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Could kindness be the way?

November 27, 2012 – 6:00 am

Fiona Robyn, published novelist, psychotherapist, creativity coach and blogger at Writing Our Way Home extended an invitation to join her in a celebration of kindness. As a practiser of nonviolent communication and lover of all things kind, in and out of work, I enthusiastically agreed to join in. This is what arrived (Read More …)

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Peonies and the prospect of a 21 hour work week

June 12, 2012 – 4:57 pm

Make an introvert happy Peonies and the prospect of a 21 hour work week That’s what’s a pleasure for me at the moment, my introvert self is particularly keen on this prospect. The New Economics Foundation are proposing a 21 hour work week. Maybe working towards it over a decade They aim for (Read More …)

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The Pleasure Manifesto

December 1, 2011 – 11:42 pm

The Pleasure Manifesto hello my name is Pauline Esson and this is my question to the world well, let’s make that a bit more personal my question to you is your life a pleasure? that’s quite a question, let’s leave a minute for that and if it’s (Read More …)

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It’s a pleasure doing business with you!

November 26, 2011 – 12:06 am

It’s a pleasure doing business with you. I don’t know why, but that always has an Irish accent when I say it in my head and is followed by ‘and so it is’ and maybe also ‘to be sure’. I have a great and genuine affection for the Irish, I’m not taking the p**s. (Read More …)

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The Pleasure Report. Week 48. The warm and happy edition.

December 23, 2010 – 2:13 pm

Week 48 in a year of pleasure The Pleasure Seventy two points And a 72:0 pleasure to pain ratio A selection of the pleasure No pain corporate contact My ‘hollow speak’ radar is extremely sensitive. Meaningless jargon really jars And I weep at the system based encounters, that make up most service industry interactions now (Read More …)