Notes on My Life

excerpts from notes on my life

  • Protected: Begin with the End in Mind

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  • Era’s End

    Here I am, now. Looking backwards, looking forwards, too, I have come to realise that it is now time to make a break from the past and put it firmly, resolutely, behind me. I must pack my bags, carefully. Load up the car and say my goodbyes. It is time to grow, time to leave… Read more

  • Things I Haven’t Said, Yet

    I am on day 4 of a hangover. A classic slip-up, a party between friends but mostly new acquaintances, where I was flooded by social anxiety and drank way too much, non-stop even, until 4 am. So I am still hungover, questioning everything, raw, exposed, compromised, and worried for my mental and emotional health. I… Read more

  • Anniversary

    My mother died a year ago today, on the 29th of January, which is also my sister’s birthday. However this came to be, I cannot imagine why it did, but it is so. Seeing as it is not my birthday, I can easily say what a special day it is to share, of one soul… Read more

  • Presence, Distractions, Avoidance

    Today is the 16th of January. It is getting very close to the year anniversary of my mother’s death, which is also my sister’s birthday. I want to call her, my sister that is, but I don’t know what to say. I don’t want to have a long conversation. I don’t want to choose the… Read more

  • On Writing

    Well, I’ve done it. Eighty thousand words on my life. Notes, ramblings, thoughts, pain, pleasure, reflections, all of them finally pasted into one big document. Sometime into this I thought I should try to turn them into a book. Six months ago, while doing a coaching program in project development that was really at the… Read more