Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.’ — Paul Simon #thoughtfortoday #improvise #livemusic #Birmingham #tangerinedream #music #therapy #coaching Last night I went to a gig, my first this year (I missed two due to Covid). It was to see Tangerine Dream in Birmingham, so an overnight stay and they played…

📅 Thought for today: ‘One of my favourite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.’ — Frank Zappa #thoughtfortoday #agree #disagree #change #opinions #pushing #pulling I ended up with a Frank Zappa quote and that makes me smile. Zappa was…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I’m always late for things and always feel like I’m rushing.’ — Poppy Delevingne #thoughtfortoday #rushing #urgency #slowdown #bepresent #takeyourtime #becurious “Slow things down, take your time.” The words of my supervision teacher, Joan, but also I realise, the words of my therapy teacher, Gill. This seven-year journey of mine, heading…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.’   — Neil Gaiman   #thoughtfortoday #death #friend #love #memories #legacy   Being…

📅 Thought for today: ‘And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?’ — Thomas Babington Macaulay #thoughtfortoday #death #friend #love #memories #legacy A long-time friend of mine died this week. Many of the people I know on both Facebook and LinkedIn…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity.’ — Philippa Perry #thoughtfortoday #war #greed #atrocity #mentalhealth #email I saw Philippa Perry on television last night, and she said something that struck a chord. In fact, I…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.’ — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #thoughtfortoday #iwd2022 #culture #celebration #stepbystep It is International Women’s Day today and I’m thinking about the…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.’   — Jessica Lange   #thoughtfortoday #skunk #politics #fear #weaponofchoice #ukraine   This.   Are we becoming less tolerant and forgiving?   I’m not sure, but it is easy to assume so when you read so much in social media about…

📅 Thought for today: ‘In politics, one must deal with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.’ — Joseph Gurney Cannon #thoughtfortoday #skunk #politics #fear #weaponofchoice #ukraine Joe Cannon was a Republican Party leader and speaker of the house. It is ironic that this is his…

📅 Thought for today: ‘One should never start one’s day without a complete spin of Dark Side of the Moon.’ — Sienna McQuillen #thoughtfortoday #time #eclipse #breathe #darksideofthemoon #pinkfloyd #money #memories On this day three years ago, a year before we were locked down, I posted this picture from a gig by a Pink Floyd…