The sky is pink, the trees look warm and brown
The heat has come to London for a stay
The kitchen feels so humid, I might drown
The sky is pink, the trees look warm and brown
Unusual shades on this side of the town
But lovely pink for a kind wedding gown
If you have a credit card to pay
The sky is pink, the trees look darker brown
The heat has come to London in late May

May 12, 2017| Nina Rios | General

Tuesday 30th May -Time to Take Action

 

What is bedwetting?

Bedwetting can affect anyone although it is most common in children over the age of 5 years. There are a number of causes including the over-production of urine at night, a problem with the  bladder being able to store the urine and the inability of the child to wake up in response to full bladder signals. However, there could be other causes including an undetected problem with constipation or the bladder.

Bedwetting can also have a serious effect on a child psychologically, affecting the self-esteem, emotional well being and day time functioning. For all these reasons it is important that bedwetting is taken seriously and all affected children undergo a comprehensive assessment and are offered treatment.

It is a common childhood condition, with approximately 20% of 5 year olds and 5-10% of 7 years olds regularly wetting the bed; if this problem is not treated it can stay with them until the teenage years and adulthood.

What is World Bedwetting Day?

Bedwetting is defined as a common medical condition and World Bedwetting Day aims to raise awareness of the issue. Bedwetting is no-one fault, and the families and doctors of those who suffer should be able to openly talk about this issue. This day raises awareness of bedwetting as a common condition that can and should be treated. The slogan for World Bedwetting Day is ‘Time to Take Action’. This is to recognise that much more can be done to diagnose and treat children and teenagers with this common medical condition. World Bedwetting Day is a partnership between the team here at Bladder and Bowel UK, ERIC and Ferring.

 

When is World Bedwetting Day?

This year’s day is taking place on Tuesday, 30 May 2017

The energy that saves us from decay
Keeps the red  blood moving  in its dance
This is mystery, in its own deep way

In our body, many microbes play
Glory, glory, glory, happenstance
The energy that saves us from decay

The good and bad like dancers seem to sway
Giving health and illness a fair chance
This is mystery, in its own right way

Shall we opt for life and kneel to pray
To the one whose vital energy’is the source?
The energy that saves us from decay.

 

So movement  keeps us living every day
See the symbols and the random ways of chance
This is mystery  in its own way

See the lions and snakes as a romance
You might’ve understood that feeling once
The energy that saves us from decay
Is a mystery, in its own deep way

The War that did not end in ’45
Continued its trajectory of grief
Victorious, the people who survived
The War that did not end in ’45
On our backs ,the consequences ride
We will ignore the eyes of those who die.
While the gods of death  float through our minds  like leaves
The War that did not end in ’45
Continues its maintenance of grief

Paralysed by feelings strange and lonesome
Gazing blankly at the sun upon the trees.
Where is it that he can’t come home from
Paralysed by unnumbered feelings lonesome?
Has he entered into that  new Kingdom
Accelerated by a random bomb
Paralysed by feelings strange and lonesome
Gazing into that abyss beyond

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/how-to-beat-writers-block

 

“For anyone familiar with Greene’s prolific output, it’s hard to believe that he could ever suffer from writer’s block. But, in his fifties, that’s precisely what happened—he faced a creative “blockage,” as he called it, that prevented him from seeing the development of a story or even, at times, its start. The dream journal proved to be his savior. Dream journaling was a very special type of writing, Greene believed. No one but you sees your dreams. No one can sue you for libel for writing them down. No one can fact-check you or object to a fanciful turn of events. In the foreword to “A World of My Own,” a selection of dream-journal entries that Greene selected, Yvonne Cloetta, Greene’s mistress of many years, quotes Greene telling a friend, “If one can remember an entire dream, the result is a sense of entertainment sufficiently marked to give one the illusion of being catapulted into a different world . . . . One finds oneself remote from one’s conscious preoccupations.” In that freedom from conscious anxiety, Greene found the freedom to do what he otherwise couldn’t: write.”

http://www.writersdigest.com/writing-articles/by-writing-goal/beat-writers-block/write-is-a-verb-excerpt

 

• What are you passionate about?
• What do you care about so deeply or get so excited about that you talk about it to anyone who will listen?
• Do you love the process of writing itself?
• Who has encouraged your writing?
• Who would be proved wrong if you wrote and succeeded with your writing?
• Who has criticized, cursed, or discouraged you to the extent that it makes you want to prove them wrong?
• What upsets you so much that you are compelled to write about it or include the theme in your book?
• When have you (or someone you cared about) been disrespected in a way that makes you want to write?
• Where have you been lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time in regard to your writing?
• What could you do to increase the odds of being lucky in respect to finding inspiration?
• What are you afraid to write but know about