Tag : quotes

• • 04/04/2016

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    drawing the lines

    Personal

    How do you decide what you share online -and what do you hold back? It's something that regularly comes up often during mentoring conversations - our sessions invariably slipping a little into [...]

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  • 03/02/2016

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    quotes for my daughter: the fence

    Parenting

    A Tim Minchin song might not seem like an obvious place to find wisdom, but I'm a huge admirer of his clever wordplay & humorously accurate observations on life. The Fence is chock-full of [...]

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  • 01/03/2016

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    quotes for my daughter: Ani Difranco

    Personal & Living

    Alternative title for this post: everything I know about life I learned from Ani Difranco.   If you're not getting happier as you get older then you're fucking up. If you don't like [...]

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  • 12/02/2015

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    notes for my daughter: on jealousy

    Personal

    Ok, it's not snappy - but it's surprisingly true. There will be times when someone is inexplicably rude or mean or condescending, and you cannot figure out why. A girl at school who consistently [...]

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  • 10/08/2015

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    notes for my daughter: weak & strong

    Parenting

    Dear Orla, I have been strong and I have been weak, and I have learnt that these words do not mean what we think. Before you were born, I cried easily; a confrontation with friends, a passing [...]

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  • 08/09/2015

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    notes for my daughter – Songbirds

    Parenting

    You were born with a mind like a faiytale forest, filled with every imaginable species, and some even beyond that. A rainbow of feathers, a cacophony of song. & every day as you grow, we lose [...]

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