Sitting one evening in O’Neill’s pub in Kings Cross, London. O’Neill’s… ME? This is your brunch in Fortnum & Mason’s kinda girl… Live the life you want, I say. Not a sticky tabled, cacophonous roaring den of wi-fi paradise burger and chips laced with lager glasses. Plus, when I was a young woman, no respectable woman would be seen dead at night in Kings Cross! Read more…
We fell about laughing so much my belly ached. And all because of a shared passion!
Talking with my colleague and friend Zoe Dawes, the Quirky Traveller , travel writer, blogger and coach. BTW… She travel writes like you’ve not read before and she runs an absolutely creative smorgasbord of a blogging workshop.
We were talking about our mutual passion for writing. How we both delished language painting pictures and visions and dreams and sensuality of experience. And we remarked on not same-old-same-old writing styles, she highlighting some of my own writing/speaking/languaging quirkiness… Read more…
9.30 am Tottenham Court Road Starbucks jazz playing oh so mellow. Hanging out before meeting a colleague at 10.15. Then register for training course at 11.30.
Arrive early. Take an inspirational book, listen to inspirational stuff/music, write in your journal like I’m doing right now. Read more…
Seems to be the human journey is to get born ready to be the most loving-humane-potential-passion-bundle-possible… only to get screwed up along the way. Fact of life.
And it’s time to get over it! Read more…
Let’s face it, they’ve been some great American orators, among them John F Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King. And in the UK, sadly deceased, our wonderful Mo Mowlem…
Now there’s Obama. Like all great orators, while undoubtedly full of passion, he also follows Aristotle’s teaching of 3 appeals to the listener for high power influence… Read more…
I have been in a big big big transition and it just felt ‘off’ to write loads except private stuff. But it always feels oh so OK to be writing with you. In whatever mysteriously delicious way you have helped me on my journey… Thank you. I appreciate and value your presence.
And, that leads me to wonder who else I need to let know how much I appreciate and value them. It’s so easy in the hubbub of our 2012 lives to take those around us for granted, especially our self! And, if we don’t appreciate and value our self, how the bazookas can we do that for anyone else? Read more…
I was going to start this blog post with a story. But, you know what?… I thought, “To hell with the story… Cut to the chase!” And the chase is…
I am being absolutely serious!
You might be surprised that anyone would ever think you were magnificent. You might be full of disbelief… Who ME! Or, you might be having a deep sense of “Yeah… I AM magnificent!” My guess is, for most of you, it’ll be surprise or disbelief… or both! Read more…