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The Price of Love
The late Queen Elizabeth II once said that the price of love is pain. And it is an unfortunate truth. I would add that, sometimes, the price of personal growth is pain also. When we fall in love, we do so wholeheartedly. We throw ourselves into the experience because it’s…
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Why Do We Make Ourselves Small?
I had two pieces of really good news yesterday. The first was that the tests on my heart over the past couple of months have meant that the cardiac unit are happy to discharge me. No more heart tests just periodic blood tests and, to be honest, if I didn’t…
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To Speak or Not To Speak
I’ve had an interesting ‘debate’ with someone I follow online this morning about whether or not people with platforms on social media and elsewhere should speak up about issues such as the Epstein files or if they should remain silent. I fall firmly in the speak out space, the person…
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Socrates and Wanting More
We live in an age where we want more. More ‘things’. We accumulate ‘stuff’ at an alarming rate and dispose of it at an equally alarming rate. And then we want more. And more. In the process, we are losing sight of what really matters. Ourselves and who we truly…
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Planets, Life, Failing, Rearranging.
Empedocles, a Greek philosopher, is said to have said “When everything falls apart, it’s not always the end, sometimes it’s rearrangement”. And given my life fell apart so spectacularly over the last 2.5 years, I thought I would pull on this thread a little and see if it isn’t rearrangement…
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Does Charity Work?
This is a controversial question I know, but my question stems both from my own experiences and something I heard an Indian guru say once – that charity catches people in its net and never releases them and that the only way out of poverty is through education. I distinctly…
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My Dream Home
Okay, the stately home picture is a joke. Can you imagine cleaning all those windows?! I know exactly what my dream home is. I know where it is, and I know what it looks like because I have already been inside it. Yes, my dream home exists and I know…
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Ask. Believe. Receive.
I’ve just written a blog from the Daily Prompt concerning what I would do if I won the lottery. And I concluded it with Ask. Believe. Receive. And there’s a specific reason for that. The other day, I was scrolling through YouTube looking for something to listen to while I…
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My Lottery Dream
I’ve responded to this prompt before, but I will again because it’s good to imagine. And things in my life have changed since then which will be reflected in what I would now do. The first thing I would do if I won the lottery would be go and buy…
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More Historic Parallels
In another conversation with my son, this time about our experience at Colchester Castle and having lived in a house that had connections to the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins, I found myself thinking about this and the modern times we live in. And how, again, there are parallels. The witchcraft…
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