A character in my favourite musical, Wicked, sings about ‘Dancing through Life’, he proclaims, why invite stress in? Stop studying strife And learn to live “the unexamined life”.. As appealing as his approach may sound, we don’t always have the choice to ‘skim the surface’. Martin Israel writes in his book The Pain that Heals: The […]

Please ensure your own oxygen mask is fitted before helping others. Onboard Flight Information Yesterday I wrote about overcoming the concerns we may have, about whether what we write or say is important, significant or clever enough, by allowing that others may be helped by what we have to say. Today I consider the part

When people start writing they think they’ve got to write something definitive … I think that is fatal. The mood to write in is, “This is quite an interesting story I’ve got to tell. I hope someone will be interested. Anyway it’s the best I can do for the present.” If one adopts that line