top of page
  • Writer's pictureHenrietta

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 to where I saw that film; a hot and stuffy cinema in Stamford Hill, with work colleagues just after the film was released. By thinking of that occasion, I remember people and things I haven’t thought of for years


Memory can be like that. We can encode memories then store them away, sometimes for tens of years. Then something happens that allows us to retrieve them, things we thought long forgotten. Sometimes good, like my works cinema trip. Sometimes bad, like when we thought we’d “got over” something and it turns out it was just buried and waiting for the right moment to pop out and be dealt with


And when it’s come up into the light and we’ve been able to put it into the past tense, it can feel such a relief. It may take a few “visits” to the memory to get there, but when it’s done, then the good stuff the memory was hiding is sometimes released too.

10 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All

We move through our lives from one stage to the next. New born babies become babies, then toddlers, then small children, then school children and young people etc etc etc. Each stage presents with n

My soul is in a hurry by Pedro Salinas I counted my years and discovered that I have less time to live from now on than I have lived so far ... I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets; The f

What is resilience? Many people think it's about never feeling bad. Never feeling stress. Floating above the pain and overcoming it. That's not what the word actually means though. It means being a

bottom of page