Collaboration
I had therapy a lot last year, for lots of different reasons and it changed a lot about me. I have a long way to go but the very process was so healing. I mention it here as I just picked up an email from my therapist, to see how I am. A truly lovely chap and someone I totally admire.
I want this blog and whatever it will become to be positive. Yes I write about darkness and dark people and damage and sociopaths and all sorts of awful things but only with a view to managing them and actually avoiding the collateral damage.
I had a long conversation about denial yesterday. I have many, multiple flaws but the one thing I do, it has often been said I have more courage than sense, is face where I am and what I have going on.
I do not 'do' denial. However rubbish, ghastly, on occasion shameful things are I look at them, try to understand and try to learn, heal and grow.
I am working on a huge project based on the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement. William Morris inspired.
On a chilly Sunday when I am all about collaboration I thought I might just put this here.
“Wealth is what Nature gives us and what a reasonable man can make out of the gifts of Nature for his reasonable use. The sunlight, the fresh air, the unspoiled face of the earth, food, raiment and housing necessary and decent; the storing up of knowledge of all kinds, and the power of disseminating it; means of free communication between man and man; works of art, the beauty which man creates when he is most a man, most aspiring and thoughtful – all things which serve the pleasure of people, free, manly, and uncorrupted. This is wealth.” (from ‘Useful Work versus Useless Toil’, 1884).
I want this blog and whatever it will become to be positive. Yes I write about darkness and dark people and damage and sociopaths and all sorts of awful things but only with a view to managing them and actually avoiding the collateral damage.
I had a long conversation about denial yesterday. I have many, multiple flaws but the one thing I do, it has often been said I have more courage than sense, is face where I am and what I have going on.
I do not 'do' denial. However rubbish, ghastly, on occasion shameful things are I look at them, try to understand and try to learn, heal and grow.
I am working on a huge project based on the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement. William Morris inspired.
On a chilly Sunday when I am all about collaboration I thought I might just put this here.
“Wealth is what Nature gives us and what a reasonable man can make out of the gifts of Nature for his reasonable use. The sunlight, the fresh air, the unspoiled face of the earth, food, raiment and housing necessary and decent; the storing up of knowledge of all kinds, and the power of disseminating it; means of free communication between man and man; works of art, the beauty which man creates when he is most a man, most aspiring and thoughtful – all things which serve the pleasure of people, free, manly, and uncorrupted. This is wealth.” (from ‘Useful Work versus Useless Toil’, 1884).
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