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Monday 27th Feb 2023 Are you an easily offended snowflake? I know I am. I’m offended by injustice and abuse.Spend any time on social media and you’ll find someone complaining about “cancel culture” and “the woke” and “snowflakes.” “We should have free speech” they will protest, and they are right, we should have free speech. …
Friday 24th February, 2023 Love is humble. Have you ever seen the picture of the pale blue dot, or heard Carl Sagan’s speech about it?The picture is taken from the outer limits of our solar system, it shows the earth as a tiny dot in a sea of darkness and space dust. Sagan said “That’s …
Monday 20th February, 2023 When the guy I was just starting a new relationship with threatened to break the legs of another guy who had been flirting with me it should have been a big red flag.Instead, I thought it was romantic. I fell in love, we got married and…. Well you know the rest. …
Friday 17th February, 2023 “Kindness. n. the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate” A few years ago, following the death of Caroline Flack the hashtag #bekind trended as people urged one another to treat others as you wish to be treated, because you never know the pain someone is hiding inside. ‘Do unto others’ …
Monday 13th February 2023 ‘The Queue’ is a British institution, we’re good at waiting, at being orderly, polite, biting our stiff upper lip and limiting our complaints to muttering under our breath. Well some of us are at any rate. I don’t think it’s a skill I’ve ever really mastered, though at least since the …
Remember the Love Is Cartoons? They depicted both the romantic “when he reads you poetry” and the ordinary “when you trust her to cut your hair” reminding us that whilst love can be romantic it’s so much more than that. When we talk about love today we tend to think of sentimentality, or of “falling …
Weds 8th February 2023 Increasingly professionals who work in health and social care are striving to make the way they work ‘trauma informed’ This is because psychologists believe that the impact of trauma and adversity can cause lifelong problems. Studies have identified adverse childhood experiences such as experiencing domestic abuse, losing a parent to death …