by Di Shearer | Jul 20, 2026 | An Update On My Health
I have lived by the maxim: I will not die an unlived life I have asked myself over and over: is the life that I am living the life that wants to express itself through me Now as I face a cancer diagnosis and a threat to quality and length of life, I am asking: how...
by Di Shearer | Nov 30, 2025 | Poems
Too Busy So busy doing, there’s no time for being.So busy living, there’s no thought of dying.So busy thinking, there’s no mindfulness. So distracted, there’s no concentra2on.So distraught, there’s no freedom here.So disaffected, there’s no space for seeing. So tense...
by Di Shearer | Nov 28, 2025 | Poems
This Little Goldfish Do you see how small this little goldfish really is?It swims all day in this glass bowl and knows it can’t grow any bigger.But see, beyond the front door, the pond where her relatives live.They swim all day in their pool and they too have reached...
by Di Shearer | Nov 23, 2025 | Poems
Spinning and Weaving My Life by Di Shearer https://dishearer.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Spinning-and-Weaving-My-Life.mp3 Spinning my life is a daily skill. It takes pedalling at even pace, spreading and feeding fleece to form thin thread, ...
by Di Shearer | Jan 14, 2025 | Stories
One inch from the end of the spiral of time below, humans appear in our records of Earth and sky. Within that appearance, the child whose birth we celebrate as Christmas was born, when the time was right. Now two thousand years later, we are still learning to work out...
