Clear?
“I have no time for the endless nostalgia: ‘Oh gosh I used to …’ Life is too short; I don’t have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What’s the point? Go and do something else.” Kate Adie
Sardines, Ouzo and freedom . . .
In 2018, Greek pilot Vasileios Vasileiou survived a Taliban attack on the Kabul hotel he was staying in. 40 people lost their lives. His experience, understandably, has shaped his outlook on life: “I have always been a positive person, but nowadays I am even more so. I enjoy every single moment of life and feel… Read More Sardines, Ouzo and freedom . . .
And how does that make you feel?
I read that the Tibetans have 18,000 different words for emotions. If we took a leaf out of their book – and what a huge dictionary that must be – might we just be able to now have that difficult conversation we’ve been putting off? 18,000 words suggest we could give it a try.
Living for today . . .
116-year-old Japanese woman, Kane Tanaka, recently received the Guinness World Record for the oldest living person. Asked what part of her life she’d enjoyed most, Tanaka said: “This right now.”
Here today . . .
Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that’s when you open up the Champagne. To make it sparkle. CHRISTOPH WALTZ
Loving your work . . .
I listened to Professor Phil Manning from the University of Manchester talking so enthusiastically about the impact of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. Aside from revealing what happened on the very last day of the dinosaurs, Professor Manning was more than a little taken with the results that… Read More Loving your work . . .
A recipe for success . . .
When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day (Ella Woodward).
Rising to the occasion . . .
Adwoa Aboah began modelling while studying drama at Brunel University. In 2017 she was the first cover star of Edward Enninful’s Vogue magazine, and also in that year named GQ Woman of the Year. She founded the online platform Gurls Talk, a discussion forum for mental health, body image and sexuality, and in 2019, Barbie’s… Read More Rising to the occasion . . .
When you say nothing at all . . .
“It is sometimes safer to be taken for a fool and to be overlooked, than be considered wise and have your every word examined.” Madame Boussay, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse
Simple does . . .
In my office at work we have an instruction for our water boiler, reminding users to turn the dial anti-clockwise to release the boiling water. The note isn’t printed, or lengthy, or at all ambiguous. It’s handwritten on a sticky yellow note that might not last too much longer stuck to the front of the… Read More Simple does . . .
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