Cultivate Your Creativity

. Cultivate Your creativity . In gardening Baking . Painting And writing . Singing And play . Tidying Planning . Living And loving . Treasure Your joy . And the creative Way. . Image by ddzphoto on Pixabay

Awaiting Interpretation

Snow’s silent Whiteness . Is like a Blank . Waiting for footprints That will be . The writing of human life On nature’s page . Awaiting Interpretation.

The Forces of the Universe

. Nothing between the trees and the far star . So open to the forces of the universe . And I share Their vulnerability. . Van Gogh, 'The Starry Night'

Make Me Move in Your Measure

. Mighty God maker of all things . Whose home Is in heaven . And in My heart . Make me move In your measure . Have and hold This man's heart . That you Made. .

How to Write (3)- Read a lot!

"He who would write must read"Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was writing in the 18th century, so forgive the male pronoun, but I am a great believer in this principle that good reading goes hand in hand with good writing. If we are going to write seriously, we need to have something to say. I find …

How to Write (2) – Deliberate practice

I work in education and I am a great believer in a theory called "deliberate practice". This highlights the insight that when we practise things in the right way, we get better at them. It's also true, though, that we can hit plateaus if we don't have good models to help us, or encouragement, or …

How to Write (1) – You’ve got to want to

Thank you for reading my blog. Wherever you are in the world, just the fact you are reading this post is a blessing to me. This short series is designed to share what I have learned about the mysterious and wonderful art of writing in the hope that it might be of some use to …

A Year of Inspirers (17): “The earth, the seas, the light…” of Thomas Traherne

. He is the poet of joy and ecstatic lines: . . He is the poet of wonder: . . Thomas Traherne, who is commemorated on 10th October, wrote about "flow" long before the contemporary psychologist Csikszentmihalyi did... . . Thomas Traherne's poetry was only discovered in the 20th century, though he lived in the …

More Than Mere Survival

. More Than mere survival . Life is for Love . When this is Not learnt . From birth It may be sent . From above Or from . A heart Of the earth. . Image by kien virak from Pixabay

Body, Mind and Soul

. Created In that overwhelming image . No wonder We could never . Fully fathom The depths . Of the human Whole . And struggle To comprehend . The meaning Of body . Mind And soul. .