Tag: WRITING
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The Enduring Mystery of The Rule of Three
The concept of things coming in threes has a pervasive presence across various aspects of life. By understanding this pattern, we can gain insight into the human mind’s inclination towards patterns and symmetry. It is a number which creates harmony, balance and connectedness. A number which flows and leads to a resolution.
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How do Creative Habits enhance your writing and wellbeing
I am currently working on an Action Research programme in schools (funded by Arts Council England) which is exploring how a creative and culturally rich experience can enhance children’s life and learning. One of the key factors we were discussing yesterday is: ‘how do we foster Creative habits across the whole school; and most significantly,…
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Where Method Acting Meets Journaling
During my varied career in the arts and theatre, I have come to realise that Method Acting isn’t just for the actors. In fact, I have drawn heavily on it in my writing and I now realise that my writing practice is pure ‘method.’ Instead of viewing yourself as a writer when you are journalling,…
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Ideas come easy… but too many create a dust cloud
A peak beneath the surface; a dive into the unknown and unseen, surfacing with precious crystals, manifested by visualising myself dowsing my gut microbiome…
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Complaints, grumbles & discontent …
What do you complain about the most? Most of my complaints, grumbles and grief get written out in my journal. The rest is reserved for politicians and the Vox-Pops the TV companies record of ‘ordinary‘ people commenting on political activity. But if these ‘ordinary‘ people are representative of the world we live in, then we…
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Doo-be doo-be dooo!
This was a question I loved to ask myself, years ago; in the days when I believed that having money would solve all of my problems…
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The Symphony of a Book
I couldn’t write this post until I had finished the book I was reading. And then the whole thing changed. I was planning to photograph my TBR pile, which is at least a dozen books high in print books plus loads on Kindle. But then something changed.
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Family Traditions
Traditions are the glue which hold us together, but when that glue dissolves, which can happen for so many reasons in our fast paced world, traditions become the echoes of the generations – no longer practiced but held in the hearts of the memory keepers – usually the older women of the family.
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My Dream Job? I’m living it… almost …
My dream job used to be that I wanted to be a “full time author and live near the sea.” Oh, hang on. Wait a minute! That’s what I’m doing now and have been doing since 2011 when I was liberated from my income by my employer in my mid 50’s. I made a promise…
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If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
There is only one thing I can think of that will make the world a better place by being un-invented. And when I watch the news it becomes even clearer. If I could un-invent anything, it would be Guns and all killing devices. Conflict is a state of mind and cannot be uninvented. Even without…
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Mind The Gap
It was in that time, long, long ago between the picture of a girl sitting on the sofa, smiling, long thick dark braids hanging down each side of her face – and that other picture of her smiling at a railway station, hair flying loose, carrying a bulky suitcase with all of her belongings and…
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Unleash the Magic and celebrate the Power of Wiser Older Women (WOWs)
My mission is to uncover the enchanting power of women, the creators of life, and contemplate how we can reignite this flame of potential magic within the wiser, older women who have weathered the sands of time.
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