Margaret Leigh

It was past 4 p.m. now, the time of a winter afternoon when Hampstead had a light of its own, silver and mauve; the colour of bags under the eyes of someone you loved and made tired. It came up from the ponds and hung about Downshire Hill and Flask Walk making the beautiful homes more cruelly beautiful.

I don’t even know what impelled me to buy it—pure chance. I’ve never thought of keeping a diary, partly because a diary has to be secret, and so it would have to be hidden from Michele and the children. I don’t like hiding things; besides, there’s so little space in our house it would be impossible to manage.

Channelling my energy into school work, I carried my grief around like a grenade. The fury went inwards and eventually subsided. It takes perhaps ten years for grief to lose its raw edge.

She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment. He was made of excellent human dough, and had the rare merit of knowing that his talents, even if let loose, would not set the smallest stream in the country on fire: hence he liked the prospect of a wife to whom he could say, ‘What shall we do?’ about thi

Grab your journal and make a list of the things your friends do that give you the feeling of being valued and connected. Then list the things that you do to demonstrate your commitment to your friends. Are there things you can do more of? Have you ever asked a friend what actions they appreciate the most as a demonstration of caring and dedication?

My own notes, now that I hurriedly consulted them, were about how landscape can usefully draw the eye away from some other aspect of the narrative in order to return to it later. How these changes of focus can either be subtly incorporated or dropped in without ceremony. Narrative should not all be on one plane, I said, the picture needs different

We might think of conscious racial awareness as the tip of an iceberg, the superficial aspects of our racial socialization: our intentions (always good!) and what we are supposed to acknowledge seeing (nothing!). Meanwhile, under the surface is the massive depth of racist socialization: messages, beliefs, images, associations, internalized superior

Mr Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests exce

What are the benefits of reflective practice?

• Consolidate new learning into our practice.

• Innovation and vitality through - opening our mindsets to multiple

perspectives.

• Increase our capacity abilities through feedback and clarification.

• Partnership – reflecting with a ‘support team’.

• Tests out ideas, working with questions, for example:

o “Wha