Selection of prose and poetry
Prepare to meander along the rivers of paradox
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Moon
Spectacular Dear Love, what will you have me know today about being spectacular? Everything is going to be okay, love, because everything is in this moment, you can see the shine in your pen’s ink, the dappled light dancing on the window, the colourful beads shaking through the air, the imperfection in the paint creating…
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End and Start
A few words for the humans I had the pleasure to work with for the past year and half: How do I feel? Peaceful and calm Sunny and free Grateful to be here today And elsewhere tomorrow What comes next, you ask? Life and its many surprises, I say ‘When you press the pause button…
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You are the universe
Our perception of reality Sometimes I am not sure whether to stand in absolute awe or to laugh about some of the paradoxes we live within Grasping the fullness of what these might reveal seemingly appearing on the spectrum between tantalising and utterly absurd Most of us too busy busying ourselves with trivial activities that…
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Eureka!
I just had a Eureka moment realising Useful Me is not Me. This is very exciting. What a relief. I am so grateful the process of writing is helping me think through and is bringing gaps in my understanding to my attention. I recently discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) as non-pathologising, evidence-based method to better…
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The Milkshake Epiphany
Do you THINK or FEEL first? Let me tell you a funny story about a banana milkshake and what it taught me. Are you the kind of person who knows what’s good for them and trusts that things will turn out exactly how you want them to? Do you excel in being in the moment,…
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What is wrong with you?
A kid walking down the street This morning, I was walking down the street when a scene stopped me in motion, grabbed my stomach and travelled me back in time. Here’s the situation. A kid is about to cross the road at upcoming traffic when a woman, let’s assume his mum, pulls his arm in…
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I feel therefore I am
Dear Love, what will you have me know about who I am? You were literally brought up in the school of ‘I think, therefore I am’. It makes sense that you consider that way of thinking as a sort of norm, a sort of safe pillar you can count on. It’s much harder for you…
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On clutter
Dear Glennon and Amanda, I consider the likelihood of these words being read by anyone but myself low but I believe the process of writing them will help at least one person think through them, so here they are. I listened to Episode #282 on our relationship to stuff and I think you are both…
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Approval
Composing the symphony of our lives To compose the symphony of yourself Must you know how to play instruments? It would certainly help But until then Use the sound of the waves in the ocean The chirping of the birds in the wind And the silence of when there is nothing to say Letter from…
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9
The date of our births Nine When enough is a neuf But together is softer Seconds in the morning when you see that I am here Days or less spent apart since moving to our new home Months of not carrying a human life but many more ways of bringing life into this world Life…