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My Toddler hasn’t slept properly in 6 weeks (neither have I)
Then she developed diarrhoea and her stomach has not been the same since, now she complains that her tummy hurts alot of the time and is not just aware of passing urine and stool but is frightened of it, despite now having gotten over the illness. ... So if your child suddenly develops an... »
21st century blues
20 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... so my 20 month old daughter woke me one night and by the time we had got her back to sleep I could no longer lie still and I went to the kitchen made a cup of tea, lit a fire and surfed the net and I found... »
Mastoiditis – ear infections in children
22 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So last saturday my daughter woke with her right ear sticking out, as she has rather petite flat ears this was a little odd. She has just has 4 teeth come through at the same time and had spent a week with her temperature going up a... »
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistos (hermes the thrice great)
24 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Corpus Hermeticum This is part of one of the great esoteric texts, and is a statement of positive existence The Tablet probably first appeared in the West in editions of the psuedo-Aristotlean Secretum Secretorum which was actually a translation of the Kitab Sirr al-Asrar, a book of advice to... »
Right here right now
22 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Where ever you are, who ever you are, whatever your journey, whatever you are seeking, what ever you have found, who ever you are with….STOP What you need is right here, right now. Stop looking, stop searching, stop wanting to discover the secret, the hidden meaning, stop praying, stop mediitating,... »
Barbara Allen
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a child I can remember my mother singing this, and when I was ill which I was often, with bronchitis and asthma, I used to ask her to sing it to me and it helped me sleep. Its an old ballad and there are many versions... »
Birth and Babies – Pressures on your relationship
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Most people will tell you having a baby draws you closer together, because it is a wonderful and miraculous thing. It involves a special shared intimacy and care both for the baby and your partner. However pregnancy, birth and the babies early months can put a lot of... »
A New Baby – Colic
36 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Perhaps I spoke too soon , as our baby continued not to sleep and to exhibit signs of digestion discomfort and colic. We began to realise that when she did sleep this was due to total exhaustion (imagine how we felt) and whilst in all other respects she... »
Babies: The first 3 weeks
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Every child is different, their pregnancy is different, their birth is different and their parents are different, so this is not “The Truth” is a truth as it worked for me. The birth was luckily short and we were home with our Baby Isis isabel by the end of... »
A quiet hairdryer
61 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I work at home (wah)on a Wednesday, oh yes I know all the jokes, but I really do and I am more productive because of it. I am more productive not just on that day at home but also when I get back to my place of work. On... »
Another wake up call
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... i have lived so long on the edge of society or perhps in the grey area and with a real sense of being alive that i had forgotten the soporific nature of buckling down to regular 9 to 5 work and living closer to the centre. I... »
Wake up
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I bought a book called lucid living by Timothy Freke, perhaps not so aptly named but enough to spark an interest, its a small book claiming ” a book you can read in an hour that will turn your world inside out” and believe me it does. He... »
Designer something and adorno
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I am still such a sucker, for Nissan Figaro and Pao Cars for seiko designer watches and other rubbish I don’t really need. Why is it the appearance of things is so beguiling, why in all my psychology and spirituality can I not see through to the... »
Early Retirement
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... For the retiring among you This story reminds us of what we strive, for perhaps what acheivement really means, it sets out a value system, and challenges it… A boat docked in a tiny African coastal village. An tourist complimented a local fisherman on the quality of his fish and... »
Erotica
1 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Erotica In my search for an understanding of the erotic I turned as a first resort to poetry, buying a book of sensual and erotic verse down through the ages and then found the poem in a book elsewhere, but the question of what we find erotic must also... »
Your Destiny or Your Destination?
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... What exactly is it you want from God? This has been inspired by Steve’s article on Which part of Jesus do we want? which i turn was inspired by this Guardian article by Giles Frazer. Having been ill or below par for over a month now and writing... »
The Wrong Job
4 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... In the wrong job? In the wrong Life?…or a bad hair day. aaaahhhh, I haven’t written anything for ages, it feels like I have been fighting off a virus, a cold, bronchitis for about a month, then I see my website described as a blog by a man... »
Written in Northampton County Asylum – John Clare
18 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... John Clare I heard a radio play about John Clare and was fascinated by both his poetic grace and his life as a world turned upside down… I am! Yet what I am none cares or knows. By John Clare Written in Northampton County Asylum I am: yet what I am none cares... »
Sussex by The Sea
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Seaside I love being by the sea, and if I am in a hot country, I like to swim, the best bit about being by the sea, is… Just lying on the beach and soaking up the warmth. In sussex is a little coastal town of Seaford, it like... »
The best way to deal with children: Listen!
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... 5 minutes more well it has been work work work as we moved offices (june 2004) and I worked over weekends and non stop to make sure everyone was happy and all worked well. At the end of it i was left feeling very overtired and had a short tempered... »
President Bush and the Masons
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Feel the fear….and do nothing as usual What ever it is that you are afraid of, what worries you, whats bad in the world, hate, greed, inequality, violence, what are you actually doing about it or to make it worse. I get tired of people who complain, sometimes... »
Self Absorbed Blogs
4 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Self absorbed blogs So are all blogs mainly self absorbed,,,the answer is probably yes, so I thought I ‘d have abreak from wisdom and think about hwat I was going to do with the rest of my working life…because most of the work I seem to do at the... »
New Year
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Happy New Year I have always seen the turning of the year, at Christmas, or the December equinox on December 23rd, and have never really understood the celebration arounf 31st Dec/1st January. Perhaps it never meant much in my family growing up and as a young man was... »
A Poem for Christmas.
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Inside me (are three wise men) by Jonathan Spencer Inside me are people turned away from The warmth of the hearth In the town of their birth They have arrived But they are lost An uneasy silence settles A pregnant pause They are sent... »
The Blues
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Blues have been a big influence in my life…my father a Jazz musician and writer…he wrote for Jazz Journal in the UK and a discography of Art Tatum with Arnold Laubich as well a a book called the Jazz Piano Players Handbook, which I would love to... »
Discover Your Totem Animal.
4 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The bear I often use the name of ‘the bear’, as a nickname or pen name and it is a name that has followed me around a bit, I got it from an exercise which helps you discover your native totem, in the Western Way or Western Tradition. “all... »
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