Sometimes happiness arrives on a sunbeam, seemingly out of nowhere, and unexpected joy takes over our lives. Other times life is so challenging we wouldn’t recognise happiness if the sunbeam smacked us straight between the eyes! Imagine that! Drowning in focus It sounds like an urban myth but it’s actually true, that what your focusContinueContinue reading “Creating Happiness”
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A Happy Mind
What does freedom mean to you? If you feel healthy and your mind is happy and peaceful, with the emphasis on the happy, what more could you possibly want? You may be thinking ‘enough money to pay my bills’ or ‘everyone I love to be the same and they’re not’, that includes pets of course.ContinueContinue reading “A Happy Mind”
A Lesson from Loo Cleaner
Thought I’d give you a laugh. I’ve see a foaming toilet cleaner advertised for at least two years, and earlier this week I decided to bite the bullet and give it a try. It arrived today, to no small sense of excitement, and I readied myself to lift the lid on the toilet, pour inContinueContinue reading “A Lesson from Loo Cleaner”
Numbers!
I’m concerned by my numbersThey’re not adding up goodYet when I started to writeI didn’t need numbersTo know where I stoodNow I need all the numbersI can get on my statsOr my mood as a writerGets ever so flatAnd I worry I’m boringAnd worry I’m blandOr is there a secretI don’t understandI know that aContinueContinue reading “Numbers!”
Not Just Public Figures
What public figure do you disagree with the most? Politicians are an unbiased general disagreement situation for me. Too much posturing, firefighting, and boring sound bites. Too little real action. I also get fed up with celebrity ‘influencers’ especially those interfering in politics. However, those who put feet on the ground and actively try toContinueContinue reading “Not Just Public Figures”
Retirement Plus Writing
What is your career plan? I never had a career. I wasn’t allowed to go to college or university so I didn’t have a chance to widen out my life experience after a very narrow upbringing, and find out what I was good at and might like to do. When my brother was 16 myContinueContinue reading “Retirement Plus Writing”
Anton and Giovanni
What was the last live performance you saw? Saw them in Birmingham last year. Pretty good. Love them both but the staging could have been far better and the sound at the Symphony Hall is terrible. We also saw Eddie Izzard and if I heard 5 sentences that was it. I do wear hearing aids,ContinueContinue reading “Anton and Giovanni”
Nothing
What do you do to be involved in the community? The Covid lockdowns were a huge plus for me, of people hasn’t been ill and died I would have described them as one of my best times. Obviously I can’t do that because I also cannot forget the terrible losses. It was during those lockdownsContinueContinue reading “Nothing”
Will We?
As I started reading this poem to post it, I realised that it’s about more than romantic love. It’s about life itself. It can be translated to ask questions about race, skin colour, gender, religion, philosophy, attitude, respect, consideration, acceptance. It is about the entire way we as humans connect with this world, and theContinueContinue reading “Will We?”
Nothing
What’s a job you would like to do for just one day? What’s the point of one day? I guess if you hated it then a day is good, if you loved it then a day would be heartbreaking; unless you’d be allowed to stay if you liked it. I don’t think in terms ofContinueContinue reading “Nothing”
Deb Hawken - Amorah 