At the age of about 3 or 4 my mother left England returning to Africa with her family because her father, an engineer in the British Army, was stationed in East Africa for the tail end of World War II. The family moved into a very simple dwelling in the Katavi region of what was then Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and there she enjoyed a carefree childhood for a few years. At the age of 7 my mother’s mother died from cerebral malaria leaving behind 4 children, the youngest only 18 months old. Distraught and at a loss with what to
Monthly Archives: June 2016
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." Sylvia Plath
"Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it."
Philip Larkin
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart."
Sue Monk Kidd
"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."
Susan Sarandon
Our family is the first groups we belong to. They teach us how to behave in other groups. Think about where you sat in your family dynamic on the scales outlined in the activity. Were you more included or excluded in activities and conversations? Did you cause chaos and drama or try to induce peace and calm? Were you the one challenging the rules and comments made by your parents / care givers and siblings or were you the one who listened and did what was told? What about leading – did you dominate conversations and events or
"Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together."
John Green
"The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others."
Erik Erikson
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
Paul Klee