Category Archives: Life

Anything goes…

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I was born in… well, we can gloss over that. Let’s just say that my childhood was spent in an era of extremes. War and calls for peace dominated the headlines, crooners shared the charts with pop groups, hemlines varied … Continue reading →

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The Right to be Wrong

Posted on June 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The headline annoyed me. I barely needed to read the story. In a few words, it not only managed to criticise, but to ridicule the speaker… who had voiced a personal opinion… thus passing judgement for the reader, without allowing … Continue reading →

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Sensory Deprivation?

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I was no more than five years old. We were staying with one of my great-grandmothers for a while. She was an old lady by that point, with a sharp mind and a wicked sense of fun. She was also … Continue reading →

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Do you care? #CarersWeek

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I wandered through into the kitchen, snuggled in my dressing gown, to boil my own kettle for my second coffee of the day… an unaccustomed luxury. I am usually at work by that time, dragged reluctantly from sleep by the … Continue reading →

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An iceberg universe

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Fat little fingers hold up the toy as she peers at her reflection, laughing at herself. That she is, at two years old, very self-aware is evident in the way she plays with her own and her family’s reflections in … Continue reading →

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Eyes to see

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Sue Vincent

“By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I remember one hot, summer’s day as a child, laying in the long, tickly grass … Continue reading →

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Mannequins and memories

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I opened the tool drawer and pulled out the hammer. The dog took one look and did a runner, hiding under the desk with a mixture of laughter and wariness in her eyes. This, I thought, was rather unfair… I … Continue reading →

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Not the best of days…

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It was not a good day. It had started in the early hours with a nightmare that woke me screaming. Given the general atmosphere of fear, anger and frustration that seems to be being reinforced at all turns and with … Continue reading →

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…A Month of Sundays: Survive.

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The Lady with the Lamp * … After first studying medicine with the Sisters of Charity, Florence Nightingale later underwent formal training as a nurse both in London and Edinburgh and then became superintendant of a hospital in Harvey street, … Continue reading →

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…A Month of Sundays: Lady’s Lamp.

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 * … Florence Nightingale’s spiritual life was graced by contact with the last of the Esoteric Medical Orders. The Sisters of Charity, was a religious order founded by St Vincent de Paul in 1634. Such orders had … Continue reading →

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