…While other days I struggle.
I’m thinking about writing posts for my blogs.
Some days I struggle to come up with ideas. Other days, I’m doing something different not thinking about writing at all when WHAM! Three ideas on the trot.
A moments inspiration is worth hours of sweated labour at the coal-face, but you can’t do inspiration-on-demand.
That’s why I always carry a notebook.
I don’t know why I’m bothering. Misinformation and misunderstanding have such an effective grip on attitudes towards depression that there’s little point.
Anyone who says the sort of things I do meets with quizzical stares and the sort of tolerant dismissal reserved for the stupidest kid in class who says they are going to make something of themselves. Or doubt, or even scorn. It’s enough to make me depressed!
Every case of depression is a personal tragedy. We all need to care enough to start thinking for ourselves.
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Our language is littered with gardening metaphors. I suppose that’s because we have been in contact with the earth throughout human history and that connection has shaped many of our expressions.
It has also given us an innate understanding of how to help things grow and flourish in all areas of our lives, and the things that need weeding out if our relationships are to continue to provide nourishment and beauty year after year.
Continue readingIn an earlier post I wrote about finding a ‘sacred place’. There have been some questions about what I meant by ‘sacred place’.
Maybe this will clarify things a bit. Dictionary definitions seem to equate sacred with religious, and so does St. Google. I mean something different.
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One Response to “Three Useful Ideas in Two Minutes…”
I do exactly that , as inspiration often comes to me when I might not be expecting it ! Suddenly an idea pops into my head. Jotting it down makes sure it’s not lost