Wild Dreams
Do you ever get mad at certain words or sentences? I do. Weird, admittedly but I do. This month I’m at odds with the word, ‘but.‘ It all started when I was discussing possible solutions with someone and they kept saying ‘but…‘. Each suggestion I made was followed with a ‘but‘ and then the reason […]
Female Entrepreneur in Search of Balance
When I had my first son, along with the exhilaration of giving birth to my angel came the need to adopt new habits. For example, the day I made plans go to out with friends. It was only after I got off the phone I realised I’d seen myself going out with my friends but […]
Question: Is this conjecture or fact?
Is this conjecture or fact? Over the last few years I’ve collated a small pot of questions to guide me through rough terrains. The question, “Is this conjecture or fact?” was crafted because of my overactive imagination. It literally takes a nano second for me to dream up a picture so grim that it stops […]
Containing Your Fires
Recently, one of my boys was so naughty that it affected my entire day. Let’s rephrase that. Son misbehaved and I didn’t work all day. I was at work but got nothing done as I oscillated between anger and regret, questions on where I went wrong and how to move forward from the place we […]
When Words Float
As a child, I used to think that eventually, we’d run into the words we once spoke. I thought that although words were invisible, they were tangible and they’d float around until we bumped into them. Guys, I had an active imagination! This week I’ve been thinking about thoughts and feelings. Specifically how our thoughts […]
Wisdom: not easily obtained
There is always a temptation to talk a lot and empty one’s mind of the many thoughts that run through it; but fewer words selected from a carefully carved out mind carry deep wisdom. It is easy to gather stones from the surface; but skill and hard work is required to mine gold many meters […]
