How are you, you ask me, and I say: I was fine last time I looked. You probably think I’m joking, but I’m dead serious – you see, the answer is deep inside me, and I can’t keep looking in there all the time or I’ll get nothing done. And I don’t think you actually [...]
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A new question
Trying to learn to take better care of myself, I’m teaching myself to ask a new question:
Do I love myself enough to resist this cake?
For “cake” read: anything that looks very tempting but I know is not good for me.
Beautiful
Beautiful.
It’s cold but there’s
glorious sunshine outside
and I just saw a couple of squirrels
running across the back fence
That’s all I wanted to say.
Sometimes this is how my day starts
Sometimes this is how my day starts:
Waking
and feeling that life is
just too much
This is not a cry for help, nor is it a request for advice. I just find it helpful to say it out loud, that’s all. I’ve lived through plenty of days like this, and no doubt, with God’s help, I will get through this one too. Thank you for listening.
Handling disagreements English-style
Exploring differences in culture As an Israeli living amongst the English, I am fascinated by the cultural differences I see. English culture is a lot more polite than ours, and there’s a great emphasis on avoiding confrontation. So they won’t (normally) tell you to your face that they disagree with you, they’d present their disagreement in a [...]
