Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Like your friends or colleagues are going to discover you’re a fraud, and you don’t actually deserve your job and accomplishments? If so, you’re in good company. These feelings are known as Imposter Syndrome, or what psychologists often call impostor phenomenon. An estimated 70% of people experience […]
The Imposter Syndrome Is Real! — Bombay Ficus
*So is the imposter syndrome real?
Dare to dream of peace
Dare dream of lasting justice
Dream reality
Copyright Francis Barker 2020 — who dares to dream?
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
copyright Francis Barker 2020
copyright Francis Barker 2020
copyright Francis Barker 2020
copyright Francis Barker 2019
Summer is not far away, fickle though it may be in England’s northerly reaches.
To us as children the good days were glorious; down at the beach the sun was our friend, the sea and sand our playmates through the days which would last forever. Eternity was within our reach – then.
In reality nothing much has changed, only our perception of reality.
paintings by Francis Barker
Poor Things
At some stage or another
we all become poor things
The man who once
pulled trucks and trains for fun
in a gown
and listening to a nurse
image and poem © copyright df barker 2012
