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Yesterday I shared one of John O Donohues blessings for the morning taken from his book ‘To Bless the space between us’; as I read the next few pages of his book this morning I discovered this, its entitled, ‘For a New beginning’ Maybe this is for you, maybe this is for me, every day…
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I have shared before about growing up feeling incredibly alone. In that piece I referred to the fact that the Toxicity of my mother meant that family members were kept at a distance, physical or emotional wedges were dug in place that meant that they stayed away or I was kept away from them. A…
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Wilderness wasn’t a choice I didn’t go, I didnt choose, it wasnt what I had planned It was where I found myself lost confused pushed with no-where else to go asking for help asking for love asking for safety lost..but closer to who I am but I didnt realise it, not at the time I…
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Im writing this in Wetherspoons Newcastle waiting for my hourly train back down the coast. Don’t Judge. I can see the pint of beer for £2.19 or less, and food on the menu with a free drink for under £7. The table is slightly sticky. My bum is on a hard seat, as the more…
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Lying motionless, almost on my small balcony lay a bumble bee in the morning heat today Exhausted Barely clinging on to the edge of the wood, nearly about to drop down a 30ft gap close, to death So I googled what to do and mixed up a combination of water and sugar in a small…
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There was one addiction I had to cure. It wasn’t alcohol, drugs, sex or shopping, it wasnt biting my nails, chocolate or coffee. It was NOISE I had a Noise addiction. Since the tender age of ‘Radio 5 is amazing and I can listen to football matches on it’ about 13, thats what I was…
James Ballantyne 