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“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars” Seneca

Month: November 2020

Neither is the better choice

AsideNovember 19, 2020November 18, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper1 Comment

Or Is a dangerous word Or Can be this Or That Which loads both words Like a gun I Am Either Or What does that look like? Healthy Or unhealthy Good Or Bad Right Or wrong But life’s not like that Even though our brains (Which desire clarity and ultimatums and black or white real […]

Go, while you can

AsideNovember 18, 2020November 15, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper7 Comments

All the things will be waiting The dust on the floor Comes willingly to the pan But only when swept The plants lower their leaves Pray for water The dog barks The washing lies about They’ll all still be here When you get back Go While you can *small adventure last week was very satisfying. […]

I don’t want to go out..

AsideNovember 17, 2020November 15, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper9 Comments

A small child leaning Against her mothers leg All those years The gentle firm hand Between shoulder blades Pushing her forward Into things Became pushing herself Doing the hard That which breaks the heart Again and again Whispering to self “A spoonful of cement” But where does it all end After all in the head […]

Reception

AsideNovember 16, 2020November 15, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper3 Comments

I listened And I heard what I have heard a thousand times before I listened And all the world sounded the same I listened and one day I heard what I was always hearing And then I learnt to listen differently And that changed everything

Returning

AsideNovember 13, 2020November 12, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper8 Comments

Old habits Cling like vines Their furry tentacles curling Pulling me back in time To get somewhere new Is not a roundabout route Instead it is through And in this Lies the problem I don’t get to change Overnight Wake up fresh and exactly as how I would like to appear Instead it is a […]

Head space

AsideNovember 12, 2020November 11, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper1 Comment

And my thoughts take me by the hand What is good today Will be too much tomorrow And we think we can trust them No thankyou Slide my hand away But who will I follow If not my own thinking? There are layers and layers I’m constantly sifting Through days where I eat too much […]

Lessons learned from Kelly Shann

AsideNovember 11, 2020 AthousandbitsofpaperLeave a comment

From the Audacity Blog, you can read here https://audacitymagazine.online/?p=237&frame-nonce=fbb3f7df4a

Gods creations

AsideNovember 11, 2020November 10, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper4 Comments

God is in the leaves that fall God is in eyes that watch the leaves that fall God is in the thoughts that the watcher is having And in between them There is nowhere That God is not Except for The restrictions and connotations of what exactly God is Such as God is male God […]

Podcast Whispers with Women ❤️

AsideNovember 10, 2020November 9, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper15 Comments

I had the privilege last week of being invited to speak on Amanda Allen’s stellar podcast Whispers with Women. Caveat: Amanda doesn’t believe in editing, this is a long rambling conversation punctuated with gusts of laughter and genuine enjoyment of our shared interest in all things health, life and the messy beauty of it all […]

The infinite loop

AsideNovember 9, 2020November 8, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper6 Comments

Breathing through a cigarette Staring Through a filter of smoke Hands hard A little girl, fingers curling nervously Stands at her side Eyes carefully empty Except around the edges Where she watches Other boys with sullen eyes Dropped lips Glaring through fringes turned into cowlicks By damp palms shoving them up up and out of […]

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