by Eugenie Verney | Feb 15, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
Here we are on Day 5 of my 21 Days of Transience, pondering what it is that makes somewhere safe… When, exactly, in the past year did everyone start ending conversations, meetings, calls, emails with ‘stay safe’? And what does ‘stay safe’ even mean? What’s safe...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 12, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
Day 4 of my 21 Days of Transience takes me beyond check-in and off-grid… Was a time when I’d head for an airport and pull on this endearing mantle of anonymity, and have it comfortably in place before reaching check-in. I’d park ‘regular me’ and morph...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 11, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
On Day 3 of my 21 Days of Transience, we head for rural Gloucestershire… I never thought to ask my aunt exactly why her husband wanted to be buried in a Gloucestershire churchyard. Born Vilmos Levy into a family of Budapest doctors and intellectuals, he was...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 10, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
On to Day 2 of my 21 Days of Transience, which held me at bay for most of a day… When you’re not sure how to start, start anyway. The whole transience piece is clearly at odds with the whole concept of calling somewhere ‘home’. Or maybe it isn’t, not entirely....
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 9, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
And we’re off. It’s Day 1 of this annual writing challenge imagined into reality by Megan Macedo, founder of Be Yourself Marketing and a remarkable philosopher and writer. For the fourth time, I’m joining a group of writers from across the world who forget from year...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 8, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
One brief flurry of activity apart, I have added nothing to this blog since Megan Macedo’s 2020 writing challenge. That was never my plan, but as last year’s 21-day roller coaster of words drew to a close in late February, the coronavirus storm clouds were well and...