Posts
It's that piece of ground in between. Where you stand back and view the clogged and winding path of which you've just emerged. With just enough room to swing your arms around, skirt flaring, a flower in your mouth.The weight has left your shoulder.
One hand holds the summer hat it was inappropriate to wear until now. Pink dust catches it's way up your legs and you like it.
The verge is where a flower is milliseconds away from bursting into form, or closed leaves gently carve joint heads above soil. It's the place where a wish is about to be granted. Even greater when its one you loved enough to give yourself. The skirt twirls some more.
It dazzles in the distance. In front there are leaves of orange, deep red and lime green scattered along a path. Your dream is right there, in this moment. You've battled self-doubt, fall outs, conversations, the schools, the colleges, the teachers. The doing without, the inspiration, the clarity, the making up, the Higher Self, the meditation, the manifestation. There's a contended sound of water that you know is translucent though you have yet to see it. The bird's song is to welcome you home.
I didn't know I would have a dance off in my head when this was done. I've had a great career, but I haven't ever achieved a thirty year old ambition. As a young child I wanted to be an astronaut, then an archaeologist, then a doctor. Then I met Enid Blyton -and still wanted to be those things, but now I wanted to write books. For a short while I ambitioned as a secretary (that lasted for about two weeks!) But there was always the books. Once I left home it was a psychologist, a writer or a College Lecturer. I became a College Lecturer.
And that's why the verge is such a delightful place- because am on it, about to fulfil an ambition I have held since way back when. It's not the short stories or the novels yet, but I have always been a commentator and an observer even while being a teacher. And even if I have left teaching as a nine to five, through this book not only am I teaching, but I also get to formalise what my students and other young people say about their lives and what works for them. It's my way of acknowledging and taking on board what they say. Because we do think they are valuable and worthy and lovely. My book is a way to show them that.
I self-published because I wanted it out there asap. It's been a year since the idea changed from being a packet of information cards to a book, and as such, Top Tips for Raising Today's Teens will be my first book- and clearly I am excited!!
There is more work to do of course: Get the front cover complete, structure the courses that are attached to the book and once I get a cover I like it will be about letting schools, parents and organisations aware of its imminent release.
But for now I am happy to stand in the verge, twirling my skirt and eating flowers!
One hand holds the summer hat it was inappropriate to wear until now. Pink dust catches it's way up your legs and you like it.
The verge is where a flower is milliseconds away from bursting into form, or closed leaves gently carve joint heads above soil. It's the place where a wish is about to be granted. Even greater when its one you loved enough to give yourself. The skirt twirls some more.
It dazzles in the distance. In front there are leaves of orange, deep red and lime green scattered along a path. Your dream is right there, in this moment. You've battled self-doubt, fall outs, conversations, the schools, the colleges, the teachers. The doing without, the inspiration, the clarity, the making up, the Higher Self, the meditation, the manifestation. There's a contended sound of water that you know is translucent though you have yet to see it. The bird's song is to welcome you home.
I didn't know I would have a dance off in my head when this was done. I've had a great career, but I haven't ever achieved a thirty year old ambition. As a young child I wanted to be an astronaut, then an archaeologist, then a doctor. Then I met Enid Blyton -and still wanted to be those things, but now I wanted to write books. For a short while I ambitioned as a secretary (that lasted for about two weeks!) But there was always the books. Once I left home it was a psychologist, a writer or a College Lecturer. I became a College Lecturer.
And that's why the verge is such a delightful place- because am on it, about to fulfil an ambition I have held since way back when. It's not the short stories or the novels yet, but I have always been a commentator and an observer even while being a teacher. And even if I have left teaching as a nine to five, through this book not only am I teaching, but I also get to formalise what my students and other young people say about their lives and what works for them. It's my way of acknowledging and taking on board what they say. Because we do think they are valuable and worthy and lovely. My book is a way to show them that.
I self-published because I wanted it out there asap. It's been a year since the idea changed from being a packet of information cards to a book, and as such, Top Tips for Raising Today's Teens will be my first book- and clearly I am excited!!
There is more work to do of course: Get the front cover complete, structure the courses that are attached to the book and once I get a cover I like it will be about letting schools, parents and organisations aware of its imminent release.
But for now I am happy to stand in the verge, twirling my skirt and eating flowers!
