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This is the first Christmas that my father is not completely with us and the first month really that I am embracing the fact that he is on his own path and that I have my own. Next Christmas, my Ph.D will be submitted and who knows if he will still be with us. This piece functions as a cathartic relief as I go through what happens this year whilst being in my 3rd year of Ph.D. I hope it will Help anyone going through pre-bereavement. It gets better eventually. Last Christmas, my father is at home, he is not well, yet still vivacious and talkative. His full diagnostic is unknown. He has a depression, some hallucinations at times and can be aggressive if too tired. I spend most of the time with him. We walk in green fields, talk about the wonder of the world, laughs about silly things and discuss life and death. I even take notes of what his funeral could be like.  January comes, I am back in the UK. Two days after I left, he is at the hospital, I crash. My mum asks me to focus

Tushara Canekeratne, fellow at Stanford University, CEO at Nadastra Inc. and Co-Founder Virtusa Corporation had a full day of tours and meetings in order to learn more about current work taking place at Loughborough University. One of her last stop of the day was in The Studio. To welcome her, Meg and 10 entrepreneurs eager to learn from her life experience. The following piece tells what happens and some of the lessons taken from the interaction. As she came into the room, we felt a rise in energy. She was ready to interact, meet with people and engage with them - eyes wide-opened, curious and interested, a ravishing smile. We could only be fond of her from the get go. She introduced herself. She is an entrepreneur, a mentor, a passionate philanthropist and investor in young people's education, empowerment and leadership development. She is also a mother, a wife, a family member and she cares deeply for the needs of her inner circle. We are impressed by her achievements as much

R. have sewn some a number of times. She uses them to grow crops. She also sells them so that people can grow food even in small spaces. It is a cool upcycling of coffee sacks. Recently, R. started collaborating with Muto a community organisation that supports vulnerable individuals in Leicestershire. I love them because they grow people who almost stop believing that they will keep flourishing. I wrote a blogpost to let the world know more about the collaboration. Have a read :  Collaborating with Muto and vulnerable members of the community to sew coffee sacks for food growing - one way to grow confidence

And I have no idea what to do no more. You call plumbers they are too busy to visit. You want to do it yourself but you got no skills.'' (M.ge) ''What useless home cookie you are dear. It is time to get over yourself. and werk as hard as you can to get out of this shithole.'' (M.Kedi) ''Yup, we moving and we ain't coming back'' (M.ie)

It did not occur to you that you could be possibly abused by the people you love. Scenario 1 you are already in your bubble of low self esteem. something is not good enough, you are the one to blame by your next of kin with inappropriate comments,  you throw a tantrum, they tell you to grow up and you reflect on your behaviour rationalise it all and say you are sorry and that you will do everything to change.  Then it repeats itself until you do all the cleaning, children rearing and for some reasons you are still not good enough. Poor you, you are such a victim. Scenario 2 you are busy doing something for yourself,  someone come into your space and tell you that they need your help, they even manipulate you saying that you'll be able to work on ur stuff later, that they really need you to drop them to see their sick mum or to look after their kids cos they need to go to a party, you want to say no but you say yes because you don't want them to think that you are not a nic