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I’ve been thinking this week about the good things we receive through an experience of hard things. No matter how good the good thing is we receive through what’s hard…it doesn’t magically make the hard things good. Or transform them. Sometimes (most times) they’re bad in and of themselves. Things like Covid. And lockdown. And back

I read this sentence today and needed to pause to think about it for a little while. “There is more happening while we wait than just waiting.”  The author was talking about how frustrating it is to wait. How weary we get, how cranky and frustrated and wishing it would be over – so we

Hello everyone! I’m back! Really actually missed writing these Notes, come to think of it. I like the routine and pattern, and I love the thoughtful replies I get and the good conversations it starts. Being off for three whole weeks, consecutively, has shown me a few things. Chief of which is that taking time

When ‘everything’ started back in March, I sort of naively imagined I’d get lots of reading done. I’d have all this time, I thought. I wouldn’t be traveling, I’d still get my work done at home and then I could just read and read and read. Didn’t happen that way, at all. Matter of fact

A few months ago I was listening to a podcast called “Do The Thing”, and it stopped me in my tracks within the first few minutes, before she even got to the actual topic. She did a little intro, welcomed her guest, and then said, “Before we get into it, the first question I ask

You know that part of a film, usually in the middle or about two thirds of the way through, where a lot of hard stuff happens really fast with music playing the whole time? There is laughing and crying and falling and getting up again and working out and cutting hair and falling over and

I started this sketch with the words: “There is no normal. We are not going back to normal. We never had normal.” And then I thought about it, and realised making sweeping statements isn’t quite what I want to do here. After all, some people really do want to “go back to normal”. Maybe you’ve

On Monday, for the first time in four months I was able to go somewhere besides my local walks. Those local walking paths have served me well during lockdown. I got the fresh air, some space, daily processing of all the thoughts. But I missed the freedom to get in the car and go far

I listened to episode one of Brene Brown’s podcast, Unlocking Us, yesterday. It has taken me – literally, exactly – three months to click play. (The episode is dated 20th March.) I knew it was going to be good. I have read several of Brene’s books (and watched her TED talks and netflix documentary) and

Last weekend a friend came round and we just sat out on the back deck all afternoon. Talking, watching the breezes move the trees, eating lunch, listening to music. We were talking about things we miss, and one of my greatest ones is travel. Not the constant travel – I’m getting my eyes opened to