The tough thing about blogging is that every post has to be as good or better than the last. Just as in tightrope walking where every step has to be sure, so does every post. True in most, well, all really, artistic endeavours – only as good as your last film, last novel, last symphony etc. […]
Not so many symptoms that you go into a panic attack wondering if your body is about to explode; not so few symptoms that you get anxious wondering if some previously unknown syndrome, about to be named after you, is shielding the symptoms until they can leap out at a stage too late for treatment.
I must not worry about world political events I have no control over and can have no effect on. I must not worry about world political events I have no control over and can have no effect on. I must not worry about world political events I have no control over and can have no
For people whose bodies are allergic to, say, gluten or peanuts, just a trace of the material in their food, perhaps derived from a mixing bowl or a beater or a knife, is enough to trigger a bad immune reaction. Similarly for anxiety sufferers a small event, a word, an image, perhaps part of an
I used to reconstruct fossil bones. Fragmented by the pressure of soil over thousands of years, perhaps trodden on by a wandering beast, broken by the changes in moisture and temperature. I would strengthen the fragments with a soluble glue, then look for edges that matched, colours that were the same, textures that were similar,
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I once asked a farmer friend if he was concerned about the long-lasting drought of the time. He wasn\’t, he said, because every day the drought went on was another day closer to the drought ending. Real glass half-full stuff. For normal people, every negative cancer test since their last treatment for cancer is a
On catastrophic fire danger days, like today, and tomorrow, I spend my days in suspended animation, my major activity consisting of checking the \”Fires Near Me\” app created by the Rural Fire Service of NSW ….. every half an hour. Occurs to me that the app could be improved by the recorded comforting voice of
Catch-22 was the greatest catch of all. You could escape the war any time you wanted to, all you had to do was tell your commanding officer you were crazy and wanted to go home and you would be sent home. Except for one tiny problem – wanting to be sent home was the only
Have only recently come to understand the difference between being anxious and suffering from anxiety. Being anxious is being rationally worried about something for a fixed period of time. On a day of high temperatures and strong winds I am anxious about bush fires. When the weather changes to a cool wet day I stop
