Today I need this. First posted in July: This was given to me by a good friend. I saved it in Notes and it’s been there for nearly a...

For years I had a mantra: Peace, calm and tranquility I left it everywhere I worked, I knew it in many languages and I said it all the...

From a recent Facebook post: If you’re too busy, say it If you’re upset, express it If you’re running late, let people know If you don’t...

It’s a difficult time at the moment. The people we have elected to work on our behalf seem to have forgotten what they are there for....

How does “moving on” happen? How does something or someone in our lives suddenly turn into something or someone who used to be in our...

What is a degree about? Its not about learning facts, also known as content, because once you’ve finished your degree you’ll either be...

A friend has let me down and cancelled a visit to an exhibition at really short notice (I was on my way there). She’s always been a bit...

Yesterday I was told something about a friend. I didn’t know it before and it wasn’t an actual “thing” it was that “people were saying”...

Yesterday I was talking with a friend who is really dynamic - does everything well, knows everyone, always busy, always well dressed,...

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...

Today whilst looking for something I vaguely remembered from Hafiz, I found this from Omar Khayyam Be happy for this moment. This moment...

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...

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...

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...

Poetry has always been a special form of communication for me; I think of it almost as compressed emotion Roger Keyes read his amazing...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...