Henrietta
A rose by any other name...
Shakespeare of course, and definitely right as far as roses are concerned - I love roses as those who come to my flat or house will have...
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Henrietta
Oct 10, 20181 min read
Omar Khayyam
Today whilst looking for something I vaguely remembered from Hafiz, I found this from Omar Khayyam Be happy for this moment. This moment...
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Henrietta
Oct 9, 20182 min read
Brain training, or living?
When your head won’t stop thinking and is constantly spinning onto the next thing, or jumbled things. When you lie awake at night trying...
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Henrietta
Oct 3, 20182 min read
Men and women, a difference in life experience
A LinkedIn post yesterday really made me think so I thought I’d share. Whether we agree or disagree with some of the responses, they all...
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Henrietta
Sep 27, 20181 min read
Back to Rumi
Flicking through Rumi’s The Big Red Book again and as often happens something has jumped out that I’ve either missed before or not...
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Henrietta
Sep 25, 20182 min read
Hokusai says
Poetry has always been a special form of communication for me; I think of it almost as compressed emotion Roger Keyes read his amazing...
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Henrietta
Sep 24, 20181 min read
September....
For me the summer is over and I seem to have been hit with a tidal wave of Things To Be Done. My teaching timetable is changing almost...
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Henrietta
Sep 20, 20182 min read
Technology...
Well now I've got an app called Drafts and it seems to have sparked off two different trains of thought. I think Drafts is like Notes in...
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Henrietta
Sep 5, 20182 min read
Nobody knows...
Whinnie the Pooh had it right - he got it. Nobody know how we are feeling unless we tell them because nobody is in our heads except us. ...
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Henrietta
Aug 7, 20181 min read
Who is asking?
Rumi is the biggest selling poet in the USA (Barks, 2010). He was born in 1207 and was a theologian. He was also a Sufi Coleman Barks...
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Henrietta
Aug 6, 20182 min read
Friends
What is a friend? Is a friend someone you’ve known for a long time? Or is a friend someone you can rely on. Someone you can be yourself...
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Henrietta
Aug 2, 20181 min read
Life
It doesn’t matter how much I think I’ve worked it out, life still takes me by surprise Whether it’s my reaction to something I thought I...
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Henrietta
Aug 1, 20182 min read
Quotes
Why do I love quotes? I think it’s because sometimes it feels that the writer has captured something and put it very cleverly. Sometimes...
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Henrietta
Jul 26, 20181 min read
Irrationality
A friend just took another friend to a restaurant that I go to, and which I had originally taken her too. I’m not sure whether she’s been...
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Henrietta
Jul 25, 20181 min read
what do I say???
Sometimes things just are not fair. Sometimes things just suck. Nothing anyone’s done, just horrible. It’s so tempting to tell someone in...
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Henrietta
Jul 25, 20181 min read
Acceptance
What exactly IS acceptance? What does it mean? Does it mean rolling over and being a door-mat to whatever fate throws our way? Or does...
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Henrietta
Jul 23, 20181 min read
Summer sun, something’s begun..
To anyone my age that phrase may bring a vision of Olivia Newton John in Grease the original movie. One little phrase and I am right back...
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Henrietta
Jul 20, 20181 min read
The challenge of Accepting
“If you don't like it, change it If you can't change it, change the way you think about it” A great quote like those we see we see on...
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Henrietta
Jul 20, 20181 min read
Why a tutor?
So you have lecturers and you have friends, fellow students. You have assignments and calendars. You even have your exam dates and a...
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Henrietta
Jul 19, 20181 min read
about the silence within us...
This was given to me by a good friend. I saved it in Notes and it’s been there for nearly a year. Sometimes the silence is hidden behind...
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