Introducing myself and this blog
This is a graphical visualisation of data extracted from tweets containing the hashtag #breastcancer. It was created by Eric Clarke, Richard Arnett & Jane Burns and won the Wellcome Image Award 2017 for visual representation of complex data. The image is from the Wellcome website.http://www.wellcomeimageawards.org/2017/breast-cancer-Twitter-connections I think it's beautiful. And it reminds me that there are so many other people out there with breast cancer too. Hello! This post is to introduce myself and to tell you a bit about why I'm writing this blog. I've got to the part of life where, as the stories have it, you sit under the olive tree and watch your grandchildren playing. I don't have great pressures on me to get stuff done any more, to make my fortune, to find 'the one', or even to make a mark in the world. But what I want to do is to use my personal library of knowledge about being human to help other people navigate the sometimes choppy w