life & work Archives - Mac Logan

How to find peace without really looking (video)

24th August 201718th February 2019 Mac Logan 0 Comments #EastNeuk, #Kilconquhar, #library, #whisky, caress, CGLT, Einstein, find peace, go to a library, hecttic Life, life & work, mindful, mindfulness, peace, seeking truth, spirit, Spiritual, walks and vistas

There, free from the noise and turmoil of modern life, stress oozed out of me as peace took its place.

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A Little Prejudice Goes a Long Way … Bloody foreigners? Says Who?

1st June 201718th February 2019 Mac Logan 0 Comments anti EU, death is coming, Eindhoven, EU, express train, Germany, Hannover, life & work, Netherlands, NHS, NHS for sale, remain, The Guardian, The Independent, Theresa May, theresa may donald trump nhs us trade deal brexit torture, train trip, video

Charging through a once ravaged landscape, I can’t help but wonder: Is this as good as gets?

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Christmas greetings – elves relax … and think of Govan

25th December 201618th February 2019 Mac Logan 0 Comments 2017, cartoon, Christmas, Diet, Dirty Harry, elf, elves, faith, fun, Govan, Jurassic, life & work, make my day, Moose, nationality, race, Robocop, Santa, Scots, sexual orientation, Spider Man, Turkey Plucker

This cartoon provides definitive if not completely reliable answers.

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A spot of footie, play hide-and-go-tag

29th November 2016 Mac Logan 1 Comment #Fife, #Scotland, Chunk, day-glo, Elie, express, family-food-bake-cook, football, footie, fun humour happiness, granddad, hideand seek, humour, Hunk, jet propelled, life & work, olympic, pirate, play, Shell Bay, sprint, uplifting, Usain Bolt, zipwire

It isn’t hard to spot day-glo orange boots, even in a row of bushes. The hard part is making the post first or tagging the runner.

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A Touch Across Time – love doesn’t die

28th November 2016 Mac Logan 4 Comments #Scotland, 1920s, after death, ageing, Corrie, Dad, family-food-bake-cook, Isle of Arran, life & work, life and growth, loss, love, Mac Logan, passing, peace, peaceful, spirit, Spiritual, spooky

My Dad died some years back. I reconnected with him yesterday… a touch across time.

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Lazarus Bread – SourDough Revival

15th November 2016 Mac Logan 0 Comments #Brexit, #Scotland, Angels, Angels Share, baking, bread, East Neuk, fun, Lazarus, life & work, love, sour, sourdough, Ursula K Le Guin, write, writer

Here in the East Neuk room temperature is changing in a downwards direction so it needed a day to rev-up. That means it ought to come back to life … today.

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A Year On – Oh Happy Day

14th November 2016 Mac Logan 0 Comments #Fife, #Scotland, autumn, craic, East Neuk, life & work, oh happy day, sunrise, winter sunrise

The roof held, the old hut didn’t blow down and we had another grandchild in April.

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In the Crosshairs: a World of Hurt … and Learning

6th November 2016 Mac Logan 0 Comments ambition, Angels Cut, awareness, behaviour, betray, betrayal, bullying, burn out, Dark Art, depression, Devil's Due, forgive, forgiveness, harms way, heal, healing, ingrate, Learning, life & work, Mac Logan, malice, narcissism, poem, poetry, recovery, self-development, self-improvement, selfhealing, spirit, spite, The Angels' Share Series, write, writer

Meaning well, yet stumbling blind against an abrading wall of ambition

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The Sky and I

21st October 2016 Mac Logan 0 Comments consciousness, infinite, intense experience, K D Lang, landscape, life & work, meditation, mindful, mindfulness, panorama, perception, picture, poetic, poetry, synapses, timeless

A single glimpse and the world ceased for a wee chunk of time—no slow motion—straight to stasis

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Old and lonely, and that’s not all

18th June 2015 Mac Logan 0 Comments Age Scotland, ageing, bus ride, company, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, family-food-bake-cook, growing old, life & work, loneliness, obesity, poor health, Rosyth, Sikh, slow death

I went forward to help. She looked at me, shook her head, scrabbled up the last step …

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Bread – Sourdough a go-go (revised)

Sourdough a go-go? Easy Imagine a calm Scottish seascape, Grasshopper, and lose your anxiety, it’s sour dough, a go-go, time … This is a quick guide for my pal Bob to help him make a sourdough loaf using a proven method. the aim This approach is designed to save time. Key pointers and stages are covered in the headings […]