You and I

You and I May be different colours But we’re human We may worship different gods But we’re human We may believe different things But we’re human We may be different genders But we’re human We love our children We love our parents We love our family And our friends Our pets We love our lovesContinueContinue reading “You and I”

The ‘sigh’ in the Room?

When you suffer from mental health issues you’re often treated like a pair of curtains. People try to be sympathetic, lose patience, and suggest that you try harder or pull yourself together. They may not use those words but it’s implicit in the chivvying up process. You can’t whip yourself together with one smart pull,ContinueContinue reading “The ‘sigh’ in the Room?”

Happiness – Snippet

People will tell you that happiness isn’t possible, don’t believe them, that will only make you miserable too. Thinking like that can lead to a long life of believing the worst, not trusting life, and sticking with all the wrong decisions because if it isn’t possible to be happy, why bother changing anything. Might asContinueContinue reading “Happiness – Snippet”

You Are NOT Your Bank Balance

One of the little pieces of blackmail I have always ‘loved’ is that if you don’t charge enough for your work you don’t value yourself and other people won’t believe in you. That, or charging weeds out the losers. To a certain extent that is true, because some people value money in the wrong way.ContinueContinue reading “You Are NOT Your Bank Balance”

There I Am

Loud and Proud For many years I wasn’t as up-front as this, I was basically in hiding in my own life. Anxiety is the great un-doer of personality. It takes everything you think you are and changes you into something you don’t recognise. People very quickly pick up on this, and only the best keepContinueContinue reading “There I Am”

Spring

What’s your favorite month of the year? Why? Hope My favourite months are springtime, all of it. The moment I see a daffodil my spirits lift and I feel renewed and hopeful. I struggle emotionally from October onwards, normally picking up in December. It’s as if my body feels the sap dropping in the trees.ContinueContinue reading “Spring”

I Want to be Cheery

I want this This world is not getting with my program of happiness, joy, peace, love, acceptance, sharing. It’s rather irritating. Okay so no one has heard of me, which is a bit of a drawback, but even so there’s nothing wrong with my plan. It means everyone is joyously happy, well fed, cared for,ContinueContinue reading “I Want to be Cheery”

Badly

How do you manage screen time for yourself? I may be a wrinkly but if it’s modern it fascinates me. As soon as mobile phones appeared my fingers started to itch. I needed to know what this was about. Plus I did live in the country having moved from London, where there was a telephoneContinueContinue reading “Badly”

Me

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com Do you want to know what I’m really like? Deep down below this life Beyond the education and the parenting The schooling and the working The loving and the crying I’m as free as the wind And as light as the air As happy as the sun And asContinueContinue reading “Me”

Just ‘Hangin’ Around

Gustav Klimt “The Kiss” – Belvedere Museum Vienna I don’t know when this slightly crazy departure from my normal poetry came to me, but it did. I found it the other day when I was finally keeping my promise to myself to get all my old writing, handwritten, word processed, typed, up onto a modernContinueContinue reading “Just ‘Hangin’ Around”