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Category: Ramblings
The connection between Robin Williams, Emile Durkheim, Capitalism and Suicide
A couple of nights ago, I watched the Emmy Awards. I didn’t watch the whole thing. I just watched as I was flipping channels. To be honest, I am not a massive fan of the Hollywood award circuit. It is far less about the acting, than who is wearing what, and don’t get me started…
The economics of blogging
Over on one of the blogging Facebook pages I belong to we are having a discussion. It’s an interesting discussion. Quite philosophical in nature. It asks the question of why we exist as bloggers. Actually, that wasn’t really the question. One person pointed out that as a blogger they are sick to death of constantly…
A lost friend and a spirit of light
At what point does a person you know become your friend? A friend of mine died yesterday. It has filled me with enormous sadness. But I don’t know if I can really call her my friend, not least because I wasn’t really a friend to her. I met Adani at a Goddess Gathering that I…
A life without faith
I start university today. I have been down this road a fair few times, dabbling with various courses, in an attempt to find “the one” that will help me define myself. I have finally embraced being me and am now studying something that may not have any relevance in employability, but it has relevance to…
The perfect storm
Have you ever had one of those times? The ones where no matter how well planned something is, everything goes wrong. Where you have no alternative than to watch your best laid plans all go up in the air and you can do nothing but wait for them to land to see how much damage…
Today is a day for grief
I am not sure how to write this post. I am not sure how acceptable it is in the world of blog to talk about the gut wrenching grief I feel right now. As I sit here watching a TV movie of a woman whose husband is returned to her after 66 years of being…
Ramblings {Find the kindness, be the kindness}
It occurred to me the other day that there is an awful lot of exposure given to the unkindness in the world. We live in an online world. That world seems, to me, to be full of negativity and tearing down. It is what fills our social media feeds, TV, news and blog comments –…
Ramblings {The unlearned art of making friends}
I’ve been doing some deep personal work on myself – you can read about how here. It isn’t easy. I am a person who doesn’t naturally have a high opinion of herself anyway, so to then do some deep work, well, it is like laying everything bare for the world to see. And sometimes it…