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Janey Colbourne

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Philosophy, Spirituality, Poetry

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Janey Colbourne is a performance poet, nonfiction writer and musician, a left-handed, green-blooded, outspoken cheeky feminist, a caffeinated perambulating dictionary, extruding linguistic linguini. She is a regular contributor to Earth Pathways Diary. Janey is active on the poetry open mic scene in the North West and has been a featured performer at various community and charity events including Manchester Histories Soapbox, We Shall Overcome, Truth To Power Cafe, and Wigan Diggers’ Festival 2019. Her performances have been described as powerful, beautiful, courageous, uplifting, fun, open, generous, and ‘on fire’. She is cavorting on the edge of cackling, with strong words but a soft heart, blazing a trail in bleeding ink with the gleeful ...more

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Long Covid Support Group in Hyndburn

I’ve previously posted about my experience of long covid, since getting ill with the virus back in March 2020. I still have long covid, and have been taking part in a long covid peer support programme pioneered by Brain Health Breakthrough. The programme is now expanding and I’m very pleased to have been asked to co-facilitate this new peer-led support group for people in Hyndburn with long covid,

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Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

by Johnjoe McFadden

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Hope In The Dark

by Rebecca Solnit

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The Craft of Poetry: Structure and Sound

by Harvey Stanbrough (Goodreads Author)

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Quotes by Janey Colbourne (?)

“The trouble with scary people is
everyone's too scared
to tell them how scary they are”
― Janey Colbourne

tags: bullies, bullying, intimidation, relating-with-others, relationships

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“Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.”
― Janey Colbourne

tags: creative-process, creativity, dreams, fantasy, imagination, inner-life, inner-world, inspiration, multiverse, vision, writing

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“Aim high fly
Reach deep roots
Stretch out grow
Beyond and below
Above and behind
All about and in
The awesomeness
Sings”
― Janey Colbourne, See with Heart: A collection of poems and photographs

tags: gratitude-happiness-inner-peace, inspirational, love-life-wisdom, personal-development, personal-growth, poetry-quotes

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“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

tags: education, homeschool

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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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tags: gratitude-happiness-inner-peace, inspirational, love-life-wisdom, personal-development, personal-growth, poetry-quotes

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“Gratitude makes the world a softer, kinder place. It softens that brittle shell of defence. There is always something to be grateful for, no matter how small or simple.”
― Janey Colbourne

tags: grateful-attitude, gratitude-quotes, inspirational-quotes, kindness, motivational-quotes

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