by Kathryn | 25 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Five
Jump straight to today's prompt here. My mother, who had five children and a very busy life, would sometimes shout, ‘I can’t hear myself think!’. Sometimes I feel so full up with the world – with its noise and tastes and busyness – that I can’t hear my own...
by Kathryn | 24 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Five
Jump straight to today's prompt here. When I was about six years old, my nine-year-old brother and I caught the bus on our own to the docks in my city. When we got there, we gazed up at the huge ships with their flags from other countries, and we watched the pallets...
by Kathryn | 23 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Five
Jump straight to today's prompt here. In the 1940’s the American psychologist Carl Rogers developed the idea of ‘unconditional positive regard’. He didn’t invent the action, or the feeling, of unconditional positive regard, but rather gave voice to something that he...
by Kathryn | 21 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Five
Jump straight to today's prompt here. In our culture, vice is sexier than virtue. The Seven Deadly Sins are the fun guys. Greed, lust, gluttony; who wouldn’t want to be at that party? Virtues, not so much. We somehow think of virtue as the quiet cousin, the one...
by Kathryn | 20 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Five
Jump straight to today's prompt here. My late father-in-law loved people. He celebrated their successes, and he was curious about their lives. It was one of the reasons I loved him. He was the best person to sit in a café with, eavesdropping on conversations. It did...
by Kathryn | 19 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Five
Jump straight to today's prompt here. In Bird by Bird, the creative life-force that is Anne Lamott writes, “You own everything that happened to you. Every story you own is yours. If people wanted you to write more warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”...
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