gratitude

2021 Grateful 20: The price of wood and sparkling wine

I enjoy a good wallow. I’m prone to bouts of melancholy. For me, paranoia is the vanguard of depression. Some days it’s difficult to get

The fear of mindlessness

The conversations I’ve had today have taken me down all sorts of rabbit holes in search of a truth.

2020 Grateful 24: Storm damage

We had a doozy of a storm here the other night. It hit Zala county hard with reports of evacuations in some villages, major flooding

2020 Grateful 25: Ain’t life a peach?

Himself, at the door of my office with a look of consternation on his face. Me, engrossed in editing a piece of text on a

2020 Grateful 26: Counting Sheep

I started writing the Grateful series back in 2012. With so many years of practice, you’d think being grateful would come naturally to me by

2020 Grateful 43: Grateful – the film

I’m back in my happy place. Since I got up this morning, I’ve only spoken to two people. One was himself. The second was a

2019 Grateful 5: An eye-opener

I’ve been writing this weekly grateful series for eight years. I’ve been practising my daily grateful litanies for longer still. And even with all that

2019 Gratefuls 17 & 16: The science behind being grateful

A good mate, and former boss, characterises himself as a dirt man. When we worked together, we’d have long conversations comparing his need for facts

2019 Grateful 43

I’ve been feeling a different sort of gratitude these days. Not gratitude for stuff that has happened – although there’s plenty of that in me

2017 Grateful 48

Another week over with me sitting here on a Monday evening wondering where it all went to. It’s the end of January already. And it’s