This is a mandala created by Françoise my partner who loves doing such things as a therapy but probably because for its own sake. The purpose of a mandala is to help transform ordinary minds into enlightened ones. This discipline is associated with Hindu and Buddhist cultures and are believed to represent different aspects of the universe and are used as Instruments of meditation and symbols of...
I'm writing this at 9.20pm after a very successful launch meeting for my new local writers group. It was obvious that over half the people were not local so we may re Christen it as a Somerset group of some sort but I've asked people to think about it. Nine people were invited and seven attended which I suppose for a new venture is not bad. I do wish the two people who hadn't turned up could...
I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw this in Sainsbury's; they just about get away with it. This is supposed to be a diary but since the politics is so overbearing on all aspects of our life it is difficult to ignore it The words below remind me a bit how I feel stuck and helpless here in the UK. On the face of it, it is impossible to understand the folly of just importing people and...
I had the privilege this evening of facilitating a meeting by zoom that was the closest to becoming a role model for social and cultural meetings including committee meetings This was about dowsing and was a spin off from a rather inappropriate group organised by the British Society of Dowsers a few months ago. I have been a member of the BSD on and off for ages and have done dowsing since I...
I agreed to give a counseling session to one of my long-standing clients on a Sunday morning. I know him well enough that he would only ask for such a thing if he wasn't in extreme difficulty and so it was. He talked a lot about his work situation and the fact that his boss criticized him in front of a group on a remote call. There was something else that he needed to talk to me about and...
14 people were invited and 14 people showed up. There is always the moment before when you've done everything you can and say to yourself, what happens if?..... I'm glad to say that people did show up, they bought presents, everyone except one person made the attempt to dress up for the part and the occasion. As I'm de facto administrator as well as being a birthday boy everything ultimately...
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
