Category: Inspiration for Life

Garden

Home Sweet Home!

After 6 months looking and 3 months extremely focused and intensive (15 hours per week) house-hunting we have finally bought our new home in the Dordogne!  Voilà ‘La Girouette’…

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Inspiration for Life

Avoiding the Void

As I sit here in my dressing gown in front of the fire, loaded with a nasty cold, surrounded by used tissues and with the rain pouring down outside this Sunday morning, it would be easy to start to feel a little sorry for myself.

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Inspiration for Life

New life, same old me!

It is so easy to think that you will be fundamentally changed as a human being just because you make a big life change like moving to another country, ending a relationship or changing a job.  However, of course, just because the external circumstances of your life are different does not mean that you are different.

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General

The Freedom of Simplicity

We have now been on the road for one week and are gradually settling into our temporarily nomadic lifestyle.  So far we have spent nights

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Inspiration for Life

Happy Birthday to Me!

A bit like when I started writing this blog, I have a big blank page in front of me and I can make the next seven year cycle into whatever I choose.

So, what will it be?  What will I create now?  What next?

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Inspiration for Life

Chaos and Reorganisation

I have had to keep reminding myself that chaos always precedes reorganisation.  Everything has to go to a point of chaos before it can reorganise at a new, higher level and that is exactly what is happening in my life right now.  But chaos is not comfortable and I am not so good with it. 

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Inspiration for Life

This could be my last day

When I become very conscious of this fact – that everything passes, nothing is permanent and this could be my last time – then my present moment becomes much more vivid and much more alive.  Because I want to remember it.  

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