​SHORT-TERM MEMORY

We awaken each day.
We forget to say thanks.
We settle to sleep.
We forget to say thanks.

We eat our food.
We forget to say thanks.
We wear our clothes.
We forget to say thanks.

We have our home.
We forget to say thanks.
We have our world
We forget to say thanks.

We walk and talk.
We forget to say thanks.
We laugh and cry.
We forget to say thanks.

We have our family.
We forget to say thanks.
We have our friends.
We forget to say thanks.

We have our work.
We forget to say thanks.
We have our rest.
We forget to say thanks.

We have time to be busy.
We forget to say thanks.
We have time to rest.
We forget to say thanks.

We can think and dream.
We forget to say thanks.
We can plan and prepare.
We forget to say thanks.

We can be happy or sad.
We forget to say thanks.
We can be ourselves.
We forget to say thanks.

We were born and given life.
We forget to say thanks.
We have wonderful memories.
We forget to say thanks.

Everything has been given to us.
We stop and give thanks.
For all that we are.
We stop and give thanks.
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HOLIDAY
 
My mind is busy running over
all of the current activities.
It’s as if I’m living in them
rather than just completing them
and moving on.
 
I seem to want to hold
it all in my head and
replay the elements over and over again.
Where I did well
or where I messed up.
 
I shift down a gear
 and leave all the daily activity to one side.
Travelling slower, I can plan and organise.
There is more space for thinking here.
It is quieter.
 
And then I go even slower
and bring the car to a halt.
Leaving all thinking behind.
Sitting quietly by the shore
and looking out to sea.

​WEATHER FORECAST

I look at the early morning sky.
It is a blank canvas.

By lunchtime, I will have filled in
half of this picture.

By tonight, it will all be complete.
And what will this picture be?

Whether or not it will be the picture I planned,
waits to be seen.

​RAT RACE

We have inherited a world
where jobs and work
are allocated to people.
 
Employers decide on the tasks
that need to be done and
carve up the activity.
 
It’s an out-dated economic model
where we are paid to do what we are told.
And where many people have no jobs.
 
With technology we can now
create work in different ways,
driven by what really matters.
 
We can link up with others
and collaborate on projects
that are important to us as individuals.
 
We can take responsibility
for creating and shaping all of our
futures and a better world.
 
We can share resources
rather than waiting, like rats,
for the food pellet to arrive.

​CALL TO PRAYER
 
The church clock in our little village
chimes at 3 o’clock as I cut the grass.
It’s my call to prayer
and I pause for a moment.
 
At 4 o’clock we repeat the process.
It seems like a fitting end point,
working to God’s time.
Time for thanks and a cold beer.

​SHARING ECONOMY
 
I sit on Platform 2
in the shade, on a sunny August day
with a cup of tea and
some 'oats and honey' crunchy biscuits.
Three pigeons keep me company
and make sure that we leave nothing behind.

​ON-LINE JOB APPLICATION

What is your current job?
Please don’t use your job title.
 
Who do you work for?
Please don’t put your business name
or your boss’s name here.
 
What do you work for?
Please go beyond money.
 
What do you actually do?
Please go beyond your job description.
 
What does your ideal job look like?
Please say what you’d really like to do.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   Put all five answers  together..
2. Send this to yourself and ask 'what does it say to you?'

REINCARNATION

No one ever dies.
No kindness is ever wasted.
No one is ever lost.
For everything just changes
into love.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   How are you growing gently into love?
2. Looking back,  what have been the key phases  or times in your life (so far) where you have seen or felt the impact of love.?