To sleep, perchance to...
...have weird people trying to eat you? I'm pretty sure that the Shakespeare quote involved the word 'dream' but my latest nocturnal meanderings by my subconscious were not of the peaceful type! I'm a…
"If I think back, I get depressed. If I think ahead, I get afraid."
I came across this quote on the 'Humans of New York' page. If you've not encountered it I'd recommend it. The picture and short quote - and that's all it was - can be found here. It sometimes feels …
Ooooh.....squirrel!
My biggest personal productivity shortcoming - and trust me, I have a few - is probably my ability to get easily distracted. It used be procrastination, but I gradually managed to get that at least a…
Dandelion Breaks and how to avoid them
I have always been a great fan of Berke Breathed's cartoon strip 'Bloom County'. For those of you whose life is as yet incomplete, lacking reporting from the strange world of Bloom County, I refer you…
To Peace....
...and before everyone leaps up, glasses and coffee mugs in hands, and shouts 'To Peace' back to me, I'm not offering a toast here! I'm thinking that it's about time we made 'peace' a verb. Henri Nouw…
You've not walked in my shoes but we use the same shoe-shop
There's an old story that goes something like "Never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes; you'll have his shoes and you're a mile away from him!" OK, that's not the real version - the …
Due Diligence....
My reading habits - OK, I tend to read everything that's put in front of me, from books to the backs of toothpaste tubes - lead me in to all sorts of places. As part of my daily spiritual development…
FOMO and FOHMO
As always, late to the picnic, but I recently encountered the acronymn FOMO. It's not a new type of washing powder, but short for Fear Of Missing Out. It's defined in Wikipedia as : Fear of missing o…
The girl with the parasol
I'm a bit of a film buff - probably not as much as I once was but I love old films, and unsurprisingly Citizen Kane is up there in my list of favourites. There's a scene in there which I've always lov…
Hope springs eternal...
One of my favourite films is 'The Shawshank Redemption'. There are a number of reasons for this - one is that I'm a big fan of the novella it's based on - 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption' …