Coming to a realisation that I need to change Thought for the Day: When the lives we lead seem fruitless, start by looking inward at what you need to change about yourself. It has been a hard start to the year for me. New job, new habits, old habits still…

Go easy on yourself It is easy to say, “lighten up” or “go easy on yourself”, but another thing to do it. In the end “some things do take time” to both understand fully, see the benefits of doing it and actually doing it. Are you your worst critic, do…

Does it help our ongoing conversations? — I have been writing now for quite a long time, though only for a year on Medium. I have never done it for the money, which is good seeing as I have never made more than $1 a month since I started on Medium. This isn’t about me making a…

Making life choices — I heard the title of this article on a TV show in the UK, where they followed what happed in an Emergency Room (A&E) for 24 hours. There was tragedy, pain, sorrow, smiles, love, memories created and shared. The doctor closed the show with…

Without hope, without light For some this is the moment of hope. Hope enveloped in the period of waiting, in the period of Advent. Waiting in expectant hope for the coming of Christmas. Other religions and traditions are also remembering the darkness and delivery from it, by the birth of…

It is easier than you think — Hope is a fragile thing. We cling to it each day in so many ways. Some hope of a better world, a better life, a new way of seeing things, a new dawn in the darkness. Some hope for the end to war and to have peace. Others hope for…

Our daily task for justice and peace The great Mohammed Ali once said that we were better people if we built bridges and not walls between people. How true a saying that is. I can only see things from a long way away, though building walls between communities, countries never…

A challenge to us all The old adage was, “with knowledge, comes power”. In a time where education was for the few, this was certainly true. As times have changed and education has become accessible to a far higher percentage of humanity, then we need to relook at this. So…

How it can unite us or drive us apart The pen is mightier than the sword. I firmly believe this old saying. In the modern era, of mass communication, instantly accessible news, social updates via X and other such things, the access to information is far greater than ever before…