Spirituality

25/08/2022 0 Comments

Princess Diana, a Nurse and a Red Balloon This year would have been Princess Diana’s sixtieth birthday. I met her briefly. This is a story of the...

07/12/2021 0 Comments

Throughout my life my ‘inner essence’ has often guided my work and career choices. It enabled me to make life changing decisions based...

06/12/2021 0 Comments

What is your calling? It was the end of British summertime 1994. I had become a child of God earlier that same year – Easter. Six months later I...

04/10/2021 0 Comments

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27/09/2021 0 Comments

My memoirs make many references to my ‘inner voice’ which has guided me throughout my life. Some would say this is our intuition or...

26/09/2021 0 Comments

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...

28/08/2021 1 Comments

Throughout my book ‘The Grace of a Nightingale’ you will discover how music has enabled me to find solace, beauty, love and hope...

20/08/2021 3 Comments

From the distant ruins of my past there are both unwelcome and inspirational memories which have been revisited in order to write these memoirs...

12/07/2021 4 Comments

Both the title ’The Grace of a Nightingale’ and the cover design have various connotations – nature, nursing, freedom, spirituality (the...

21/06/2021 0 Comments

Poppy Appeal A centenary Of single, scarlet petals Lest we should forget This bold sacrifice Rivers of blood, and heartache For those left behind...

20/06/2021 0 Comments

Wedding Haiku Share each other’s lives In many ways. Go gently, Special friends always. Lesley Young – Writer and Poet ...

19/06/2021 0 Comments

Identity Crisis She was looking for herself In all the usual places Seeking a connection But finding just blank spaces She’d tried the church and...