Month: May 2022

📅 Thought for today: ‘The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.’ — G K Chesterton #thoughtfortoday #travel #tourism #travelling #writing #reportage Today a trip to the Cotswolds to look at houses. English countryside at its finest, and English weather at its most capricious. There is something about…

📅 Thought for today: ‘A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.’ — Jonathan Swift #thoughtfortoday #spending #saving #money #head #heart #piggybank #MartinsBank This picture is of my very first “piggybank”. Clearly, it is not a pig, it is a grasshopper. I doubt many of my connections remember Martins…

📅 Thought for today: ‘There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.’ — Rod Serling #thoughtfortoday #twilight #zone #mystery #Serling #middleground #superstition #science Rod Serling…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.’ — Rainbow Rowell #thoughtfortoday #art #artist #artistry #meaning #looking #feeling #moved In keeping with my commitment to Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way”, I had an Artist’s Date yesterday. And just for good measure, I shared it with…

📅 Thought for today: ‘A friend is a gift you give yourself.’ — Robert Louis Stevenson #thoughtfortoday #gift #giving #coach #mentor #friend #friendship Clive Weston and I have known each other for more than 30 years. When we first met, I was a young manager, and he was an almost as young coach and educator.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they’re right in front of your face and they’re really difficult, but we must make them.’ — Brittany Murphy #thoughtfortoday #life #decision #decisions #difficult #scary #decide Life is indeed full of decisions. Some seem obvious, and some seem difficult. We…

📅 Thought for today: ‘The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.’ — Dolly Parton #thoughtfortoday #rain #rainbow #unique #storms #sunshine We had some big rain showers and even a thunderstorm yesterday. I had to walk into town to collect my car from a repair and…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Everything is in an attitude of mind, and at this moment I am in a comfortable attitude. I will sit still and let the marvels and the adventures settle on me like flies. There are plenty of them, I assure you. The world will never starve for want of wonders, but…

📅 Thought for today: ‘You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.’ — Robin Williams #thoughtfortoday #insane #insanity #spark #madness #funnyman #RobinWilliams #sad One of my supervision tutors is fond of saying, “We’re all insane really when you think about it.” Who is to say what is sane, and insane? Only…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.’ — Robert Wilson #thoughtfortoday #counterpoint #reframe #negative #positive #opposite I am thinking counterpoint, not in the musical sense of the word, but in…