Michelangelo is famously reported as saying that inside every block of stone or marble dwells a beautiful statue; one need only to remove the excess, the outer layer to reveal the work of art within.

It is with especial optimism that I flipped open my laptop this evening and settled back to compose this blogg during the short flight home to London from Stockholm.  It s Friday evening as Stockholm disappears beneath me as we reach cruising altitude. It had been an excellent business trip. Fourteen coaching sessions in 3 days was an arduous task but as I reflected on the sessions I felt God s pleasure. I had completed a tiring but fruitful six weeks of consultancy that had seen me shuttling from one departure lounge to another, the wear and tear periodically eased only by the hospitality afforded the frequent flyer courtesy of the BA executive lounge: Eindhoven, Philadelphia, Stockholm Copenhagen and back to Stockholm.  But now my leadership development assignment complete I was headed for home.  A month from now and we shall be heading back to Brazil but for now an autumnal London and a wife for all seasons await.

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Tracy s excellent blogg entitled Plato in which she reflected his quotation that, One can easily understand a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." put me in mind of something that Emily Dickinson  wrote:

I dwell in possibility

A fairer house than prose

More numerous of windows

Superior for doors

Of chambers as the Cedars-

Impregnable of Eye

And for an Everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky

Of  Visitors -the fairest

For Occupation This

The spreading wide my narrow hands

To gather paradise.

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A rainbow sits over the skies of Croydon tonight and as  I stand  in the street to look at at so others walikng along stop to notice it too. There is a sense of joy at this sight in the street.

Today is the day of atonement for Jews( some of the Children in my school are on an official day of observance)

What a perfect day for a rainbow

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Shame is possibly the greatest bondage man can ever live in. It is deceptive and it negates your true identity.It  sits on you as passivity stopping you allowing yourself to love yourself. Why?.... because it  makes you feel ashamed of your issues. We all have them; our flesh contains them and for many understandable reasons; shame wants to put you in denial..there is the bondage..

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