In the last 2 weeks, there has been pain (a lot – both emotional and physical), pleasure (a lot – mostly emotional and quelle surprise not much physical) and procrastination (a lot: had a difficult essay to write for a course, not to mention a bad dose of blog-block to boot.) Taking my own advice in line …
There are only a few things about myself of which I can be truly certain: the first is that I am not in any way one of those people my first ever therapist referred to as a “level earther” – someone who lives their lives on a more or less even keel, with few ups …
I couldn’t publish what I had originally written this week. It needs air and to be free to breathe a little before I send it out into the ether. Then, I was uncertain what to write – which is crazy given everything I want to say. So instead, speaking whatever came into my head seemed …
It’s my desire and ambition to be as real as I can be as I write about my experience in this blog. This means that sometimes, it ain’t gonna be pretty! But then, chronic illness, pain, surgery, hospitals, wounds: none of it is especially pretty. Sometimes people only want to hear the inspiring and positive …
Well, the time may be now. But what is this thing called time? It rules our lives like an invisible, omnipotent god. It makes a more than regular appearance in our everyday language. It heals all wounds (… apparently. I’m still waiting … but that’s not for today.) It waits for no-one. You can be …
I am not sure why it has taken me so long to get down to writing this first sentence. I have always wanted to get the most out of life that I can, in whatever way I can, while I can. I have been threatening to start a blog for years but I always put …