Being united brings about a better way of working.  Helping others helps yourself too.  As Helen Keller said, ‘Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much’.  And indeed much more can be achieved if we work in unity.
‘And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the [...]

Last year I went to a choral concert held by a group raising money for a local charity.  I wrote about it in a previous post, If You Don’t Have A Go You’ll Never Know.
The charity they were raising money for is About With Friends, a group who give support to people with learning disabilities.
At [...]

Other words we could use in place of sagacious are: wise, sage, discerning, clever, intelligent, judicious, acute, sharp, keen, perspicacious.
Wisdom is not learned easily.
As Confucius said:
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
It takes time and [...]

In our family we have a tradition, at 8pm every Christmas Day we toast absent friends.  This not only gives us the opportunity to keep those who have gone before us a part of what we do and very much in our minds during our celebrations, but also brings to mind those people who are [...]

In the quiet of the predawn hours The Hush
slips in to blanket the slumbering earth
upon life’s gentle breeze, it quietly blows in
its veil of serenity, imperceptibly dispersed
The Hush unfolds over the hilly terrain
climbing, spilling over the majestic mountaintops
guided by the loving arms of the branches of nature
The Hush settles over me, awakening my heart
Tranquil waves [...]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And [...]

I love opportunities.  I grab them with both hands most of the time.  The ones I don’t take up are never ones I regret letting go.
Some of it comes from being a risk taker, I love life and am happy to explore it fully, but I don’t feel I am in any way cavalier in [...]

At this point you might well be asking ‘what is normal?’  It’s true that normality is different for each one of us.  We all have our own set of rules we abide by, our own set of ideas about what is ok and what is normal.  And in reality there are no hard anf ast [...]

It can be hard to get motivated sometimes.  We all know the little triggers that help us to be motivated but sometimes it’s easier to sit back and refuse to use them.  For me it’s fresh air, but sometimes I don’t feel like a walk, can’t always be bothered to get in the car and [...]

“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it — I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I [...]