A few strands of conversation and reflection came together recently and I realised that I have something to say.
I am really interested in what Aaron and I call “tools for life” – the sort of things you don’t necessarily get taught in school, but that hugely influence how you live your life – from prac things like using a budget and managing time, to more intangible things like how to forgive, what happiness is and how to build lasting friendships.
I have also learned a lot about myself and other people over the last 10+ years and I really value the healing I have experienced, the wisdom I have been given and the insights I am learning to apply in my everyday life.
I’m still learning, and one of the ways that I learn is to talk and to write. Sometimes I argue vehemently for a particular idea and in the middle of that argument someone drops a brilliant example into the conversation and something clicks in me – I realise my opinion needs to change. Other times my ideas develop slowly over time, through multiple conversations, through reading, through prayer, through my own processing and through experiences.
I enjoy drawing together strands from various disciplinary and experiential contexts and then trying to live them out. It is the particular chemistry of borrowed elements wrought through experience that I want to talk about here, on this blog.
So for now, I’m just going to share musings and thoughts as they come up in day-to-day life, and I’ll see where this takes me. I won’t post every day, because I know I can’t produce the quality of content that I would want to read on a daily basis. If I manage to write once or twice a week on top of the writing I’m doing for my PhD, I would be delighted.
I hope this will start a conversation in which other people feel willing to share their insights and experiences too. We have so much to learn and share with each other.
Here we go.
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