It’s been a while. Things have been………difficult. For a while, unseasonably quiet, or so it seemed, and whilst I knew we weren’t out of the woods I was happy for a while to rest inContinue reading
Last weekend there were fleeting glimpses of the old AJ, just for a few hours, like a rainbow appearing momentarily between sunshine and rain. Reach out to try and grasp it and it disappears throughContinue reading
“Hope is such an underrated characteristic, don’t you think? Perhaps because it sounds a bit flaky. Like you’ve not prepared and you’re winging things. “Hoping for the best” is something we do when we reallyContinue reading
“You feel so much, you feel nothing at all” David Ross Lawn July 2021, Sunday morning, the sun just thinking about creeping into the sky. A sudden sharp hammering on the door shattered the otherwiseContinue reading
A brand new year. What do you wish for? No New Year’s resolutions for me, but a continued purposeful commitment towards a more quiet and gentle approach to living with whatever life challenges us with.Continue reading
“You have travelled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined toContinue reading
I was sitting in an online Senior Leadership Team Meeting this week reviewing risk registers and our business development plan when my phone pinged. As a rule I try to ignore my phone in meetings,Continue reading
I spent some time with a friend recently whose daughter died suddenly, unexpectedly. I’ve re-written that sentence several times. There is no right or easy way to say it, because ultimately, it’s not right isContinue reading
The last few years have largely been quite solitary, and consciously so. I have chosen to withdraw from the majority of the people around me, and much of what I have written thus far hasContinue reading
I am tired. Little M says he is either “sleepy tired” and sometimes “tired in my bones”. I am tired in my bones. My mind is too full, my eyes are perpetually circled with darkContinue reading
