Offering gentle, low risk ways to explore what it means to be a creative person
September can feel like an in between kind of month. In early September, it's usually like summer still. The new school term often seems to coincide with a heat wave, which is especially annoying if the weather during the summer holidays wasn't very good! But once the schools are back, Christmas things start appearing in the shops. We can start to feel that we ought to be thinking about Christmas, even if we don't really want to because the days ... Read the Post...
At the end of July, we went on holiday to Montenegro. To be completely honest now, when I agreed to it, I didn't actually know where Montenegro was. I think I might got it mixed up with San Merino. The extent of my geographical knowledge is limited to watching Eurovision with an atlas on my lap, and I would need a few minutes to find even countries I have visited! As well as not being entirely sure where it was, I didn't realise that ... Read the Post...
Recently I wrote a post about limits and limitations. The world we live in tells us that we don't enough. We need more, better, newer. If there's a problem, all we need to do is buy a thing and that will make it go away. There are so many difficulties with this idea! Not least that more stuff usually causes more problems than it solves, and knowing exactly what is enough is vague, so we don't always know when to stop. Especially when not ... Read the Post...
Sometimes there are things that stand in the way of our dreams. We might feel that we don't have enough time, or space, or stuff, or money to do all the things we want to do. More time could mean getting everything done, having time for hobbies, dreams of all sizes, more time with our families, and time for tedious domestic tasks without ever dropping the ball or feeling exhausted. More stuff could mean realising a big dream or ... Read the Post...
