JDS Insights: January 2013

Yeah. January. Well. I think there’s only one post that can sum up that month…and that’s Live Shit Binge and Purge. So yeah – more death in January. Hah – that sounds like a good name for a band. January is always the whole looking back, looking forward thing. But sometimes life has a wayContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: January 2013”

JDS Insights: November 2012

This month there was death. And it was difficult to deal with. In the way that any death is. It was also Ten Years of  YLGS. That made me think a lot. How much things have moved on. It’s not about the person who starts it – it’s more about whether the idea keeps going.ContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: November 2012”

JDS Insights: December 2011

My December threw up a lot.* I hope you get something from reading this (rather long) post. —– December 3rd, very early in the morning, my Father-in-law passed away. I was there. It was something that was quick and slow at the same time. He’d been pretty ill for a number of years, including beingContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: December 2011”

Ageing, the Passage of Time and Mortality

“…but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.”Benjamin FranklinI don’t think/ feel/ see/ judge that thinking about death is morbid. I read/ heard/ saw somewhere that it’s our attitude to death that shapes our attitude to life. I’ve had three things happen to me recently that have broughtContinueContinue reading “Ageing, the Passage of Time and Mortality”