How to succeed at failing

What failure teaches us

This memoir traces the threads of life through missteps, losses, and temporary salvations and resurrections. Each failure becomes a doorway to deeper understanding of self and others, asking what it means to remember truly, forgive fully and understand ourselves, and live with the paradox of unresolved stories.

The Story
Fragments and thoughts

Stories

About

After a lifetime of writing Prose, Poetry and Music to facilitate healing, I thought others might gain some solace through reading my thoughts. The entries here may form into a book one day as promised to a dedicated bunch of Friday evening travellers {a.k.a known as Friday night drinks!} These are accompanied by random writings that help me to explore and work with the inner workings of the spiritual self as I understand it.

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A worn hardcover journal with a deep indigo cloth cover, its spine slightly frayed, lies open on an old wooden desk scarred with faint scratches and ink stains. A single dried ginkgo leaf is pressed between pages filled with dense, looping handwriting and a few crossed-out lines. Late afternoon light filters through an unseen window, casting long, soft shadows and illuminating dust motes suspended in the air. The composition is shot at an eye-level angle with a shallow depth of field, the foreground text in sharp focus and the background softly blurred. The mood is contemplative and bittersweet, in a quiet, photographic realism style that feels intimate, sophisticated, and gently nostalgic.

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Thoughts on failure, memory, and hope, sometimes arriving late.