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What I, Jane Thomas, resolves to do this year.
What I, Jane Thomas, resolves to do this year.
Jane Thomas here on the First Day of a brand New Year.
The past twelve months have been challenging to say the least. My step-brother Jamie was murdered, I ended up in a mental hospital and I’ve just finished my first term at the Time Police Academy. My step-father is the Academy’s Commander and Jamie had graduated joint top of his class with his best mate Dylan Roberts. So there’s not a lot of pressure on me to succeed!
Just six months ago the Academy was the last place on earth or beyond that I would have wanted to be, now it feels like home. True it is like a home where you are constantly under the microscope but I’ve also got a new best friend who’s almost like a sister. Skye Rain with her rainbow hair and such an infectious guffaw that you wouldn’t imagine would come out of five foot nothing girl.
One of my big lessons so far has been not to judge a book by its cover. In our first hand to hand combat class I would never have believed that five foot two Sergeant Diana Knott would leave six foot three Sergeant Loughlin Hall flat on his back, winded. And the class stud, Kyle Carey was a definite mistake, but so have most of my relationships been. Not that you can really call one night rendezvous a relationship.
My only real regrets since I started at the Academy is my relationship with Gabrielle Sanders but I have no idea what I could have done to offend her so badly. The least said about my relationship with my step-father the better.
So my resolutions for this year. Not anything to do with weight, Knott and Hall have got that pretty much covered with their circuits sessions.
1) Keep working hard in classes.
2) Try to get on better with Gabrielle.
3) Find out who killed Jamie.
Jane
(If you want to find out more about what happens you’ll have to hope that Kirsty Stanley gets Training Time: Book 1 of the Cop Across Time completed and edited)
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Skimming Stones into 2011
Dear all,
Life passes us by so quickly now that we barely have time to breathe, let alone stop and take notice.
Well January is a time for new resolutions and there’s one that’s sweeping Twitter and bloggers – it’s simple – lots of people are resolving to take more notice.
Fiona Robyn, a writer has set up ‘a river of stones‘ – a month long challenge starting 01.01.11 to take notice of something each day and to write a ‘small stone’ about it.
Fiona describes small stones as ‘a very short piece of writing that precisely captures a fully-engaged moment.’ Although you write down these stones, you can choose to keep them private and you don’t have to be a writer.
For some more ideas on how to ‘polish your stones’ – check out what Fiona has to say here.
I have shared this project with Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Students too because this is a prime example of a mindfulness technique. Mindfulness within occupational therapy is growing, especially within mental health. The theory is about connectedness with our world. It’s not just about being mindful in terms of taking time to meditate but being mindful in our daily occupations. Noticing the sensation of brushing our teeth, the feel of ingredients we are preparing, their smell, their taste. Really listening to someone, identifying their tone, noticing their expressions. Being aware.
I know that a lot of my writerly friends are going to engage in this journey of discovery – I hope that ‘non’ writers join us and discover themselves, their world and their inner poet.
How to join in
The simplest way is to jot down your stones in a notebook but if you would like to share them you can ‘sign up on the site‘ (I’ve added a widget to the right to share the river of stones – apologies this has been removed as it wasn’t working). You can set up a blog or on your exisiting blog use the tag aros against your stone posts. On twitter people are using the hashtag #aros. Or you can post to your Facebook status.
I will be posting here and on Twitter (which will post to Facebook). I have also made a Keynote presentation on my iPad that has a slide per page where I can post a picture and write my stone. This will then be zipped up in a pretty format to keep when January is over.
Now we haven’t officially started but I’ve just taken notice of something out of the corner of my eye so this one is just a bit of fun.
My eye catches a spider – lets it go as a speck – I really need to hoover!
Kirsty
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Winter Weather
Winter Weather
Loving this winter weather.
I have been writing messages in the snow:
Generally looking at the pretty stuff and I even went for a walk to the local shops (and I never do that).
Now of course there are some negatives such as driving in this weather (which I really don’t like to do) and it’s a bit cold!! But then there’s PJ days and snowball fights and the light that snow reflects when the sun shines on it.
Then there’s making Snow Monkeys and Snow Angels:
MERRY CHRISTMAS to my readers.
kirstyes 