I’ve Got Mindfulness on My Mind
Dear Blossom I have mindfulness on my mind tonight but find I can’t immediately see what it is I really want to say about it. Probably because I’ve gotten out of my regular daily 10-minute app-supported mindfulness meditation practice following the shock of my bereavement at the beginning of the summer. Makes me wonder (once […]
When Did You Last Enjoy Who You Are?
When did you last enjoy who you are? When did you really get pleasure from who you are? Still chewing over Claire Anstey’s challenge as shared at StoryHouse.Rocks Live that I told you about yesterday, I keep coming back to this question: when did you last enjoy who you are?
Expressing Yourself Mask-Free
Dear Blossom About a couple of weeks ago I was at the StoryHouse.Rocks live event titled Leave Your Mask at the Stage Door. It was an evening of inspiration, encouragement to self-expression and a challenge to self-express authentically.
Express Yourself
Dear Blossom I love Strictly Come Dancing. For the uninitiated, it’s the BBC’s reality TV show where celebrities who don’t usually dance are paired with professional dance partners for a dancing competition that will go on till the run up to Christmas. Others would say it’s the answer to the X-Factor, the ITV’s reality TV […]
Strengths? What Strengths?
Dear Blossom It’s amazing – and sad – the number of people I come across who are much more aware of their weaknesses than they are of their strengths. And what’s more, when encouraged to look at their strengths as well as their weaknesses, I get a variation of “what strengths?” It is sad to […]
Take a Mindful Moment
Dear Blossom I’ve had mindfulness on my mind today. Sitting down to write to you about it, I find all I want to say is: take a mindful moment litter them through your day when you come to the evening you’ll find that you’re less frayed That’s all from me today. Let me know how […]
What’s Holding You Back?
Dear Blossom There’s something about the autumn sun: it can be so bright that I forget how cold it actually is. The cold is something that could easily stop me from walking Michael. Today is one of those days when it could have. Only because I’d underestimated how cold it really is, and so wasn’t […]
Don’t Stop Believing!
Dear Blossom I woke up from a near nightmare this morning. ‘Near’ only because in the midst of the troubled waters where I found myself, help came from unexpected quarters. What a relief, to wake up and find it was just a dream… and in any case, deliverance did come in the nick of time. […]
Celebrating Nigeria’s Independence… and Mine!
Dear Blossom Fifty – six years ago, Nigeria gained her status as an independent country: no longer a colony of Britain. Still a member of the Commonwealth, but as an independent nation, she can make her own decisions without any external control (at least not overtly direct external control!) Whether or not it does well […]
Leisure
Dear Blossom What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. I’ve got W H Davies poem, Leisure, on my mind this weekend, the first in the last 4 weeks where I’ve been fully home. And mostly chilled. I say ‘mostly’ because my mind still wanders to the […]