Life is Not Forever
The last time you met up with friends did you take a group selfie? As human beings we like to hold onto happy moments. I know some of us old romantics have a box filled with old knick-knacks, old tickets, postcards, albums. With the pandemic still in the air (quite literally) there’s something reassuring about
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Be Natural
You are tired, and that tiredness runs in the marrow of your bones. We have schedules that divide up our time in a way that the skies above our head don’t recognise. This is how it is, we wake because of alarms not because of restfulness; we take one mind and try to do five
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Let Hope Flourish
Hospitals are places of vulnerability. Paper gown, illness, no visitors, blank walls, and the smiles of strangers offering you tea. Humanity and Humaness, exacerbated by this Coronovirus Pandemic. A healthcare worker tells me she’s started praying. She’s not the first. The stress, anxiety, trauma of seeing people dying because they cannot catch their breath, has
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Find a Weather Friend
It may help us if we all had Weather Friends in our lives; people we can bother suddenly to say look at the moon, look at the bubblegum skies, let’s take a walk in midnight rain. Between government mandated walks to keep us sane and cancelled holidays abroad, I think right now we could all
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