Pebbles From Paradise

Years ago Joe Sinclair and Michael Mallows founded a little journal and named it  ’Nurturing Potential’. It did rather well, and pushed on for several years publishing articles and book reviews about business and personal development, spiritual health, clean language, and a host of other wholesome things.

Nothing lasts forever and so now it’s been some years since an issue was published.

Imagine my surprise, a month or so, back – when I learned that Joe and Michael are thinking of reviving the journal and adding ‘the arts’ into the mix!

Well seeing is believing, but Joe has asked me for a cover design, and yesterday I reviewed 3 specialist encyclopedias published by Sage Inc, to be included in the re-launch issue.

Here’s my proposed cover graphic.

Cover for New Nurturing Potential

Well another week passed on our ‘hybrid diet’ and I’ve done lots of gardening and practical stuff, walked most mornings around Kumlubük, and perhaps not surprisingly I’ve lost two more kilos.

What’s more I’ve been the main cook during this past fortnight, not that what I’ve been producing has required lots of culinary skill – but I do make a very attractive looking salad, which sometimes has been dressed up with a little smoked fish, or some kind of egg dish.

Today, Mother’s Day in Turkey, we had a real treat because Damla cooked a wonderful chocolate cake. Normally, we wouldn’t eat anything this rich, but as it was a celebration, and one which Amazon, and her friend Fatma Nur worked so hard to make perfect, somehow it was just the right thing.

I had a third thing to celebrate other than Mother’s Day and my weight loss  — at last my book Photography and Psychoanalysis: Developing a Psychology of Effective Image Making, is published on Kindle.

Unfortunately, I cocked up the formatting of the description and although that’s now corrected the changes haven’t yet worked their way through Amazon’s system, so there are some faults on the sales page . . . but I’m sure it will come right in the end.

Here’s the video promo announcing ‘Photography and Psychoanalysis’. We had lots of fun, and worked with wonderful people making it. Click through and watch it now:

What is a hybrid diet? Well it’s the name I made up for a regimen that’s part juiced fruit and vegetables, and part solid food.

It occurs to me that there’s two ways of starting a hybrid diet, and they must be very different experiences.

One way to start is how Irem and I have made the transition. We drank fresh juice for a period of time, and then slowly added solid food back into our eating.

But some people might never attempt a period of pure juicing, but simply replace one of their meals, or supplement their diet with pure juice. There’s nothing wrong with this approach, but it occurs to me that although it seems easier, it may not be as straightforward as following a time of pure juicing.

Why do I think this so? It’s really quite simple. When you go on a pure juice diet all that sustains you is pure juice, but this means that in one act of will you eschew tea, coffee, alcohol, meat, fish, eggs, pasta, bread, milk, cheese . . . shall I continue?

When you stop surviving on pure juice your choice is what to put back into your eating habits, rather than what to give up.

If you attempt a hybrid diet from day one then you must choose just what you’re going to eat with your juice. Quite frankly, if you’re a ten pints of stout a day man, no amount of juice is going to help you.

Walking early gives us some wonderful sea views