Ties that Bind 2 Do not cut those ties To those you have lost. The blade hurts beyond bearing And cuts more than you know. Let those ties fray rather In the winds of passing time. Thread by thread Strand by strand, Time wears the fabric down. The first to fray is need; Wiry like [...]
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Ties That Bind Us 2 ~ a poem about the bonds of love and loss
Posted in Poetry, spirituality, tagged creative writing, depression, family, friends, healing, healing words, love, mental health, pain, peace, photos, poems, Poetry, psychology, self-development, spirituality, Viv's poetry, Vivienne Tuffnell, writing on February 6, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The Christmas Conundrum ~ what is the spirit of the season?
Posted in spirituality, tagged anxiety, creative writing, depression, family, healing words, life, mental health, psychology, rants, spirituality, stress, writing on December 5, 2011 | 16 Comments »
The Christmas Conundrum ~ what is the spirit of the season? Every year it sneaks up on me and every year I am unprepared and become anxious and then grumpy. Yes, Christmas. I struggle with Christmas these days. I struggle with balancing my own views with those of the society around me. I struggle to [...]
Heart and Hearth – how a sense of belonging can heal the soul
Posted in Depression and Anxiety, spirituality, Traveler's tales, tagged anxiety, creative writing, death, depression, faith, family, friends, healing, healing words, life, mental health, peace, psychology, self-development, spirituality, stress, thoughts, writing on October 21, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Heart and Hearth – how a sense of belonging can heal the soul Despite the fact that I go away for work often enough to keep a separate bag of toiletry essentials, I really struggle to leave my home for holidays. Even for work, I over-pack and take things that might baffle a Customs official [...]
Pearls Before Swine ~or Why You Can Lead A Horse To Water But You Can’t Make It Drink
Posted in Articles, Dreams and dreaming, Magic and mystery, Parables: tales with a purpose, spirituality, tagged anxiety, aphorisms, creative writing, depression, dreams, faith, family, friends, God, healing words, life, meditation, mental health, peace, personal, proverbs, psychology, random, rants, self-development, spirituality, teaching, TEFL, thoughts, wisdom, work, writing on May 23, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Pearls before Swine ~ or why you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink! In my daily job of being a teacher of English as a foreign language, I long for the summer when we get the hordes of invading students from all over the world and the chance to [...]
Ties that Bind ~ a poem about love
Posted in Magic and mystery, Poetry, tagged anxiety, creative writing, death, depression, dreams, family, God, healing, healing words, life, love, love poems, love poetry, mental health, poems, Poetry, self-development, thoughts, Viv's poetry, women's issues, writing on May 13, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Ties that bind What are the ties that bind us? Perhaps for some, like Marley’s chains, They are forged link by link Of heavy frozen steel To weigh down butterfly wings And hearts that would be away, As sure as nail through foot Would anchor us to earth. The ties that bind should rather be [...]
Slip Slidin’ Away ~ a reflection on a long-ago dream and a melancholy song
Posted in Depression and Anxiety, Dreams and dreaming, Magic and mystery, Meditation, tagged anxiety, creative writing, death, depression, dreams, faith, family, friends, God, great dreams, healing, healing words, interdependence, life, meanings of dreams, meditation, mental health, pain, Paul Simon, peace, personal, psychology, random, searching for meaning, self-development, spirituality, thoughts, writing on April 28, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Slip Slidin’ Away ~ a reflection on a long ago dream and a melancholy song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_H-LY4Jb2M I’m not sure when I first heard this Paul Simon song, but it entered my unconscious and stayed there. I was probably about fourteen when the dream occurred. I’d already run away from school and was pretty troubled. [...]
Easter Day ~ He is Risen and walks among us
Posted in Meditation, Parables: tales with a purpose, Poetry, spirituality, tagged being Jesus, Christianity, church, creative writing, death, depression, dreams, Easter, Easter Day, Easter poems, faith, family, friends, God, healing, healing words, Jesus, love, meditation, mental health, peace, personal, poems, poems about Jesus, Poetry, poetry about Jesus, spirituality, thoughts, Viv's poetry, writing on April 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Some years ago while attending an event in Leicester diocese, I saw Jesus walking in the crowds. The man was the actor who plays Jesus in the mystery plays (for more about him see the Being Jesus link) and had a really ineffable quality about him that got me thinking: what if Jesus really did walk [...]
A is for Aardvark ~ Close encounter with one of the world’s most amazing animals.
Posted in Traveler's tales, Wild Life, tagged aardvarks, animal encounters, animals, anxiety, creative writing, dreams come true, family, humour, life, nature, personal, photos, thoughts, travel, wildlife, work, zoos on March 22, 2011 | 6 Comments »
First view, sleeping beauties A is for Aardvark ~ Close encounter with one of the world’s most amazing animals My husband has long had a love for an unusual creature. Coming at the start of the dictionary and top of the list of animals nobody knows a lot about, aardvarks have enchanted him almost as [...]
A sermon for the first Sunday in Lent ~ asking the whys and finding a way
Posted in spirituality, tagged asking why, Christ in us, Christianity, church, death, depression, earthquake, faith, family, finding a way through, friends, God, healing, healing words, Japan, life, love, mental health, pain, self-development, sermons, sermons in Lent, spirituality, the Bible, writing on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another of my husband’s sermons. If you wish, skip the Bible readings and go straight to the sermon itself. Genesis 2.15-17; 3.1-7: 15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. 16 ¶ And the LORD God commanded the man, “You may [...]
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