"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
Henry Rollins
16 Nov 2015
Monthly Archives: November 2015
15 Nov 2015
"That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We install hope, again and again." Tom Hanks - Saving Mr Banks
15 Nov 2015
"To live will be an awfully big adventure." J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan
15 Nov 2015
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzu
15 Nov 2015
Living is a creative act. Too often I encounter people who are existing – making do with what life seems to throw their way or somehow waiting for their real life to start; consequently allowing precious days to slip by adventure-less and undifferentiated from the next. There are a range of reasons for why this happens and perhaps at times in our life it is necessary for us to move back from the growing point of creativity and reflect or lie fallow so that we are re-energised for the next inspired act in our lives. I believe that
15 Nov 2015
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” Haruki Murakami
15 Nov 2015
Recently I got dragged along to a work function that initially I didn't really want to attend. It was designed for families, and probably really well set up if you had young children. However, even 3 beverages in, I was bored – I didn’t want to pet small animals (the petting zoo for the children) or have a go on the jumping castle, I could see the magician’s sleight of hand and I was ready to leave. My wife was not in the same frame of mind. My daughter and I decided to partake in one of our favourite pastimes – people
15 Nov 2015
"You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own”. D.M. Dellinger
15 Nov 2015
One of the characteristics of having an uncommon name like Callan is that it can cause you to become self-conscious when you are young. I have mentioned this before in relation to the choice of my children’s names. Growing up I never encountered another soul called Callan. The first time I met another Callan I was in my 20’s. I asked him, “Do you like your name?” He shrugged, smiled and said, “Yeah, I actually do.” Up until then, for me, the name had been burdensome - always having to repeat it, spell it, correct people who
15 Nov 2015
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering ‘bout the big things and asking ‘bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.” Shug Avery from the Color Purple by Alice Walker