Sandstorm

It is a sandstorm chasing you.
From which you can run but it will
Overwhelm you eventually and you
Collapse into it. It will blow through
After a while, the stillness and the
Sunlight will reappear.
Eventually, you realise it is better not to exhaust yourself trying to outrun that which cannot be outrun, but to turn around and face it. [...]

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And the Archangel came down from Heaven on high and he did spake….

And verily he sayeth…..Shop ‘til you drop, dude, the sales are on.
The shops stayed open late on Christmas Eve and some were open at 7.00am Boxing Day. If you got panicky inbetween you could visit the virtual sales online throughout Christmas Day. Slow down and take a step back for a second. Why? Should we [...]

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Look around you at Christmas.

I know I revert up into my Headmind, staring with disbelief at people, my inner critic, the whinging old man voice going into overdrive. To me it seems that most people’s over-riding emotion as Christmas Day drags to a close is one of relief. Relief that it went off okay. They have dashed around the [...]

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Bah! Humbug…..and Headmind.

In some respects one can interpret Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” as a parable relevant to Reversal Therapy and, to an extent, Buddhism.
Both these disciplines would agree that we cannot always, if ever, alter exterior events, but what we can change is our perceptions of and attitudes towards them.
The miserly Scrooge, obsessed about wealth and security, [...]

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Stone

Then we are stone
Hoarding memories
Like some soul sick treasure.
Storing our regrets
Rewarding them with inaction.
Then we are stone
Held fast in self made nets
Tearing at a mind that frays.
Living a fraction of the measure
With which we rule our days.
Then we are gone.
8-8-2006.

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Neither here or there

I wander round shops
In a bit of a daze
with an uncertain gaze
And lose track of days.
My thoughts do their best
To line up with the rest
Despite the incessant
cacophany that swamps every shop
And I want it to stop
I came here to shop
Not dance to hiphop.
I sit writing this
My neighbour commences
her sequence of noise
Like a scuttling rat
Ratis Sapien
A [...]

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