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Growing older

Life’s not a dress rehearsal

by Jan on March 10, 2010

I want to live vividly, don’t you? I get the idea that life is not a dress rehearsal, I really do. But sometimes that call comes along with some sneaky ‘shoulds’ attached.  Should make the best of our one go at it.  That one take.  Should make sure it’s critically acclaimed, a crowning achievement, the [...]

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Snowdrops

by Jan on February 25, 2010

Like me, like you Snowdrops Find themselves stuck in hard places. Hostile places. Like me, like you They have an instinct to grow And so they push against the frozen soil And finally, unseen, pop out Into the sunshine. Whereupon Like me, like you They are snowed on, iced over, pelted with hailstones, Stung by [...]

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I don’t believe in ageing

by Jan on December 14, 2009

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Virginia Woolf

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Fountain of youth

by Jan on December 1, 2009

  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. Sophia Loren

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Writing to learn, and writing to understand what the learning is

by Jan on November 25, 2009

I’d like to share a story with you. It starts kind of sad, but the ending is very joyful, very jubilant: In 1995, I bought a beautiful plain notebook with a specific intention. I’d always been a note-taker, a list-maker, but this was quite different. This journal was to be my companion as I sat [...]

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