World Without End

The word “trust” keeps coming back to me.
At first I was thinking about myself, as usual. I’m good at things where my intuition is the important element. I’m good with being trusted – even better if you’re not counting on me for anything enormously specific. I’ll just take your job or your friendship or your [...]

My eyes have gone funny again. Sometimes they’re nearly 20/20, then I’ll randomly be unable to read a car registration plate or make out faces from more than ten feet away. I should go back to the optician but instead I think I’ll blame you. Yes, YOU. Knock it off, okay? Seriously.

We’ll always find someone who’ll tell us what we want to hear.

Occasionally pictures and phrases will flash up in front of me as I wake. This morning:TRUST IS LOVE.

I think I’ve just realised that I’m the opposite of commitment-phobic. Consistently hungry for security I seek to inspire commitment in others by always committing to them first, on whatever level is available to me. This makes me reliable, but also means that I’m almost invariably much more committed than anyone else. This can be [...]

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
Robert Greeleaf

People who will sit in silence with us are the rarest kind of friend. In fact as the world finds newer and newer ways to talk to itself, they’re becoming an endangered species.
Why do we rush to talk? I suppose we want to share ourselves. [...]

I have four lives to coordinate every morning before I step out of the door. They are always there, taking up what feels like 80% of my brain capacity. Even though one of them is an adult, and one unborn, their lives must still be planned for and factored into every decision I make. It [...]

ADVICE FROM M.
This morning I went for my monthly haircut from M., hairdresser and part-time guru. I blog partly because I often find little nuggets of useful or even Extremely Important information in everyday conversations, and M.’s are really unusually rich. He has a sense for the spiritual that I have only met in a [...]

Just wanted to announce that computers are great. I thought I was going to have a really stressful rushed day adding new data to the files which I made weeks ago, and rejigging the whole report, but lo and behold, as I’ve put in the data in Excel all the charts have changed too! It’s [...]