‘Be quiet and do as you’re told.’ So I did, because that’s how ‘good girls’ behave. And I carried on doing that for decades because I believed it. In a perfect world, we would all be loved unconditionally, but in reality, love comes with conditions. From an early age, many of us have been surrounded by messages from the authority …
Letting go
A couple of years ago I rescued a banana plant. It was sitting on a bench at the garden centre with some other bedraggled specimens ‘going cheap’. I was still mourning the loss of a beautiful tree fern that had succumbed to the frost earlier in the year (rather, I had neglectfully not covered it). It was early autumn so …
Soul searching
How is it with your soul? No, I’m not asking about your extensive collection of Aretha Franklin LPs but you – your soul. (Perhaps you’re already running for the hills from this kind of talk but hang around). What do I mean when I talk about ‘soul’? Does it have to be ‘religious’? Try a quick Google and you’ll discover …