Today is Grief Awareness Day in the USA. Coming hot on the heels of the shock of Chadwick Boseman’s death, it feels like an appropriate time to share some of my thoughts. Chadwick Boseman was a black actor who, among other roles, brought a black superhero into the mainstream consciousness. His importance to a whole […]
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Happiness Happens
August is Happiness Happens Month. Every couple of months, I go through the awareness days sites to see if there are special days that resonate with me upon which to plan my content. There are generally a few random ones that give me a WTF? moment, but then there are gems like this one. I […]
The Meaning of Life
…is 42. So says Deep Thought in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I think Douglas Adams had a point though, because what I observed in my year as a 42 year old will stay with me for the rest of my life. The back end of 2019 had plenty of WTF moments, but the […]
The Domino Effect
Have you ever noticed the domino effect in your own life? You know, where one thing happens and then it triggers another thing, which sets off another thing and maybe the initial change was tiny but by the end the change has been huge? In The Power of Habit we met Lisa Allen, who changed […]
When Doing the Work is Fascinating #BLM
I started out thinking I’d write a piece every week relating to the Black Lives Matter theme. Then it became mentally overwhelming because there was simply so much information to process, and emotionally overwhelming as I saw people I love glaze over when I tried to engage them in conversation about it. Doing the work […]
The Mid Year Review
I don’t think anybody would disagree that 2020 has been a pretty weird year thus far. We had the catastrophic bushfires in Australia, locusts in Africa, global pandemic and probably the biggest surge in consciousness around racism since the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Much of it has happened against a backdrop of lockdown, […]
Captain’s Log – Week 14 – Mission Report
The week the school pulled a blinder and invited Tilly back. It’s three days a week for a month. She might get twelve days, which is a huge gift for both of us. Can you tell how excited she is? It’s not a great photo, but we got there early and I said “oh look, […]
Captain’s Log – Week 13 – Mission Report
This week has featured a rollercoaster or two. Tilly had no sooner been offered a place back at school than the building was flooded and the damage is so bad they’ve had to close until “industrial” works can be carried out. The weird thing is that until the opportunity presented itself, I had no thoughts […]