"Emotional maturity is being able to have the difficult conversations." This sentence sent my body in to spasm. Which means nail on head. Well in to my 50s and still so often emotionally in my 00s. There's still so much work to do. You never stop learning. Life is beautiful like that.

He gets it.

Employee = slave

There would be no need for lawyers and judges if we would all just learn to express our resentment in the moment to the one we resent! Pent up resentment is the killer.

Marvellous couple of weeks with eldest daughter and grandson in one country. Now off to visit youngest son in another. My offspring enrich my life. They always have. The hard, hard physical work of the early years and the decade of disrupted sleep was so worth it. As was/is the emotional work when they are older. Motherhood is pure low time preference. Time and energy. That's what counts. Life, with all its ups and downs, is simply magical. What a journey.

I choose love, not fear. I choose to keep technology my servant, not my master. I choose to spend my time with people who radiate positive energy and fill my tank. I choose to spend much of my time in - and learning from - mother nature, for she is humanity"s greatest teacher. I choose to listen to my body and follow its cues. I choose to nourish my soul I choose to nourish my mind. Life is beautiful.

Choose to see the good.

Your culture defines you. Your nationality doesn't. Little booklets with a government stamp on it are meaningless. Values and traditions instilled from birth are what shape you. I would fight for my culture. Not for my nation. Passively aggressive way of saying 'One doesn't have a loud phone call on a packed London train on speaker, does one?'

When in Rome....

Some cultures destroy their own stuff to express their anger. Some do so by destroying the stuff of their neighbours. Some destroy themselves, cos they've learnt to suppress not express their anger. We all know who.

It must be exhausting to never be satisfied. We sure do like to complicate our human experience.

What a wonderful time to be alive.

Deep and meaningful relationships keep on giving. Things don't.

Instead of starting the day with a to 'do' list, I'm going to start the day with a to 'be' list. I am, after all a human 'being'. Once I have established how I want to 'be' that day, (calm, inspired, excited, lazy, productive, sociable ...) then can come the to 'do' list to make my to 'be' happen.

Women have been invading men's spaces for decades. In the name of feminism. In the name of equality. Be careful what you wish for. Brotherhoods are sacred too.