How do you perceive the present moment? You can sometimes see in the present moment both the fading of the world that came before and the new life that will take its place emerging.
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Mental health: Night and day
An update on how I’m doing, a year into this mental health journey. There is always hope. You can turn it all around. Day can (and more than likely will) always follow night.
Beauty grows
Always move forward. Always engage with the reality and the beauty of life, the opportunities of change and growth that today and tomorrow offer us.
Joy & love & gratitude & kindness
Happy new year, gentle reader. Welcome to 2023. Welcome to today. How will you approach this new year? How will you approach this new day?
MJCarty.com: Top 5 posts of 2022
I present the five most-read posts of 2022 on MJCarty.com. If you have taken the time to read any words on this wee blog of mine this year, you have my heartfelt gratitude.
Frozen world
When everyday life grinds to a sudden halt, how do you respond to the frozen world? Your reaction to these rare moments of absolute peace can tell you so much about yourself.
Re-entry
Life is forever fresh, forever new. It might take a change of perspective to appreciate this. But life offers so many moments of re-entry, so many chances to start afresh.
Strange horizon
Every day of your life has the potential to be momentous in its own little way. Every day of your life marks the point at which the rest of your life begins.
Imagination can be trained
What is the best way to get your creativity firing on all cylinders?
The not-so-immaculate conception of Basil Fawlty
BASIL! When was Basil Fawlty created? The first episode of Fawlty Towers was broadcast 47 years ago this week. We can also pinpoint the day on which Basil was conceived, via Michael Palin’s The Python Years: Diaries 1968-1979.