Tag: blogging101
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What We Can Learn From Zen Dog
It’s the weekend, so here’s a bit of fun. Today’s post is short, sweet but no less significant. So simple and yet so profound. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…. Zen Dog.
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I’ve Dreamed Of This
“I’ve dreamed of this. This is the plane I’ve always wanted to go on. All buckled up? Seatbelts on? The jets have fired up! No that’s someone else’s jets. Don’t worry. We’ll be next.” To many people, an Easyjet flight from Manchester to Malaga isn’t a big deal and in fact it can be…
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The Amazing New Thing
I saw this cartoon a few weeks ago in the New York Times called ‘The Amazing New Thing’ and it made me think of FOMO. An apparently recent sociological phenomenon standing for the ‘Fear Of Missing Out’, although you and I may know it as a variation of the old adage ‘the grass is always…
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A Hugely Powerful And Simple Gesture
It’s a beautiful, sunny morning in Granada and I’m having coffee outside in a local bar and yet, I’m on the verge of tears. I’ve just been reading an article on Twitter about a policeman whose job it was recently to tell an 18-year old boy that his parents had been killed in a car…
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Being Away From The Noise In Granada
Hi There are many different reasons why we may want to get away from the noise of our daily lives and there are countless ways to help you do so. This blog is my way of doing that. I live in Granada in the south of Spain, write songs on my slightly battered acoustic guitar…
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50 Granada Haikus
After having written a few posts here, I thought I’d try something different today and so with this in mind, it seemed like a good idea to post a blog of the daily haikus I wrote in my first three months in Granada last year. For those who may not be familiar with haikus, there are…
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Embracing The Melancholy
It’s been raining here recently and while looking out at the downpour earlier today, it got me thinking about the nature of water. In the same way that perhaps water embraces and absorbs the energy around it to move forward, I noticed I was doing the same today. I walk a lot here in Granada and when it’s…
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So What Do You Want?
So what do you want as opposed to what don’t you want? When asked what they want to do with their lives, one of the most common initial responses is a list of things that people don’t want to do, before or even if they get round to telling you what they do in…
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Too Scared To Publish?
If you read the previous post to this Endless Blue Angel Mondays you may be wondering why I posted a short story as opposed to something about ‘inspiring positive simplicity’. Well, to be honest, I was trying to challenge myself to do something different in line with another previous post Another Day To Do Something…
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Another Day To Do Something Different
To many, today is just another day. To others, it’s a new day. A chance to look at things differently to the way you usually do. If you usually travel on the same route, what’s stopping you trying something different? If you usually look straight ahead, try looking up every now and again. What do…
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So What’s Next?
I started this blog in October, so at only a few weeks old of posting daily (including the transfer of a number of posts from a previous website I had) and since the end of the latest Blogging101 project, I thought I’d take stock of how things have gone. Firstly, I’d like to thank everybody who follows…
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What We Can Learn From Playing Tennis
While walking around recently, I noticed a boy of about 12 years old hitting a tennis ball against a wall with his tennis racket. Perhaps he was practising for a match or maybe he was just having fun. Either way, he didn’t have any friends around to impress so he was clearly motivated to do…
I Am Away From The Noise 