This is a question I have often pondered and I think that we are all creative to a degree but there is always a choice. The creative path is presented to us, but it doesn’t force itself on us. For it to take root in us, we have to say yes, come and turn myContinueContinue reading “Are we all creative?”
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Living with Type One – What it looks like
Note: I think there may be quite a bit of type 1 jargon in here. Apologies for that. Also a normal blood sugar (what we’re aiming for) is 4-8. I haven’t written that much about type 1 diabetes on here although I have intended to but two of the poems about Type One diabetes inContinueContinue reading “Living with Type One – What it looks like”
Space to Dream
A shortened version of this appeared in Third Way in April 2014: https://thirdway.hymnsam.co.uk/editions/april-2014/features/space-to-create.aspx It is rare to have the hush of an empty house all to myself. But right now all I can hear is the hum of the computer screen, the creak of a door being slammed outside, the footsteps of the cat coming inContinueContinue reading “Space to Dream”
Some Thoughts on Winter
Some thoughts on Winter I don’t know about you but I don’t think that I was made for winter. My feet can’t cope with the cold, my shoulders feel permanently hunched over. I feel like I can’t relax for half the year. I think January and February are hard for lots of reasons. Gone areContinueContinue reading “Some Thoughts on Winter”
On Hope by Anne Lamott
I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t giveContinueContinue reading “On Hope by Anne Lamott”
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