Sunday Blog 117 – 7th January 2024 Middle of the night musing Perhaps I am strange but I love the gap in the night between my first sleep and my second. A sweet pause where I am refreshed and delivered into the deep quiet of the night. Nothing to do. A clear schedule. Once I …
Tag Archives: Transition
Mulberry Tree
Sunday Blog 116 – 31st December 2023 The last day of year, the last Sunday blog for 2023. Christmas day 2023 was the last one we will ever celebrate in our family home of 65 years. We had three generations make use of a jar and a notebook to write up our favourite memories from …
Your loved ones are not OK
Sunday Blog 114 – 10th December 2023 So often I said this in the last few years – if I could ignite a community movement, it would be to remind people to visit their frail aged loved ones. Now I come to write this, I’m choked by my confusion, mired in my own hesitations. I …
Woo-woo curious
Sunday Blog 111 – 19th November 2023 Buckle up because this Sunday blog is going woo-woo (definition “dubiously or outlandishly mystical, supernatural, or unscientific”) I’m pretty sure my Dad would not love the real estate agent’s description of our family home as “a renovator’s delight”, but, well, it is. That the real estate agent chose …
Ugg Boots
Sunday Blog 110 – 12th November 2023 The scale of the task is almost hypnotising. Clearing out a family home of more than 65 years. We are so lucky we still have Mum. And that we still have some time to do the clear out, it’s not a mad rush. But still. So. Much. To. …
Reflections from the city of ghosts
Sunday Blog 103 – Sunday 24th September It always takes me some time to “arrive” once I return from a trip. One of the biggest mysteries of travel to me not just exploring new places, but also being once again in places that you were before. It’s like re-reading a book over time, when you …
Malevolent bed clothes
Sunday Blog 98 – Sunday 20th August 2023 (It’s still Sunday in Frankfurt!) He was trying very hard to be diplomatic, in the face-to-face interview he was conducting with me for my final recruitment process to become a shelf stacker at Woolies. This was in 2022, when I was still trying to get the right …
Friendships through the decades
Sunday Blog 93 – 16th July 2023 To quote myself, (because frankly, no-one else is) Sometimes I think that all the wisdom of life is contained in E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End, which tackles money, death, friendship and class (among other things). Sunday Blog 37, 22 May 2022https://www.pipbrennan.com/blog/2022/05/23/outgoings-of-this-last-tremendous-tide/ What I loved about the way friendship …
Is it finished?
Sunday Blog 92 – 9th July 2023 I would hate to estimate when it was that I bumped into a woman I did coaching training with – let’s say for argument’s sake it was more than three years ago. She knew I had started a novel in about 2015 which was about the time we …
Life
Sunday Blog 86 – 28th May 2023 Last week at our Saturday morning yoga class, we did a lovely flow sequence where we began and ended in a kneeling position. We cycled through a range of mantras such as “I reach with trust”, “I move forward with enthusiasm”, “I open myself up to possibilities”, “I …