Life has been running at a frenetic pace this year - particularly with my promotion in January - so I recently decided to reconfigure my working hours so that I could spend more time at home and it seems to be working really well! I leave work at 2.30 (or thereabouts depending on the day) three times a week so am able to pick the boys up from ( Read more... )

Some of the things I have discovered/rediscovered this year ( Read more... )

Talking Turkeys ( Read more... )

Always think of the universe as one living organism, with a single substance and a single soul; and observe...how all play their part in the causation of every event that happens. Remark the intricacy of the skein, the complexity of the web. - Marcus Aurelius

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure...
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
Permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

What came first - the chicken or the egg?

My boys were debating this over tofu stirfry supper this evening. James feels it's a trick question and not worth addressing. Tristan believes it's quite simple, God made a chicken and then it laid an egg.

Fabulous, as ever, how their answers say more about them than the question.

Yearn On ( Read more... )

Autobiography in five short chapters ( Read more... )

Rising Five ( Read more... )

Chatting with James yesterday on the drive back from band practice:

James: "How do we have feelings?"

Me: "Uhmmm.. that's a difficult question."

James: "And why do we have feelings?"

Me: "Why do you think we have feelings?"

James: "I don't know. That's why I'm asking you."

Me: "Uhmmm.. I think I'm going to have to get back to you on this one