This is not actually an introductory course in Introspection. Just some gentle encouragement and advice for those contemplating a new hobby. Note I’m not a professional, but I do have a lifetime’s experience in overthinking! I don’t think introspection has ever been a particularly widely valued skill in our modern lives, and is one of …
Category Archives: people-y stuff
Heart Without Expectation
Or, The Lesson My Son Taught Me That No One Else Could My eldest son, Ryan, is 14 years old. For me, that was an age of growing apart from family. Of buying into all the teenage clichés of resenting parents, rebelling, feeling like I didn’t fit in. As a parent with my first teenager, …
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The following was the result of a writing exercise for the Elephant Academy course; the prompt we were given was ‘Tell a story about a time in your life when you felt carefree, creative, and totally in the moment. Use the senses and all the W’s (who, what, where, when, why).’ The ten minute window …
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