T S Eliot's Marina
Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga? What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islandsWhat water lapping the bowAnd scent of pine and the woodthrush singing through… Read More »T S Eliot's Marina
Janet Lewison
I am a highly approachable Independent Expert Private English/English Literature Tutor located in Greater Manchester with over twenty years teaching and tutoring experience from Secondary to Postgraduate Degree level.
From Michael Neill: Affirmations!
I am enough. I am unstoppable. I am loved. I am what I am, and what I am has beauty and strength.
Speaking oneself into life! Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
‘Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? – You think wrong! – I have as much soul as you, – and… Read More »Speaking oneself into life! Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Huck Finn
I always wanted to be Huck Finn. He knew how to talk to people. He knew how to drift wide. He still does. There is this loosening out of my… Read More »Huck Finn
Reprised Mercy!
It had started to rain. Grey lonely rain that stirred up the earth below the garden and coated Mercy’s old boots. Each step muttered something about the past; promises, feuds,… Read More »Reprised Mercy!
Sniper Cat Reprised. By Edward Lewison-Hawksworth
A sniper. A cat. A death. The police were arguing what these seemingly unconnected clues meant: “It’s obvious” said One. “It’s a terrorist calling himself sniper cat!” “No I think…..” he… Read More »Sniper Cat Reprised. By Edward Lewison-Hawksworth
TS Eliot's 'A Song for Simeon.'
A Song for Simeon T. S. Eliot Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls andThe winter sun creeps by the snow hills; The stubborn season had made stand. My… Read More »TS Eliot's 'A Song for Simeon.'
Fleur Adcock meeting her mother on a train!
STRANGERS ON A TRAM I was on a tram going home form schoolwhen who should get on it but my mother,wearing the brown tweed costume Mrs Dowlepassed on to her before… Read More »Fleur Adcock meeting her mother on a train!
The Girl with a dragon Tattoo! REPRISE! Stig Larsson
Sometimes a day in bed with the aftermath of migraine can yield untold pleasure! This book had been recommended in the most positive terms and had sat by the side… Read More »The Girl with a dragon Tattoo! REPRISE! Stig Larsson
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Thought for the day: Paying attention. Real attention.
Tuition grants a student attention. Attention that can listen and encourage and challenge. Sometimes as a tutor the best breakthrough in terms of learning and confidence about learning, about being… Read More »Thought for the day: Paying attention. Real attention.
Christopher Dawson’s Shy boy in Salford: Part One.
I was aware of being shy and without confidence from a very early age. I think perhaps it was because I got too much attention as a child for being… Read More »Christopher Dawson’s Shy boy in Salford: Part One.
Thought for the Day by Moira Eribenne
Thought for the day Confidence from a tangent: Greetings from the near side of the moon…have you noticed how beautiful she is, how full, glowing, pearlescent:) So there you have… Read More »Thought for the Day by Moira Eribenne
Settlement.
Last week I walked my three lurchers into a good mood. Me rather than them. They tend to be rather more consistently sweet natured than me. And as I walked… Read More »Settlement.
T S Eliot's Journey fo the Magi ( From Areil) Brief Commentary.
T S Eliot’s poem is seasonally chilly and unseasonally doubtful about the conventional joyous journey of the three wise men. Like Robert Browning before him and Carol Ann Duffy after… Read More »T S Eliot's Journey fo the Magi ( From Areil) Brief Commentary.
TSEliot: The journey of the Magi
A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter.And… Read More »TSEliot: The journey of the Magi
Lighten your step and be your best you!
Playing with other voices. Modelling yourself on ‘excellent’ others, liberates the mind and body. A holiday from the weight of yourself!
Robert Louis Stevenson on Twitter with confidence4life!
I used to like cycling in cul-de-sacs. Then I discovered Treasure Island!!’ Janet Lewison @confidence4life
Come out from the shade and into the warmth of the sunshine!
…under her skin, deep down within her bones, there once lived a very small whimsy named hope www.confidence.for.life
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‘Helping you find new ways through the maze of underconfidence..’ Dr Janet Lewison
wB Yeats: He wishes for the cloths of heaven.
from “The Wind Among the Reeds“ Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the… Read More »wB Yeats: He wishes for the cloths of heaven.
Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things: ‘The Flints of Memory Lane’
Neil Gaiman dances on tired eyelids! Reading him is like opening your front door to find a shiny gold sovereign in the beak of a magpie wearing a pink velvet coat!… Read More »Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things: ‘The Flints of Memory Lane’
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol starring Scrooge and his peculiar brand of Confidence!
Tis the season of A Christmas Carol…all over the country in schools,church halls, theatres and community centres lurks the meanest, tightest, ‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous,old sinner’ … SCROOGE!… Read More »Dickens’ A Christmas Carol starring Scrooge and his peculiar brand of Confidence!
T S Eliot: from Rhapsody on a Windy Night
The memory throws up high and dry A crowd of twisted things; A twisted branch upon the beach 25 Eaten smooth, and polished As if the world gave up The… Read More »T S Eliot: from Rhapsody on a Windy Night
A Morning Miracle
Walking by the side of one of Rivington’s Lakes today and I was dazzled by the morning light upon the water. The dogs and I had to stop walking as… Read More »A Morning Miracle
Larking with Philip Larkin: Mr Bleaney’s Room
‘This was Mr Bleaney’s room. He stayed The whole time he was at the Bodies, till They moved him.’ Flowered curtains, thin and frayed, Fall to within five inches of… Read More »Larking with Philip Larkin: Mr Bleaney’s Room
Cath Corri: Glory Nights
Glory Nights. And when you walked out onto that stage of sight and sound did you remember me? Head high up in the clouds trying to make your way up… Read More »Cath Corri: Glory Nights
The big red button!
The big red button Mary’s had been a grey childhood. All shades of grey that was true, but still as grey as her favourite cat’s tail in November. Of… Read More »The big red button!
Dust two
George was waiting for his pen to write. Some days he could sit for long minutes, whilst everything began and got tangled up and then there would be this small… Read More »Dust two
Eleanor roosevelt: Be a Friend of your mind!
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.