July 4, 2021
I’m in supervision having a familiar conversation. “I’ve taken on too much work.” My supervisor smiles but says nothing. I spend the next minute or so explaining what I’ve done, how I had planned to say no to a new project but, in the final shake-up, found it too interesting to reject. I hear myself […]
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June 27, 2021
I can remember once having a conversation with a client who suffered from an array of terrible anxieties in which he told me how hard he found it to either walk or drive across a bridge. One of the phrases I remember uttering to him in the course of the work we did together was […]
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June 20, 2021
We’re driving to Hereford to look at some puppies. The rain is falling in biblical style and has been since leaving home, nearly four hours ago. I call ahead to let the breeder know we’re running late. “Oh, is it raining? We’ve had none here at all,” he tells me. The sky clears when we […]
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June 20, 2021
Coming home from our morning walk in the park I experienced one of those rare moments in which everything seems aligned and joy clicks into place. It was short-lived. I saw the puddle of water on the kitchen floor first, and then, after my brain had started sifting through the possible ways it could have […]
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June 6, 2021
I wake up thinking about how this week’s post isn’t the way I wanted it to be and wonder if it was wise to have drafted it in bed after a late night with friends. The angst makes me think about words written by the Reverend John Ames to his young son in Marilynne Robinson’s […]
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