Blessing: John O’Donohue (August 2020)
This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubt Scrape...
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Finding solace and beauty through music (Part 1)
Throughout my book ‘The Grace of a Nightingale’ you will discover how music has enabled me to find solace, beauty, love and hope...
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Tips For Writing A Book
Writing your memoir can be exhausting, lonely and confusing. Here are some of the things I found helpful when writing my debut book….The...
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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 – Diane Setterfield
People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of...
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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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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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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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