Reflections

Summer in the City – Outrage and Being Real

One of my supervision clients, Susan*, works in a large hospice. She is called upon to manage death day and night. These deaths rarely fit the romantic picture of slipping…

Summer Restoration – what’s your guilty pleasure?

Picture the scene: I’m standing in a field at a festival in East Sussex surrounded by my mates, the opening chords of “Can You Feel It?” by The Jacksons thrum through the…

Impatient for better stories to live by

“We don’t describe what we see; we see what we describe.”Joe Jaworski It’s high Spring – a time of blossom, bursting forth, renewal, but also a time of volatile weather,…

My weekend with St Brigid

We’ve just passed Imbolc – the mid point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. We’ve survived the darkest quarter of the year and the first sniffings of Spring are…

That inter-regnum period

It’s that inter-regnum period when the festivities which mark the turning of the year are over but Spring has not yet come – except that with the rain and spells…

Winter Solstice – the stitch that is yours to sew

Today is the Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. From tomorrow onwards, the days will be imperceptibly longer as we start the journey…

Who’s got your back?

I'm so proud of my Auntie Mary - she was a woman ahead of her time. During the war she worked on the Enigma Code - transcribing the German U-Boat transmissions which…

Autumn Equinox – And what I learnt from doing standup comedy

I’ve always loved autumn – that feeling of settling and clarity after the striving of spring and the muzziness of summer. I still get that “back to school” feeling of a new academic…

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