You’ve heard it a million times: “live in the moment”. “Be more present”. And it’s true. Living in the past is unhelpful. Constantly looking back at what you’ve lost, emotionally and physically, is futile, because it’s gone. It’s never coming back. Being rooted in the past means missing out on fully living in the present.…Read More

It’s a cold, damp Thursday night. My run takes me the same route it does most evenings of the winter season. The last leg brings me to a corner house. As always, there’s a light on in the front room, and the curtains are wide open. The TV flickers light over the back wall, and,…Read More

It never rains; it pours. Never a truer word said. It seems like bad luck comes in spurts, usually in a row of three – in my experience. Is this the way life works, or do we simply attract more bad luck because we slip into a negative spiral? Is the law of attraction at…Read More

This morning, over breakfast, I spotted The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran, on my bookshelf. It is not unusual for me to grab this book at random and read a page or two. It’s that kind of book, one you can dip in and out of for a glass of inspiration. At random the book opened at…Read More

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi There is no truer saying. And at no time is this more poignant that when you’re sick. Just recently I came down with the flu.  Not a cold, or man flu; real influenza. I experienced this 15 or…Read More

I shouldn’t laugh, my mum says. “She must know that you’re not pandering to her attention seeking”. And I must admit, my mum is an expert when it comes to kids. Well, aren’t all mums of the “old school generation”? Seriously, it’s like every stage of development they describe before your child gets there seems…Read More

Yesterday I sat by a pond to eat my lunch. A particularly peaceful spot, there were some koi carp circling the pond’s perimeter. As I sat in in quite contemplation munching on my pasta and vegetables, a surprising thing happened. A fish swam around the pond and, when it reached the point at where I was…Read More

I’m pretty good at letting go and moving on from past events; I’ve had a fair bit of practice over the years. But today I was reminded of just how hard it can be to let go of the past. I was reminded how people get stuck in that mental prison of what ifs and why…Read More

My mobile phone is four years old. It’s at that age where it gets funny looks from other phone users, and phones, for that matter. “Wow, you still got one of those”? The thing is, my phone still does all I need it to do. It’s a Blackberry, which means it has a Qwerty keyboard,…Read More