Changing our behaviours always do feel like mountainous tasks. We set big goals – my son’s middle school tee-shirt said ‘run fast or be last’. The non sporting version is ‘go big or go home’…. Read More
Date Archives 2021
Careers choices and options.
I didn’t really know what to do with my life when I was 17. I talked to my father, who said – time enough for that yet, get a degree first, and then think about… Read More
The practice of ‘calling the mind back’.
The practice of calling the mind back, when it has wandered off somewhere is called ‘pratyahara’ in Patanjali’s yoga sutras, an ancient work on how to meditate for the purposes of spiritual advancement. We know… Read More
Three women scientists
So, to continue – three examples of women shining in their fields of work. Choosing Marie Curie is usual. So I won’t. I will look instead at Franklin. (Found in all life on Earth, DNA… Read More
Three woman Artists
The day after international womens day, I thought I would follow something that my father used to say, when he thought I was making some unsubstantiated claim – he would smile and say : Give… Read More
It’s later than we think
A friend honing a new course said ‘It is later than you think, start living now’. It made me sit up and take notice. It also made me start writing a book. A very personal… Read More