The tao of the ‘Nightingale’
The nightingale has totemic significance for me. Not only am I drawn to the symbolism of this bird of love and loss, it is also the name of the...
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Writing my story – knowing myself
From the distant ruins of my past there are both unwelcome and inspirational memories which have been revisited in order to write these memoirs...
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Reflecting on Your Everyday Experience #2
“ If experience is the food of learning, then reflection is the digestive process………to benefit from experience, it is essential to make something...
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Reflecting on Your Everyday Experience #1
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver This meditation is taken from my memoir ‘The Grace of...
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Designing the book cover
Both the title ’The Grace of a Nightingale’ and the cover design have various connotations – nature, nursing, freedom, spirituality (the...
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Lesley Young – Selected Poems #6
Ten to Seven You might have seen me walking In the company of friends On Dartmoor’s ancient trails. You might have seen us strike a pose For a...
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Nothing Compares
Let the silent tears flow And when your eyes clear Perhaps you will glimpse How your eternal child Has become the unseen angel Who parents your...
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Quote – Bill Plotkin
So little of our conversation addresses our passions, loves, emotions, dreams or our creative insights and soul stirrings…...
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A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window
My favourite radio station is BBC Radio 6 specialising in alternative music. A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window by Erland Cooper is a special...
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Who Am I? Finding Deeper Meaning Wisdom and Truth
Whilst writing my memoir…here are some of the tools and exercises I found helpful when searching for deeper meaning and spiritual hope: The...
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Dare to Dream
In the bleakness of Kansas Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz desperately asks her dog “Some place where there isn’t any trouble. Do...
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