Stephanie Butland

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Tag: Musings

Back (atchoo)

So, Kurdistan again was amazing again, and I worked hard and Alan came to stay for a weekend and my friendships there deepened and I was so caught up in being there that I didn’t take any photographs! So you will have to take my word for it. I’m going back on Friday for a [...]

Intermittent and random

1. I haven’t forgotten you. The interwebs of Erbil are temperamental at best, and can go off and sulk for three days if you so much as ask them to upload a photo.
2. I had a fabulous fortnight. Kurdistan lived up to all I remembered and loved about it last time, and more.  (I could [...]

On health and happiness

I saw a quote somewhere this week: Ralph Waldo Emerson (or Albert Schweitzer, or Ingrid Bergman, or Audrey Hepburn, depending on where you look) on happiness:
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
This struck a chord with me because I’ve been thinking a lot about my dance with cancer of late.
Two things [...]