Megan Hills
"my thing-ster"
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I've just finished reading Tim Parks' Teach Us To Sit Still – A skeptic’s search for health and healing.
Tim Parks is known in literary circles as a reputable novelist and translator. This newish book (2010) is NOT 'Sitting Still for Dummies', nor is it a literary novel. Instead Tim took up the challenge to translate [...]
'How to be sick' is a wonderful title for a book – wonderfully confronting when we live in a society that is about avoiding it, denying it, moving on from it. 'Get well soon' cards say a lot.
The idea of accepting that you are sick – right here, right now – doesn't seem to get [...]
I was thinking about the previous post Interview with Michael Nobbs on Sustainable Creativity and Tea and how Michael talked about being creative 'little and often' while feeling like a drugged rhinoceros (my words, not his).
But what if we don't know where to start with this creativity business? And are too tired to work it out?
Don't [...]
Michael Nobbs is a full-time artist, blogger and tea drinker (not necessarily in that order). He is the author of the popular blog Sustainably Creative and writes, tweets and podcasts about drawing and trying to keep things simple.
In the late 1990s he was diagnosed with ME/CFS and, over the last decade, has learnt a lot [...]
It's time for the confessional box. Three friends recently have 'outed' me for archetypal burnout-inducing behaviour. Here's what happened…
Making breakfast
A wildlife photographer buddy recently returned from a world trip. He had toured Japan, Turkey, South America and eastern block Europe. He had seen a lot of life – and of how different people and animals [...]
Eating can be tricky when you are burnt out. Culinary exploration isn't usually top of mind. We're often too tired to muster a meal that involves one food group let alone three. So it's not surprising when easy-reach 'comfort food' (chocolate, fast food, etc.) can become as seductive as heroin.
Just to keep things interesting, those [...]
Drugs. It's a wonderful word, isn't it? Say the word 'drugs' to someone and you are destined to raise some kind of emotion in them (fear, hatred, glee, etc). But what that emotion is will depend on that person's relationship to drugs.
What do you think about drugs?
You might reply, 'It depends..are we talking street-roaming or [...]
'Creativity' is a word that is being bandied around a lot lately. Many around the world are yearning to do something 'more creative'.
But this doesn't necessarily mean they believe they actually can be more creative. Why? Because one of two comments generally follow:
'Creativity isn't going to pay the bills', and
'I'm not artistic.'
For those with [...]
Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make the morning last.
Just kicking down the cobble stones.
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy.
Ba da, Ba da, Ba da, Ba da…Feelin' Groovy…
I've got no deeds to do,
No promises to keep.
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep.
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me.
Life, I [...]
What do you do if you are too tired to work and you don't have a sugar daddy?
It's a damn shame that many those in our society who suffer from chronic illnesses also have the additional worry of "How the hell am I going to pay my bills??" This nagging question seems to raspberry recovery [...]
