What quality do you value most in a friend? I’ve watched the Philip Schofield situation unfold with horror this week. So many accusations, no supporting evidence that he did anything more than have an adult to adult affair. Caught in the fallout from his brother’s crimes. And what happens? His so called friends run toContinue reading “Humanity Plus Authenticity”
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The Emmett Technique
As I’m sitting here in the sun waiting for my husband to finish his Emmett treatment, I fold that I didn’t feel like playing solitaire on my phone. What should I do? I asked myself. Then I thought ‘why not a blog on Emmetts, after all you are supposed to be here to help.’ NothingContinue reading “The Emmett Technique”
Marketing Plan?
I just discovered this poem that I clearly wrote about my work at a time when someone somewhere was trying to persuade me to join a marketing bandwagon and turn my clients into profit. Yes I know it’s sensible, no I can’t think that way, first and foremost people matter. I hold my beliefs inContinue reading “Marketing Plan?”
Too Many Lonely Coffees
I’ve sat in many coffee shops nursing cups of coffee Watching people interacting in an ordinary way My loneliness is crippling but no one gives a toffee Somehow they know (how could they know?) That I was born this way Fate played an icy game when I came into this world Setting fingers of indifferenceContinue reading “Too Many Lonely Coffees”
Dancing Star
I became known as Deb Dancing Star due to my love of a saying by Nietzsche: “One must have chaos in oneselfin order to give birth to a dancing star.” I don’t entirely agree with that quotation now, but I still treasure it as one of the sayings that changed my life. In my spiritualContinue reading “Dancing Star”
Why?
Here is a waterfall. It hasn’t decided to be a waterfall. The water was there, the drop was there, the water found its way there and then the only option was to flow downwards. Gravity is in charge. When you want to make changes in your life you should stop and work out why youContinue reading “Why?”
Self-ish
It’s unfashionable to be selfish Unnatural not to care more for others than yourself But you have needs and wishes that aren’t compatible with mine Which means that either I care more for you than me And you care more for me than you Or you can’t be who you are And I can’t beContinue reading “Self-ish”
Things I Thought I Needed
When I was young I felt like no one and nothing. I’d dreamed of going to university, flying the nest, travelling the world, and having a great career as an interpreter in foreign climes. Instead my parents took me out of school aged 16 because I had one bad year where school was boring andContinue reading “Things I Thought I Needed”
Youth is Wasted on the Young
Like most young people I never thought I would ever utter such sacrilegious words. Now I’m finally young I understand how true they are. I’m 65 years young, and next month I become a state pensioner, don’t ask me how that happened. It follows a prediction of my mother’s: one moment you’ll be 21 andContinue reading “Youth is Wasted on the Young”
Communication
I can send out my thoughts and touch a smile I can send out my heart and find emotion I can love over miles across continents I don’t need faces to recall or voices to remember I only need to know Where you are Who you are That you are Deb Hawken 20th Century
Deb Hawken 