Here's a thought - let's say that I am a highly creative person (I would say I am but I don't like blowing my own trumpet) and my creativity is like a hunger that is there waiting to be fed. If this is the case, then the cravings for words must make me hungry all the time, almost like having two stomachs. (Okay I think I just liken myself to a cow!)
Then the lack of writing can explain why I have put on weight as I am trying to feed my creativity with food, not words! So maybe to help myself loose weight, I need to write more, i.e. writing keeps the hands from eating chocolates, crisps and all those items which are great to eat but not great for the hips.
I know this is a different take on diets but you have to give me credit for my originality in diet techniques!
Talking about hunger always makes me think of the following quote from the Nigerian author Ben Okri, taken from his book The Famished Road:
In the beginning there was a river. The river become a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river, it was always hungry.
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Spring Cleaning
With everything poised in the bedroom to start the wardrobe spring clean, I am safety sitting in a coffee shop feeling wonderful. You're probably thinking that I am procrastinating but I have already started. I have got rid of my hair!!
Well not all of it, but gone are the long straights locks that carried in the wind like leaves longing to be free from their branches. Like most things, I am not a normal girl when it comes to hair cuts. I don't have them regularly - it normally depends on the finances that are available. As, even though I am not a regular customer, I am brand loyal to Paterson SA in Edinburgh, who I have been going to for the last 15 years and I have never left disappointed. I do believe in getting the best with hair cut and something I think that is down to a stubborness in me who remembers watching her mum lose her hair because of chemotheraphy and how difficult it was to watch. It is also the reason why I would never shave my hair for charity.
So you see even though I don't go often, hair cuts for me means something more than just losing hair, it normally also means there is change a foot inside of me. It is a sign that I am ready to shake up the world that I live in and make a move in a slightly different direction.
Having written this down and finished my coffee, I feel that I ready to continue with Spring Clean Saturday!
Well not all of it, but gone are the long straights locks that carried in the wind like leaves longing to be free from their branches. Like most things, I am not a normal girl when it comes to hair cuts. I don't have them regularly - it normally depends on the finances that are available. As, even though I am not a regular customer, I am brand loyal to Paterson SA in Edinburgh, who I have been going to for the last 15 years and I have never left disappointed. I do believe in getting the best with hair cut and something I think that is down to a stubborness in me who remembers watching her mum lose her hair because of chemotheraphy and how difficult it was to watch. It is also the reason why I would never shave my hair for charity.
So you see even though I don't go often, hair cuts for me means something more than just losing hair, it normally also means there is change a foot inside of me. It is a sign that I am ready to shake up the world that I live in and make a move in a slightly different direction.
Having written this down and finished my coffee, I feel that I ready to continue with Spring Clean Saturday!
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