Willow-isms are neologisms, new words or phrases I have made up.
Not the most inspiring quote. Don’t we prefer something completely optimistic? Do we want realism in our quotes? In quote world, one phrase is enough and all your problems disappear. Repeating it to yourself and to others can help to make it real. As drops of water slowly fill a jar, so little quote […]
Express Yourself There are many ways to express yourself in life. One is using words. You can write them out randomly or put them in some sort of order. You can be a hero, or you can be a fool. Take some pleasure that you have said all the same words as the best of […]
Youthful Humiliation For many years my mother and I were estranged. I prickled when she was brought up in conversations. We just didn’t get on. I wanted to move away from it all. To forget. Every time I tried to tell her something that I felt was wrong or I knew or made […]
It takes a special kind of someone to produce something simple that is also special. Huh? Don’t blame me blame Billy Joe Shaver. I remember a phrase in Zen Buddhism a phrase “putting legs on a snake.” Where smart people start using their brains and make the simplest of things harder and harder. Billy Joe […]
Breaking News As I’m nearing 50 it’s time to get a few things sorted. I’ve embarrassed myself enough. I’ve held my little finger and said “this little piggy went to market” one too many times. It’s humiliating. My wife keeps saying “the piggies are your toes” I just can seem to get it through to […]
Sometimes,you will be astounded to read, I get bored. As a middle aged puddle splasher boredom is actually quite difficult to achieve. So I split myself in two. Mentally. I’m not a complete fool. I’m a wholewit not a halfwit. As soon as I did it – I realised – out of the two of […]
My Granddad was a brush. My mother in Law was ketchup. I was always a chair. The more I analyse this, the more I realise that hardly anybody is a chew. Nor are they a tissue. Even though the act of doing it describes what you need at the same time. Onomatopeic A word that […]
Negative thoughts and self-hate will keep you company anywhere you go. Finding the silence within can seem like you are alone. But it is within that silence that you can find peace. A simple trick to a happier life, is to treat yourself as well as you treat others. Practice everyday. The more happiness you […]
I may have to start a petition to reduce Wednesdays to one per month. If I’m doing #onelinerwednesday – One Wednesday a week may be too many to keep up with. This post is a member of the 1%. 1% of it is not true. Happy worker. I was never a happy worker. I was […]
If you take a book into a forest.. Will the trees cry? Their friends have been pulped, and reformed into this monstrosity ,which I hold in my hand. A vessel for trite human emotion. Gratuitously I read poetry for the fallen, walking among them. A pulped heart, a forlorn life, vandalized with human desire. That […]
