Category: Wonderings
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Hello Poetry
I’ve put some work on a website called Hello Poetry, which is a lovely, well-designed (pretty rare) place for sharing poetry. One of my poems about the sea trended for a bit, which is nice. Funny that one of the only things I’ve ever written that rhymes is the most popular. Human beings love pattern.…
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Lightness
I feel light. I’ve been writing – for myself not just for a buck. I can see the point of folding washing and clearing plates for the morning. If something goes poorly, there isn’t a brick of dread sat in my throat trying to choke me on panic. I can say “Oh well, what does it…
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Abandoning My Orphans
I always thought throwing out books was sacrilegious. You were supposed to pick them up gently by their worn sleeves and carry them home to roost forever on sleepy shelves. To then shoo them out into the cold, in their tattered jackets? Unfeeling, to abandon an orphan like that. But I recently steeled myself to the task…
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CBT
I’ve been doing CBT for the last month or so. I started out very, very sceptical because to my mind, it’s patching over the problem by teaching you methods to quell your anxieties or the symptoms thereof, rather than actually ‘solving’ them. And to be blunt, it is all common sense. There’s nothing in CBT…
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Books Again
I’m reading Made in America by Bill Bryson. Lord, that man is a researcher. The amount of STUFF he crams into a book is just unbelievable and it’s all intensely interesting, funny and surprising. The book is a wandering ramble through American place names, natural history, inventions, early legal scraps, the relationship with the Old…
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