Witten, PhD wrote a great article on Medium entitled “Stop Trying to Manage Your Time”, in which she gave us lots of alternatives to try-out. I particularly liked Dr Witten’s focus on managing energy rather than time, and her reminder that small actions can have a huge impact on our wellbeing (She gave the example of removing a […]
Choices – Driven by experience or expediency
“Only the madman is absolutely sure.” — Robert Anton Wilson Many things fail to launch in our lives. As we grow older, we realise just how long that list is. Even the things we think we know quite well, might just be a small subset of all there is to know on the subject. I […]
Walking in Bristol (UK) – And finding carvings from trees in Purdown
* Photographs by Sandy are provided with permission to use in this post When I encountered Purdown during the Autumn of last year, I was quite taken by the bright sunshine, the clouds and the great views, finding a huge tract of land, running down into Stoke Gifford and Stoke Park in one direction, and […]
Writing for Wellbeing – I take a step forward this week
This week, I was accepted on to an MA degree programme on Creative Writing and Wellbeing at Teesside University in the UK. This is not a subject that I am unfamiliar with, particularly as I have spent the last 6 years in a writing group for wellbeing, initially run expertly and independently in UK Bristol […]
Making Fun of The Self – On talking whilst alone
Some might think I talk a lot less living on my own. Maybe I do, but it seems otherwise to me. I constantly ask questions of myself and the inanimate objects within the room. And I have full-blown conversations through the window with the birds, the cats and the occasional rat crossing the lawn. The […]
Nine-and-Three Quarters Things I Do Every Day – What else am I to do?
Just pausing to poke some fun at myself…… Breathe — as long as I remember to take the meds and attach the headset at night Moan about something — I don’t think I’m very good at it, despite working at it for so long — I could just go on and on and on explaining […]
Change Will Keep Coming For You – But you can be ready for it
We are, by our very nature, resistant to change. And when we get older, it seems that we have a reputation of being even slower to adapt. That may be true for some people, and perhaps even more true for the very old, but there are many of us growing older, seeking new opportunities for […]
Dear Bullies – Open letter to the bullies I have had in my life
Dear Bullies You have been many in my life, some of you have beaten me, sometimes because I was the smallest, and easy to pick on, other times because I was the one who couldn’t run away (because I had no breath to do so), many times for not supporting your football team — worse still, for […]
A Handful of Words – For your amusement
Abundance — A rival form of dance to that of Morris Dancing, often performed with food items as props (real meaning — plenty, large quantity). Ajillytea — A type of hot drink valued by older people for improving their movements (see also ‘Mohbillytea’). Annasteeja — Where people now store their tea bags, named after the first person to […]