Look, I’m not naive, I know you can’t constantly maintain a positive attitude towards everything that happens in life, but you can try… you can stop putting obstacles in your path that weren’t there, or at least anywhere but your mind. You can stop over-analysing and worrying about things you can’t, and never will, control….
Category: Relationships
Finding fond memories
I’m looking through some old boxes my folks brought me from Portugal, when they drove over a couple years back. Yeah, they moved there and it’s just been an absolute blessing. Anyways, I find this book I haven’t read since 2000… it’s called Wild Swans by Jung Chang. It’s a stunning story, full of history…
reblog: 5 things my newborn taught me, which 10 years running a business didn’t
So often, we lose sight of what is truly important to us – spending time with friends, and/or family, travelling, exploring, just being (to name a few of mine). I was looking back through some of my sisters older blog posts, and came across thie one: 5 things my newborn taught me, which 10 years…
quote: Rumi on love
your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The Foreboding, by Robert Graves
Looking by chance in at the open window I saw my own self seated in his chair With gaze abstracted, furrowed forehead Unkempt hair. I thought that I had suddenly come to die, That to a cold corpse this was my farewell, Until the pen moved slowly upon paper And tears fell. He had written…
mimicked in salt
my body feels so heavy my arms, limbs, eyelids my mouth turned down at the corners my heart in my stomach and my head clouded so thick. i imagined the door closing, light disappearing. blackness. and that wall being rebuilt, brick by brick – yet the chasm was wider, deeper and darker. the cries of…
hand and heart, no brain
I feel like someone just punched their hand through my chest and ripped out my heart.
sending you all much love…
One good thing about Commercial Love Day?? Free chocolate and free roses!!!
the egg, by Andy Weir
You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off,…
ode to Sinead and Jake
When you told me you were getting married, I smiled in disbelief… after all these years?! I’m sure that even your parents felt some relief. You two aren’t a typical whirlwind romance, But rather, slow burners – giving your love a real chance. I didn’t imagine either of you as the “fairytale wedding” types But…
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