Short and Sometimes Sweet

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. A lot has happened in the past few weeks. A lot of life changing stuff, serious stuff that has made me stop and think that maybe someone somewhere has a voodoo doll of me and is constantly sticking pins in me. I've had times where I thought I was going crazy, times I've cried myself to sleep, times I've just cried. There's been a pity party going on with my name the only one on the guest list. It's not always easy when relationships break down, especially 30 year old ones. But we'll always be friends no matter what else the future holds.  Stars and references to stars have followed me all my life. So much so that I feel an affinity with them. In work, all the children are given symbols beside their names. This gets them used to recognising their own names and their own belongings. We try to pick symbols that reflect their personality in some way. W...

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”—Confucius My last blog post was on 16 May last so I thought it was about time I updated things. As many of you know, my life has thrown some major challenges at me these past few months. The first major challenge was that I took ill last April.  I've spoken on this before, but for those that don't know I was diagnosed with cellulitis that turned into sepsis. It nearly killed me, and only for my daughter Anna nagging me to go to the doctors it would have been fatal. So I thank her for that. I've been on intensive antibiotic therapy since then. It makes me very ill, and at times I can't keep food down but it's got to be done. I have since had 2 relapses which have set me back a lot.                                                       I'm also going through some ...