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...

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...

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...

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...

Sometimes things just are not fair. Sometimes things just suck. Nothing anyone’s done, just horrible. It’s so tempting to tell someone in...

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...

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...

“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...