A few weeks ago I went on a bad news fast. It’s possible that the world is no worse than it’s ever been – indeed, statistics show that in many ways it’s getting better and better – but our exposure to bad news is getting higher and higher. I was, to quote a friend, suffering from “outrage exhaustion”,… Continue reading Hope
Category: Language and Behaviour
How to break a communication impasse
OK, I admit it: despite my profession, I’m no paragon of perfect communication, particularly when emotions get in the way. So let me tell you about my lovely husband and me, being thoroughly human and flawed and a little bit pathetic. Through our seven years together, we’ve had the same communication issue crop up, causing… Continue reading How to break a communication impasse
If you can language it, you can have it
So Barbie has got in on the entrepreneur act and is telling us that if you can dream it, you can be it (except for, one presumes, the owner of a healthy, normally proportioned body). I’ll pay that, mildly, with a not-too-enthusiastic clap and a bit of a nod. No more, because the idea of dreaming as… Continue reading If you can language it, you can have it