A Place in the Sun

It's all about the little things that make huge differences.  I had this experience in the last few weeks, to a month. My boat stopped working, and I had serious problems with overheating. I thought the oil was heating, and that I might have been losing coolant.  I refilled both, checked the pipes.  Then I wasked someone to come and help me and he changed an impeller.  BOOM! She works like a dream. The next week, I was complaining about my mop-and-bucket system.  It's mechanical - but I wasn't cleaning properly.  Rummaging in my cupboard, I found a new replacement mop-head. I changed it - VAMOOSH! Nice, fresh floors. My bike wouldn't start.  I knew immediately - I changed a spark plug. Took a few kicks, and he roared back to life. Moral of the story: a very tiny thing can have effect on the entire ecosystem of whatever it is you're dealing with. The English saying goes, 'Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves'.  This...

Earlier this year,  I published my On Grief post. Water has flowed under the bridge daily. I wanted to share some thoughts here. My mentor, Jackey Backman , joined along with me on a holiday and we ended up being 'on retreat' together - mirroring each other and bringing up the other's isuses through being a mirror for each other. She also helped me process things as they came up, while we were travelling. We were out of comms half the time and I kept her busy tapping her phone - not on social media but on a Trip Meter (which is an app that counts metres / kilometres) as we passed important signs and landmarks along our Sicily journey. We had to keep telling each other not to squirrel away in our heads and it was quite funny. BUT there was great learning for both of us, I dare say, and having Jackey along (besides the great company) felt like doing a retreat. We were doing things we don't normally do, sometimes getting uncomfortable (including having ourselves in ...