A NEW MIND PERHAPS?
Oooooh Lord, here we go. Stepping inside my mind. This will be interesting. Its been a while since I got in there and had a good look around! It was always too cluttered with the alcoholic, drug...
View ArticleWHEN THE SADNESS COMES
Do you get that? It feels like some evil spirit has summoned up blackness from your deepest being; it hurts so bad inside it feels like there’s something trying to claw it’s way out. All you can do...
View ArticleA SPIRITUAL AWAKENING!! WHAT THE HELL IS IT ANYWAY?
Just yesterday, I had a very deep conversation with a fellow alkie about spiritual awakenings, what they were, how they came about and can everyone have them. I love those conversations and I never...
View ArticleCONTEMPLATING HER RECOVERY
She sat on her couch this morning in the silence, coffee in hand brain fuzzy from lack of sleep the light from the window highlighting the lines on her face, her hair loosely tied back. Looking around...
View ArticleQuestions, Answers and a cigarette!
The warmth enveloped her as she lay there, the lavender infused steam gently penetrating her nostrils as water filled her ears and drowned out the sound of the world around her. Cocooned by peace it...
View ArticleHOME…..WHERE IS MINE?
Home! Home is where the heart is Welcome home there’s no place like home where every you lay your hat that’s your home BROKEN HOME. The word “home summons images of different things for different...
View ArticleI’M WAITING FOR GOD
I met a girl today. She sat on a park bench looking out over a lake at a local beauty spot. I sat next to her to watch the ducks swim and jostle each other over pieces of bread some children were...
View ArticleWhat is your substitute for love?
What is your substitute for love? Hmmm I pondered this question the other day as I listened to Madonna sing Drowned world/ Substitute for love from her Ray of Light album on my car stereo. I came...
View ArticleWhere I’m at this sunny June Sunday morning!
8.30am sipping coffee in bed, laptop propped in front of me I ponder this morning’s Daily Inspiration: “Seek God’s guidance, but know that the responsibility to act on it is yours. Lord may I not be...
View ArticleMY NON-CONVENTIONAL MEDITATION
The sun was hot even though it was only 10am, but the wind blew which felt refreshing on my skin. There was nobody around except for a woman in the distance on a grassy hill walking her dog. She was...
View ArticleI WISH I KNEW.
I wish I knew By Nicola O’Hanlon. Like a soothsayer predicting bad omens in the air. I feel it coming and yet I try to ignore what is unignorable . Outside it seems all is perfectly wonderful but the...
View Article2013 In Words.
7.20am on the last day of December 2013. It is so cliché to sit and contemplate the year just past. I’ve managed to thoroughly annoy myself with the fact I feel the need to write my thoughts and...
View ArticleTURNING 39 AND 4 YEARS SOBER
Our childhood stories tell us about happy ever afters, knights on white horses rescuing the damsel in distress and fairies that grant you your greatest wish. Society tells us that being successful is...
View ArticleA visit with my Best Friend Part II
The sound of your music floats on the breeze over the top of the hill, I am giddy with anticipation. I run to you, embracing me we smile. Instantly Your intense warmth and light settles my worried...
View ArticleSecrets
A poem about the devastating effect of keeping secrets and how one in particular kept me in exile and isolation from myself and the world for too many years. It tainted every part of my being but I am...
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