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Category: Empathy

People Are People

February 15, 2022 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

People are people, so said my sister with profound simplicity in a conversation we had over Christmas. The context of our conversation I cannot remember, nor can I remember specifically whom we were talking about, except that it was someone who had been demonised and demolished, someone who had made a mistake, had spoken without … Continue reading People Are People

Crying Over You

June 26, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 5 Comments

There ought to be aversion therapy for tears; a programme targeted at those people who squirm when faced with someone else’s crying. If controlled exposure to spiders for people with arachnophobia is a proven means of slowly dissolving their fear of eight legs, then surely the same should work for people who are mortified by … Continue reading Crying Over You

Doing What Doesn’t Come Naturally

October 10, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

I do not mean this in a cruel way, but there is nothing funnier that someone who does something badly. I’m not talking about executing something in a half-baked, not-very-good-but-might-be-if-they-practiced way, I mean full on shocking, how can you possibly be so bad at that? And it is really only funny if they know; when they are … Continue reading Doing What Doesn’t Come Naturally

While There Is Still Time

September 17, 2020May 24, 2022 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

I am in the Post Office sending parcels, there are two hatches but she says – go to go his, I am sorting something, and as he serves me she speaks sharply to him, saying that he has labelled these boxes incorrectly and has placed a bag where she is bound to trip over it, … Continue reading While There Is Still Time

Wolves

April 6, 2020May 24, 2022 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 5 Comments

The world has ground to a halt.  Except that the wheels of the world grind slowly, and 2020’s halt felt more like an emergency stop.  There we all were, spanking along, foot to the floor, probably on the wrong side of the speed limit, when a shadowy figure ran out unexpectedly.  There are no wolves … Continue reading Wolves

Clap Hands

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

The Big Clap – did you do it?  Wasn’t it great?  I nearly forgot, but I heard them getting going, and came out from the kitchen into the front room, opened my window two floors up and leaned out into the darkness to clap.  I find every standing ovation moving, but this one even more … Continue reading Clap Hands

Every Now and Then Life Says

March 22, 2020March 25, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

‘Every now and then life says, where do you think you’re going so fast?’ We’re apt to think it’s cruel but sometimes it’s a case of cruel to be kind.’  Those are a couple of lines from a Ron Sexsmith song called ‘Gold In Them Hills’.  He’s a Canadian singer songwriter with a voice that … Continue reading Every Now and Then Life Says

This Feeling Will Not Last

January 22, 2020March 11, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I have been lonely in the past, but I am not anymore.  I know I might well be lonely again in the future, and, when that happens, I’ll have to remind myself that the feeling will not last.  That’s one of the good things about getting older: we’ve seen it before.  Some call it, ‘wisdom’ … Continue reading This Feeling Will Not Last

Wondering

September 30, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 3 Comments

I was at a writing workshop on Saturday.  We had to shuffle on and button up the coat of a character we were writing about, inhabit them and get close, try to see life as they did, think and feel the way they would have.  For some writers the coat was made to measure, it … Continue reading Wondering

I Don’t Want Pity

September 14, 2019June 8, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 3 Comments

‘The thing I dread most, far more than the gossip – and God knows, I really don't like gossip – is the pity.  The thought of people feeling sorry for me is too much.  My worst nightmare is others holding a pity party on the coat tails of my misfortune.’ It had been a long time … Continue reading I Don’t Want Pity

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