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From Quiet Homes …

February 11, 2010 Reflections
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“From quiet homes and first beginning,
out to the undiscovered ends,
there’s nothing worth the wear of winning,
but laughter and the love of friends.”

Hilaire Belloc

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Thankless Thinking

February 4, 2010 Reflections
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I’ve become aware recently there’s a phenomenon in our society that I call “thankless thinking”.

A couple of weeks back I’d been browsing through a shop and on impulse, as…

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Stopped and Dropped

January 29, 2010 Reflections
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It’s strange how sometimes you can drop your bundle with something, and not really know why. For me, it’s been my “blogging bundle”.

Ok, so the month or two following…

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Serendipity

September 21, 2009 Journeys
Gems

I was going through some old files and came across a poem I wrote a number of years ago about the joy of chance encounters.

It was written after a…

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Dreaming of World Peace

September 16, 2009 Reflections
World Peace

World peace .. does that sometimes seem an impossible dream?

Maybe.

We’re all human. We get cranky and annoyed. People irritate us – their actions hurt or anger us. And…

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Holding the Centre

September 13, 2009 Reflections
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I’ve just finished reading Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.

Subtitled A Memior of Revolution and Hope, it is an inspiring…

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Why Does Writing Matter?

August 22, 2009 Reflections
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I’ve just finished reading Anne Lamott’s book Bird By Bird.

Anne is a published author who also teaches others how to write. Bird By Bird is a distillation of what…

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