In My Garden There Is A Tree – Full of red berries

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I live in a place where the interior can often be disappointing, but the exterior performs so much better in the shape of the plants, shrubs, lawns and magnificent, mature trees contained within the gardens. One of those trees is looking particularly magnificent right now. It is a holly tree, or some kind of hybrid, […]

Coming Up For Breath – Fresh perspectives are a bonus

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Having spent my first 3 weeks on my university course, and working with new people, re-establishing a regular writing practice (albeit for university purposes), I am already beginning to make decisions, at least in my head, about where I want to take my writing, both within the course, and after (hopefully) completing the course in […]

The Wide Blue Ocean – Contained within a Bic pen

Image of a box containing blue, BIC Cristal original, pens, with three of the pens lying in front of the box, used to illustrate the post.

Somewhere or another, I once wrote that I bow down in reverence to my blue BIC pen. To many, that may have seemed like a trivialisation of values to suggest that a blue BIC pen should hold such importance in my life, but it does. I would describe the physical characteristics of the pen, such […]

Getting It Right – And making it work well for you

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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 […]

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

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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 […]