Throughout the holiday period I have been enjoying reading poems while pondering on quotations and sayings written by others. It’s amazing where they appeared at times. Sometimes in a musty volume. Other times in a shop window just like the one featured below entitled ‘In This House…’ In the midst of this I even added [...]
Emerson writes in his lecture to divinity students that, ‘The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life – life passed through the fire of thought.’ I agree with the master of philosophic thought, because for me to be an effective writer and communicator I need to [...]
I was recently reviewing a random selection of my journals – I currently have forty of these on my home office bookshelf that cover a period of thirty years. In these precious volumes I have recorded the intimate reflections of my thoughts, my dreams, my concerns, my plans, my hopes and my desires. And as [...]
Some of the most disabled people that I have ever come across in my life were not ill, had both legs, both arms, were in their right state of mind and to look at them close up, had nothing that would have denoted them as disabled at all. However, when it came to dealing with [...]
Just the other night I encouraged my youngest daughter to start journaling. I have kept a journal for well over two decades now, and I know it is because of that habit that I have developed as a writer and have written more than half a dozen books – many of them bestsellers in my [...]
It’s now been well over twenty years since I started to keep a journal of some sort or fashion, and I know for a fact that it is because of my daily, weekly or occasional doodles, when I poured out my heart onto the page of my secret journal, that clarity often came and plans [...]
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