Good Morning Friends! I hope you're well. We are on a 10-day streak of sunshine here in Glasgow, which I've never seen in 6 years of living here! People moan about it still being cold, but it is absolutely beautiful to absorb after a long, dark winter. Yes, it's true, there's sun in Scotland! I find myself growing branches from the idea of 'Living Fully'. We are heading into Spring I guess... I hope you enjoyed my piece about admiration last week, and I think the more I write and delve into...
11 days ago • 2 min read
Good Morning Friends, I trust you're well. As I write, the sky right now at 6:37am matches the colour in the SIP logo. I'm excited for the sun to begin rising sooner each day over the horizon of trees out the front of our house. It's a magical time of year that I always know I will look back on and remember fondly. As 2025 unfolds, I'm trusting the thoughts that surface through the precious writing time I have. 2025 seems to be the beginning of the musings of 'Living Fully' which has brought...
18 days ago • 2 min read
Good morning friends! I trust you're well and have had a week you can look back on and be proud of. I now spend most of my time off 'doing' so moments to pause become peaceful in a whole new way. Walks with the gang, cycling as a commute, writing or recording a podcast. They all used to be building blocks of my life, now I'd describe them as my form of 'being'. To have peace is to do nothing. But once nothing is boring, what else feels light to you that may bring you peace? I think it's...
25 days ago • 1 min read
Good morning friends, I write this sitting in the first of the Spring sunshine of the year. This may sound unusual to some of you but waking up with the sunshine beaming through the window feels like a new level of life after 6 months! Obviously, seasonality exists in all aspects of life but I feel like we rarely acknowledge the impact it can have on our happiness or contentment day to day. Mostly when we notice a stark change. When it's darker and colder, I'm definitely harsher with myself....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Good morning friends, This is by far the latest letter I've written so far. Yet, without feeling the need to show up, I feel the need to honour the ritual I have. I know I could now turn up every other week or month and deliver something thought-provoking, yet there is something sacred about writing each week that I selfishly don't want to lose a grasp of. What in your life is of a similar nature? I find these are often habits or rituals we lose hold of and then regret having not kept them...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Happy Wednesday Friends! I'm dropping in mid-week to share a piece a read at the weekend and I loved it so much that I wanted to share it with you all. Sam is a trusted online friend who writes wonderfully about life so you can be sure it will make you think about your own life in a meaningful manner. Here's the link to the piece on his substack - https://newsletter.samsager.com/p/defining-enough?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Enjoy! Lawrence
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Good morning friends, I hope you've had a nice week. Our weather has been, as us Scots would say, dreich. Sometimes, this can affect your mood but with the end of February in sight, I'm excited for Spring. Hopefully, some beautiful pictures of the change in seasons and light will appear in a letter for you soon. It goes without saying, if you have any wonderful photos of nature where you live and regularly walk, please send them to me without hesitation. As I delve deeper into the realms of...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Good Morning Friends, I write to you late in the day this week after one that's got away. That tends to happen at times. Times we want it to, and times we perhaps don't. But as ever, this time to write is sacred as is the time you're taking to read it. Remember to nurture your rituals. They are precious. The longer days are on the way I trust and hope you've had a week where there have been moments of life. The ones where you can pause and take it all in. The little pockets of aliveness that...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Good morning friends, I trust you are well as we sail into February. What are you pleased with from January? We spend so much time talking about our big New Year plans and not enough time seeing if they've improved our lives. I am finding it increasingly difficult, as a parent, to sit down and do all things Self-Improvement Project. Someone should write a book on how to maintain creativity as a parent. Obviously, priorities change for the greater good, but I miss sitting down and creating as...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read