Apology for my Absense

I am so sorry to have not been been since mid January. One of the problems at times is that you get so many ideas that you lose track of what you should be doing. That is sort of what has happened, except that I have been using my creativity to come up with stories to tell myself explaining to my inner critic why I haven't done a post on this site.

Does that make sense to you? If it does, I fear it may prove my theory that many creative people are great procastinators. I have written about this here and on other sites, in fact I'm just going to Google my name and procrastination together and see how many things come up...


Back again. Well, there were a few things, articles I'd written and so on on Google, interesting. What about you? Do you ever put off doing things, and tell yourself stories trying to justify yourself to yourself? I'd love to hear some good excuses not to do housework!

Is Life Getting You Down?

If you sometimes feel that life is stacked against you, that nothing ever goes right for you and there is nothing you can do to fix it, you may be a victim of your own Cognitive Distortions.

If you go to this website, you may learn the way to restructure your negative thoughts and find a much better, more positive life.

I am fortunate in that I am not constantly assailed by negative thoughts about my life, and I manage to keep a positive look on my own life most of the time. But if everything looks like it's against you, it can be difficult to look at the bright side to life, because the dark side overwhelms you.

If you feel like this, please take some time to look at your life.

Our lovely schnauzer Aust Ch Holkschter Rangler Jane is gone. I came home yesterday to find she had died. Goodbye, and thank you.

Poetry as Therapy

I have written about this before in many places, and spoken to many people about the benefits of sorting out your head through creative writing. I know it has worked for me, and I know it has worked for other people.

At my writing group we have people with their own skills and their own issues. All of us use our writing to look at the world and at our own lives in some way.

That is what creative writing is, looking at life as we see it and sometimes gaining more control. Some see it as comedy, some tragedy, and these viewpoints affect the kind of writing we create. It doesn't matter whether what we write will ever become a best-selling novel or a much acclaimed poetry collection. What matters is that we are becoming surer in what we think, and we become more whole as human beings.

A website I recommend to others go is one that a writing group member has mentioned several times to the group. I visited the site recently and I was impressed. Anyone interested in writing poetry, even if they don't have any deeper issues they wish to explore, can do the poetry writing exercises and perhaps create something new and special in ways they may not have written before.

The website is Poetic Medicine Institute. It works for me and it can work for you too. We all find our inspiration for our creativity in our own ways and this website has certainly helped me with my creativity. I wrote a poem within a few minutes of looking at the first poetry exercise, and I went places with the poem I would not have gone if I had just sat down with only pen and paper to write it, with nothing there to guide me. Having a list of words to choose from, words given to you by another, leads you to new places.

I strongly believe these new places are already there in our heads, hidden until a light is shone on the darkness and the words can come out and begin to make connections. Connections lead to more connections and can lead to clarity, or at the very least the connections will lead to things to think further on. They lead to becoming more whole as a human being.

Thought for the Day

What you think you know and what you actually know may be two completely things.


I am studying and one of my fellow students has very strong opinions on things. She thinks she knows lots of things and doesn't mind telling us what's what. If I thought she was wrong, and respectfully told her so, she would argue with me on the matter for as long as I wanted the argument to continue.

The argument wouldn't actually go for very long, because I have realised there is no point trying to make this person see any value in my point of view, because they think I am wrong, and they are right. This would possibly be a worry for me, if I hadn't had my viewpoint endorsed by others more knowledgeable than both me and the other person.

My point here is this. If you find yourself having pointless arguments with others, get endorsement first and if people who know agree that you are right and the other person is wrong, give the argument away. Some people are so ignorant that it would take a lifetime to teach them how to think, and unless you are getting paid to teach them, forget it.

Find a better way to spend your time - banging your head against the brick wall of the other person's ignorance is a waste of your time and theirs.