Flight Feels
It’s that bittersweet appreciation I’m trying to get at. Being aware that the way your life is, isn’t the way it’s always going to be.
“Stay out of it”
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, everyone has their own shadings of right and wrong.. but the information that those shadings are built on needs to be accurate. “Staying out of it” and leaving politics to the politicians, assumes accuracy without questioning it. And right now, things need to be questioned more than ever.
Becoming an Addict
January isn’t many people’s favourite month. The coziness of Christmas is over, but (for sportspeople anyway) the anticipation of a new season starting is still a little bit too far away. And trying to spend any time outside is a mental battle on par with saying no to chocolate when …
Different levels, different devils
Marginal gains. Or the big picture?Baby steps. Or a running jump?Microscopic analysis. Or let it happen? I could finish this post right here and I think I’d have made my point. At least in my head anyway… because it’s all the same question really, objectively, but it’s one I can …
Plan as if your life depends on it, but don’t let your life depend on it…
Sound like a paradox? It is. Because golf, in itself, is one massive paradox. So is life really. Ultimately golf is a game in which you can’t control the outcome, so we fall into that irresistible trap of trying to control everything we can to lessen the severity of the …
Role Reversals
Lots of people have a missing piece, whether they show it or not… and for all you know you could be lighting up that little piece of darkness they don’t let anyone see.
Freeze Frames and Photographs
“Life isn’t a series of pictures and videos and memories for us to play back when we want to remember, it’s what actually happens to us”
Split Life Living
I’m writing this as I sit in Costa at Gatwick airport, looking out the window at darkening skies and bare trees that make me think I’m back home for Christmas again.In 24 hours time I’ll have finished a practice round in Portugal for the inaugural Patsy Hankins Trophy, a matchplay …