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The Good Ones

What principles define how you live? Kindness, inclusion, respect, consideration, thoughtfulness, gentleness, understanding, tolerance. Which is why I find this world so hard to tolerate From having to hit the car horn if someone dares to want to share a road with you, or refuse to move out of your way instantly in a trafficContinueContinue reading “The Good Ones”

Being me

What have you been putting off doing? Why? It’s been a year of change for a person who finds some changes more challenging than others. I’ve tackled three hard things this year. I find personal change to be a no brainer, as my husband would say. The only person reacting to my life is meContinueContinue reading “Being me”

Age Two Apparently

When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)? But certainly by 9! My mother said that I was born 40, and it was my perfect age when I got there, I loved it. I was never popular as a young person as adults made sense to me. I wasContinueContinue reading “Age Two Apparently”

I Am What I Am

Photo by Jeffrey Czum on Pexels.com I tossed up whether to include this poemas it’s far from being one of my best. I decided that I would as it representsnot just the discovery of poetry, but howoften poets begin and hone their skillsworking out what’s going on inside them.I would have been desperate when IContinueContinue reading “I Am What I Am”

Peace

Photo by Odd Falch on Pexels.com This is the first poem I ever wrote. I had no idea I was a poet, and then one day I knew that I just had to get a notebook and start writing something down, it turned out the something was poetry. All forms of creative art can comeContinueContinue reading “Peace”

Numerical Stress

Photo by Black ice on Pexels.com Until I went to college to do a course preparing mature students for university, I was terrified of maths. When they tested me I did get my highest ever marks in maths, but they said my workings out were extraordinarily complex. 17.5% = 10% + 5% + 2.5%! TheContinueContinue reading “Numerical Stress”

A Cause

If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to? I would invest it in social housing in this country. By invest I don’t mean for profit, I would invest in lives. It would be a drop in the ocean, but why help one person when you can help many.ContinueContinue reading “A Cause”

Listen

Photo by Magda Ehlers on Pexels.com There is a love that flows through the universe Just waiting for you to listen Waiting for you to stop And hear It is infinite and infinitesimal It can flow through you And around you If you pay attention It is not a thing of belief Or logic ItContinueContinue reading “Listen”

I Would Fail

What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail. On a normal basis failure doesn’t bother me too much, beyond the blow to my hopes and ego of course. It’s how we learn to get things right. It’s a good thing really as I’m far more interested in why I’m working (helpingContinueContinue reading “I Would Fail”

We Understand and Know???

Photo by Vera Arsic on Pexels.com Communication is the hardest thing that any two humans can attempt. That might sound like a wildly dramatic, overblown statement, but it’s also true. From the many wars and conflicts currently afflicting our planet, through inter-political party arguments, to bully bosses, fractured families, and pseudo friendships, communication is fraughtContinueContinue reading “We Understand and Know???”