Books to enjoy… Living alone can be an incredibly fulfilling experience if you embrace the many opportunities it offers. While some might view solitude as a challenge, it’s actually a chance to cultivate a rich and meaningful life on your own terms. Whether you’re living alone by choice or circumstance,…
Tag: mental health
Growing Old Wisely
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Spring this year…
If it’s your bag Spring is the time of endless emails and post from gardening websites. It works too as I want to buy everything! Not this year though. Definitely not. Last year I grew stuff for both neighbours. Herbs for the one who loves cooking, flowers for our communal…
Sometime around now
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Sex and knitting
I’ve just finished watching The Obsession on Netflix. An excruciatingly bad remake of a classic but I was intrigued non the less. I can look back over my life and see it all now as clear as day. The good, the bad and the downright ugly. The ones I wanted…
Sometime around now
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A world run by psychopaths
25,000 people. Twenty five thousand. Killed simply because they are in the way. What Hamas did was worse than the worst horror film I have ever watched and I’ve seen most. We generally don’t get to hear what goes on that’s the thing. Pretty much the same atrocities were committed…
Words
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Keep your children close
I often think how lucky I am to have my daughter so close. In light of the recent atrocities in the world, even more so. I see my daughter several times a week. She often stays the night, comes for meals or sometimes we just go shopping. If she stays…
Growing Old Wisely
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Aging
AGING…. You grow old, they told me, you are no longer you, you become distant, sad, and lonely. I didn’t answer… I don’t get old, I get wise. I stopped being what others like me to become, but what I like to be. I stopped seeking the acceptance of others…
Poems & Stuff
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I’m tired of tomatoes
I’m tired of tomatoes and hoping for some sun. I want the wind and the rain to come. Falling leaves and conkers, beanie hats and jumpers, Frigid air and toes that are numb in my wellies. I want to hibernate. I want to shut the windows and draw the curtains…
I remember in my thirties
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Memories in music
Following on from my post about Napster I thought I’d share a band that Napster introduced me to. I went on to buy several albums of theirs. But it’s been awhile and listening to the words of this particular song for the first time in years made me almost throw…
Sometime around now
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Silence & foxes
Last week my eldest little dog and myself quietly followed a fox late in the afternoon in the cemetery. It was a grey day, heavy and humid and still before the storm. He was beautiful and handsome and slightly evil looking at the same time and I was a little…
