The weight of #caring - professionally/ personally/ globally - is significant. Lately I've been 'feeling' too much, my compassion for others has exhausted me. Today though, a #SpacesForListening session reminded me that I'm not alone & that boundaries come in all shapes & sizes.
"Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them." ~ D.H. Lawrence
Autumn on Krestovsky Island 🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1892)
"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? — an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love." ~ George Eliot, 'Daniel Deronda'
A Woodland near Leeds (1869) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
"The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." ~ Virginia Woolf
In light of the horrific attack that has occurred in Manchester, I wish to express, inadequate though it is, my solidarity with all my Jewish friends and followers.
Thoughts and prayers with all those directly affected.
There is no place for such evil on the streets of Britain.
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
