Writing Archive
Explore a curated collection of my writing, including psychotherapy insights, short stories, letters, and poetry, all compiled for easy access and reflection.
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rambles
letting thoughts come flaneurs & posers thinking wondering what you might make of this your tired legs refusing to work too many people to pull apart that cruelty i refused to let graft onto…
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Change principles
Unconscious Incompetence is where you don’t know you’re not doing ‘something’ well. Conscious Incompetence is where you’ve discovered you are not doing something well but you now know that you are doing it. Conscious…
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finding bottom
first to arrive last to leave those party rules learned so long ago if you don’t get enough that’s on you i tell myself i’m turning up for work doing the job taking home…
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raised hard
or so they told hard times hard lives no money for nothin’ got said enough times to make it sound real where i found the truth between the lines is their having family cousins…
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come through
took myself off have those feelings happen from time to time came back into the fray the fold the theatre of war you’ve come through? she’s asking like she cares has expectations of a…
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ephemera
couple of years because sometimes a man needs time to do the right things i gave you everything back your photographs your music & songs had them hanging around as reminders of things loved…
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shopkeeper
every time & i mean every time i go in say hello buy the wine box bottle of brandy she fails to match the mood a bright hello gets issit now? an even good…