Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives

Compton Bay Isle of Wight

“Despite the well-documented effects of anger, fear, and anxiety on the ability to reason, many programs continue to ignore the need to engage the safety system of the brain before trying to promote new ways of thinking. The last things that should be cut from school schedules are chorus, physical education, recess, and anything else involving movement, play, and joyful engagement.

Buzzard

This evening on the longest day, in the quiet hour between dusk and dark

A Pair of buzzards circled high in twisted soar, angled, banking low

Luna Reflection – A Letter To My Children On Acceptance

 

The scent of Ambre Solaire sun oil mingling with ripe fruit  is one of my earliest memories of a childhood spent on a farm overlooking fields of black currants at the foot of the Sussex Downs. Resurrected by a week of hazy dusky warmth, a heady breath of amber, cream, warm skin and summer heat,

Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives — NatashaBrooks

But what were we to do but dance and breath. For these things can be sensed but never told.

via Waterfall — NatashaBrooks

Weekend Read Listen and Watch

Tall Ship at Dusk, Freshwater Bay

It’s widely accepted that trauma in childhood may predispose towards mental health difficulties in adults, but recent research shows that the effects may be much more far reaching than previously imagined.

Luna Reflection – Simple Travel

Wild Land – Disused Quarry, Newport, Isle of Wight

In the last few weeks, my travels have been modest adventures

Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives

Tall Ship, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight

 

“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

 

Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives

Wireless Fun – Compton Beach, Isle of Wight

“Oh please, oh please, we beg, we pray,

Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.”

Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Photo courtesy of my wonderful friend Anyold Abbie.

A Single Weekend Read – Slow Weekend

 

Full Moon Bantham Sands, Devon

Being an inveterate multi tasker (since when has that been a quality to be proud of?)  I’ve felt, over the past few weeks, a kind of spiralling, out of control.

Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives

 

Solent Buoy

 

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”

― Milan Kundera