Month: August 2021

📅 Thought for today: ‘The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.’ — Sir William Golding #thoughtfortoday #mask #shame #self #WilliamGolding #LordoftheFlies #author #writer #rubbish Golding wrote “Lord of the Flies” in 1954, and I remember reading it sometime in the 1970s. As you would expect,…

📅 Thought for today:  ‘You’re the painter of your life. Don’t give the brush to anyone else.’   — Zaki Anwari   ‘You are the artist of your life. Don’t give the paintbrush to anyone else.’   — Iva Ursano   #thoughtfortoday #ZakiAnwari #afghanistan #humanitarian #fateofnations #UKgovernmentonthebeach   The first quote is the final Facebook…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I’m happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It’s my favorite thing to do, for sure.’ — Zoe Kravitz #thoughtfortoday #happy #watch #watching #peoplewatching #fascination #author I look to sit and watch people in busy spaces. I have had very little opportunity to do this in person for…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.’ — Richard Bach #thoughtfortoday #friends #friendship #acquaintance #companion #like #intimacy #therapy If you know of the writing of Richard Bach then it is most likely to be his book…

📅 Thought for today: ‘To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.’ — Criss Jami #thoughtfortoday #pweakness #vulnerable #strength #leadership #management #coaching Although this is a month of stepping back (and changing direction) I still have a few client sessions. So I have to stop…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.’   — Anaïs Nin   #thoughtfortoday #pottery #writing #drawying #illustration #artist #creativity   One thing I’ve discovered during this step-back…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I do pottery. I love it. It’s very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.’ — Eva Herzigova #thoughtfortoday #pottery #clay #shaping #potterswheel #throwdown #tearsforkeith #beakers #bowls This picture shows my classroom yesterday morning, just before everyone else arrived. Spending hours at the wheel yesterday was both exhausting and exhilarating, in…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!’ — Clarice Cliff #thoughtfortoday #pottery #clay #shaping #potterswheel #throwdown #tearsforkeith #goblets Hurrah and huzzah, the day has finally…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?’   — Michel de Montaigne   #thoughtfortoday #faith #superstition #fables #belief #history #psychology   I am superstitious, and I am amused by it.   I picked it up from my grandmother, and it has…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.’ — Friedrich Nietzsche #thoughtfortoday #thoughts #feelings #shadows #darker #groups #groupthink #involuntary #psychology #WilfredBion I finished “In Love with Supervision”, and in the final chapters marvelled at the description of a study group that went awry. I too have…