I’ve finished putting up a trellis by the front door so that the jasmine can wind its way up and go some very moderate distance towards soothing the wisteria envy I have for the house on the corner. The fact that the trellis is slightly wonky I take as karma for doing a bit of […]
Smaller Circles
In the fields the dogs are chasing one another, the puppy only in second gear because anything more is far too quick for Daisy. A hard as Daisy runs the pup slips away with a body swerve or a sudden burst of acceleration. The effort is pleasing Daisy, but she’ll never catch the pup and […]
Letting Go As A Form Of Control
“I’m not sure how to help you,” I croak from beneath a blanket of heavy cold. Next to me in the car, my daughter’s face cracks and she begins to cry. I pull out another tissue and try to excavate the accumulation in my nostrils without much success. “I just don’t get it. I know […]
The Observer Effect
“Can you deliver a presentation on What Is Therapy? for Mental Health Awareness Week?” I was asked in an email recently. I sent back a reply, “Sure, that’s no problem.” What could be simpler than a therapist writing about what therapy is? When it came to it though, it was tougher than I’d imagined. What […]
The Virtue Of Avoiding Productivity
When my father died amongst his possessions was a big claret-coloured notebook. He’d bought it to catalogue his vast record collection, a task that sat on his metaphorical “to-do” list for decades He had never written in it, and now he was dead. The paper was a smoothly satisfying alluring cream colour. It was also […]
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