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Today or Everyday?

What is one word that describes you? Today – full Cat Mother mode. Low. Frazzled. Worried. Most days – happy and content. Everyday – it clearly depends. At the centre of it all? Kind. Deb xx

At the edge of HumanityThere is a spaceA gap representing a choiceLife has assaulted youBeaten you backDestroyed your youthful dreamsLeft you bereftAngryDisappointedDisillusionedBroken?You feel outside hopeWorthlessTrodden down by the success of othersDiminished by being differentYou’re all wrong in this worldFor any number of reasonsThat don’t exist anywhereOther than in the minds of thoseWho make themselves feelContinueContinue reading “The Edge of Humanity”

Odd but True

What was the best compliment you’ve received? I’ve been complimented on my writing. My book has several amazing fans, one of whom sleeps with it beside their bed, a close friend says it’s the only book they’ve ever read 3 times. My sister-in-law’s sister said it was awesome in a note. That means the world.ContinueContinue reading “Odd but True”

Oldness

Oldness is a natural state of life if you’re lucky. Getting old is optional. The trouble is that the world keeps telling you you’re old rather than celebrating that. You get treated like an old banger rather than the shiny new cars that adorn the driveways of the youthful and allegedly vibrant. Those old bangersContinueContinue reading “Oldness”

Depends on the Country

You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? In the UK car. In Australia aeroplane. In America a mixture of the two or an RV. With UK traffic you might think I’d say train, but if the staff aren’t on strike, or the trains aren’t cancelled or running late it’s aContinueContinue reading “Depends on the Country”

Me

Who is the most confident person you know? My life story wouldn’t encourage you to think that I would be confident. Years of acute anxiety most certainly didn’t make me look confident. Anything but. I was clearly a quivering wreck. Yet somehow, underneath all that, I could get up on a stage and act, orContinueContinue reading “Me”

The Rules

There are rules you know!Depending on where we’re fromWe have to hate each otherNothing else is possibleOr sensibleDepending on our skin colourThere are rules that we must followJudgements to be madeAn entire shade placed in one categoryOf right or wrongDepending on our body structureWe must be one thing or the otherNothing else is rightNo authenticContinueContinue reading “The Rules”

Connection

What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? There are several aspects to negative feelings. The emotions created by the life you’re living. Unpleasant actions of others that result in feeling that we’re worthless, useless, or undeserving. Aspects where our life wasn’t in our control when we were young, and that’s having aContinueContinue reading “Connection”

Message to the Children

I love you bothEquallyUniquelyBut how to prove itTo you who areSo perfectly differentHow to explainThat love comes in many formsLike youAnd one formIs no more nor less beautifulThan any otherLove is as diverse as you areUniquely individualAnd unchanged by detailsYou are equally amazingEqually beautifulEqually lovingAnd you own equal partsOf my heart and soulThe world mayContinueContinue reading “Message to the Children”

World Patriot

This world seems so big to us, but in galactic terms it’s tiny. When you see images of it floating in space you realise how at one we are. One tiny planet that is minuscule even in terms of our own universe, a pinprick in space. Invisible from a few short light years away. WeContinueContinue reading “World Patriot”