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  • Just because you think you should doesn’t mean you should

    Thursday, October 10, 2019 Permalink
    because you think you should do something

    I was at a writing workshop a couple of weeks ago and the facilitator shared a quote… I didn’t actually make a note of the reference but think it’s fairly well known.

    It was a memoir and personal essay session and the quote went something like… Just because you think you’ve got a story to tell doesn’t mean you have to tell it.

    I’ve mulled over this from a ‘writing about crap of interest to no one’ perspective for a long time, but also more broadly as it kinda relates to where I’m at ‘life-wise’. (At least in a professional sense.)

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  • More on love – while gazing over Tuscan hills

    Thursday, September 19, 2019 Permalink
    types of travellers

    I’d intended to post something today but was at a bit of a loss (and am also sick). I’m getting daily reminders (thanks Facebook memories!!!) that this time last year I was in Italy. Indeed on this very day last year I was perched outside eating gluten-free pasta with a delicious sauce while gazing at the Tuscan hills.

    Recently I opened the notebook we received from Vanessa Carnevale at the writing retreat and found some exercises we’d done.

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  • What is love?

    Monday, September 16, 2019 Permalink
    what is love

    I decided to join Denyse Whelan’s blogging link-up today and the theme is… What is love?

    I’m tempted to say… fucked if I know. But I guess that’s not true. I may not have been ‘in’ romantic love (which is kinda depressing given I’m 51 years old!). But I know love when I see it and I’ve certainly felt it (even though I rarely, if ever, say it!).

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  • Self-care: cutting yourself some slack

    Monday, August 26, 2019 Permalink
    self care

    I was struggling a little on the weekend. There was nothing major, just a few things colliding Bermuda Triangle-style making me edgy and irritable. The ongoing unemployment thing is obviously ever-present… as it’s almost a year since I finished my contract. Interestingly a similar position has come up with the same government agency but my confidence isn’t quite what it was, and I continue to ponder on how I was perceived.

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  • Mental health and those brave enough to speak about it

    Thursday, August 22, 2019 Permalink
    mental health

    I know I’ve moaned in the past about those who go on and on about some issue or life crisis. Those who can’t get past it and lets it define them. I’ve certainly been like that about a few things in my life, including my eating disorder.

    I saw my father – for some years after his heart transplant – allowing it to become ‘who’ he was (ie. man who’d had a heart transplant)… in some ways, his previous 60 years on earth disregarded because of this life-altering event.

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  • Dry July 2019

    Thursday, August 1, 2019 Permalink
    dry july

    For reasons unknown to mankind I decided to ‘do’ Dry July this year. It’s one of those things I’ve always planned to do – like FebFast etc – but never got motivated enough to officially start.

    Although I had no fundraising target and HATE (ie. absolutely HATE) asking people for stuff, let alone money, I went onto the Dry July website and signed up and put a half-hearted call out on Facebook for donations.

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  • Turtles all the way down

    Wednesday, July 24, 2019 Permalink
    navel gazing and overthinking

    Mark Manson is in Australia at the moment. I remember noting he was coming and wishing I could go to hear him speak.

    I’m not a MM devotee but I like his writing and reference his posts often because I can relate. I know the concepts he raises aren’t new or particularly earth-shattering but I like his blunt no-bullshit approach.

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