Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
I was pinned down. “I’m not going to win this struggle,” I thought. “I’ll just have to let him do it.” B was a nice guy. Like all us humans, he was flawed and a bit of a dick in his own way, but nothing too serious. In fact, from memory, he seemed to have …
I’m pretty sure I know what’s wrong with the world. Like many of the best ideas that fly through the ether to settle on a worthy recipient, it came to me when I was lying on the couch in the sun. Here it is - there aren’t enough Grown-Ups in the world. But, if those …
I didn’t expect that I would find myself writing again on the subject of my ninety year old mother’s passing away. I thought that I covered all I needed to say on that in my previous piece. I had my flash of grief, and acknowledged that I missed mum - job done. But I find …
Mum has gone. It wasn’t unexpected - she was ninety years old. But it is unexpected how much I grieve her passing. The last eight years of looking after her and dad - he died four years ago - were so, so hard, that I thought I would only feel relief at finally being released …
Some time ago, during a bit of self-analysis - which is always a lottery about how well that will or won’t go - I concluded that one of my problems was that I got stuck with a high empathy index. Couple that with an over-developed sense of responsibility, and I was a sponge for other people’s problems, and …
Late Sunday morning – the ratbag tabby is in his usual curled up position of slumber in the corner of the couch on the fluffy cushion, which is somewhat flattened now by ‘occupational overuse syndrome’. I’m wasting time on Facebook, when I’d actually prefer to be doing something more constructive. Suddenly, violence breaks out next …
Singing with heart - showing how it's done, the New Zealand anthem is sung by three Porirua schoolgirls after hearing a shocking rendition by an American singer (who has since graciously apologised) at a recent game in Denver between NZ and England. Gotta hand it to these girls - they nailed it. https://www.facebook.com/Le.ART.NZ/videos/1726501194134150/
Battleaxe – a formidably aggressive older woman (my interpretation: no longer gives a flying feck) Bitch - a female dog, wolf, fox, or otter. Or, a pejorative slang word for a person—usually a woman—who is belligerent, unreasonable, malicious, a control freak, rudely intrusive or aggressive. Until I sought out the above definitions, I was aspiring …
Ladies and gentlemen of Ireland, you did us proud. For those ladies and gentlemen who still might not get it, here’s the message - if it’s not your uterus, then keep quiet with your anti-abortion opinions. Have opinions by all means, that’s your right, but keep them to yourselves. Apart from other anti-abortionists, no-one wants …
Getting older is a privilege. Trite though that saying might be, it doesn’t make it any less true. Not everyone makes it, so if we find ourselves amongst those who do, we’re privileged. We have successfully navigated life, and got to this place. The navigating might have been well planned and executed, it might have …
Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been - David Bowie.
Some of this. And some of that.
"The wound is the place where the light enters you" RUMI
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