From ‘Not Good Enough’ to Spellbinding, by retired audio engineer Colin MacPhail
I was 11 years old. I’d been learning to play the bagpipe chanter and whilst on holiday in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, I entered a talent competition in a kids show at the Winter Gardens Theatre. I got up onstage, chanter in hand, and sat down to play something I knew well; Scotland [...]
The day I stopped running by Emma White, creative agency COO
Burnout. We hear the word all the time—thrown around on social media like a badge of honour. Accompanied, of course, by the endless advice on how to prevent it. Sleep more. Exercise more, but not too much. Don’t work too hard. Don’t love too hard. Meditate. Heal your inner child. Fix your attachment style. Chase [...]
Jumping with joy, by bungee jump manager Ty De Kort
I was born and raised with my older sister on the Caribbean island of Aruba — a Dutch Overseas Country and Territory. I have happy memories of playing in the ocean as a child, surrounded by a big family of fishermen, and I loved going out to sea with them. However, my parents were quite [...]




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