… I thought it was tomorrow.

Somehow we’d messed it up. Somehow I’d taken the trip downtown and the person I was to meet hadn’t.

What happens now, apart from the obvious rescheduling dance? What happens to my state of mind? And what happens to my experience of the next hour or so? Read more

I heard a line in a song a while back - ‘I’ve got sunshine in my stomach …‘ (peter gabriel, actually)

A year ago, whilst walking through the woods on the way to the train station, that line jumped out at me again. Perhaps from behind a tree : )

Took me by surprise.

I wondered whether you might? … have sunshine in your stomach, that is.

And then I wondered what if you did?

A thought just occurred to me.

What if the word inspire was really about the ability of a something to draw out the spirit that already exists within a someone.

Rather than fill that someone with ideas & opinions about who they could or should become.

An entire industry might crash : )

‘… all my life I was knocking on the door and when it finally opened, I realised that I had been knocking from the inside.’

I’m probably paraphrasing this (from Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi, I believe) but when I heard it for the first time I got it, and that ‘got it’ was way beyond an understanding of what it meant.

And then I realised that I’d heard it before many many times and in many many ways.

I guess there’s a time and a way for everyone, just not one time or one way.

Suppose it might pay to keep our eyes open without straining them too hard : )

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the words

‘someone somewhere’

A middle-aged someone in the middle of somewhere sat on an over-sized behind glued to an over-used television set.

“I’m not sure they mean it. What they say. Not really.” He said out-loud to no one in particular. Read more