Conscious Ageing – the grand adventure?
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Aug 30 2010
This is one of my “you either love it or you hate it” moments. I happen to love the XFactor – in all its awfulness and its humanness. This video is one of the latter. Anyone out there who is 50+ – look at this woman, sense her determination, her strength, her honesty – and [...]
Aug 24 2010
This piece came in the form of a letter to me. I wanted to print it just as it is. Dear Persphone, Just recently I wrote an article entitled ” The questions that are never answered ” Persephone intimated that it may be provocative in it’s content; Which I believe to be true. So I [...]
Aug 24 2010
Many years ago in the 70s and early 80s, I would often use the music of John Denver as a scene-setter, or a trigger for some group structure. These were the days when I worked a lot with groups of varying kinds. Some people loved his music, some hated it – labelling it as corny [...]
Aug 17 2010
Another gift through my mail box this morning, this story is as old as time. It’s been told in many voices and many forms. This version happens to be a visual feast also.
Aug 17 2010
I found this piece in my so-far ‘Unpublished’ file. To my shame, I thought I had lost the author’s name and said so on first publishing. Today, I received a letter from dear James Bonser telling me that he was the author! So, apologies to James and much happiness that he wrote and put me [...]
Aug 16 2010
Much Ado About Me An unreliable autobiography. By Ursula Fausset Ursula is a friend and colleague of mine – going back more years than either of us care to remember. However, this isn’t the reason that I am recommending her book. For those of you who experienced, during the late sixties and early seventies, the [...]
Aug 12 2010
I love this woman for her enormous talent, her intelligence and beauty and most of all for her courage. To see her in this unusual, but oh-so-dear haunt of my student years has touched my heart. And currently, in my life . . . she says it all. You may need to scroll down a [...]
Aug 10 2010
Recently I mentioned the book The Monk and the Philosopher. During a few day’s escape and calm at a friend’s house in Devon, it was read more thoroughly. This book’s conversations between father and son woke me up. I saw how I mangle and elaborate the dramas in my life, and how much that mangling [...]