Consciously Aware of Our Choices…
I am on a train from Waterloo to Salisbury… I am meeting my sister Rosy for my birthday treat lunch… I do enjoy a birthday that runs for 6 weeks! It has felt like an adventure of a day already… Anadi and I rose early, just before 6am, with the intention to run in Grovelands…
Bowing in Grace
Jean sat in her favorite chair in the kitchen by the screen of an open window. She blew her cigarette smoke out past the tiny metal mesh, which temporarily protected her New England farmhouse from a few select mosquitoes of early summer. My new near-80-year-old poet and housemate seemed to love looking out the window,…
When the Blue Comes In
Can’t sleep. The phenomenon called pain is very active. And in addition there is some energy in me. I don’t know what it is, but it makes me awake. I slept for three hours. I am very awake and clear. I come to the studio and do this drawing. At first, before I put the…
Your Experience is Valuable and Not Opinable
Sometimes in life lessons come in the most unexpected way … It was a nice sunny Sunday in April and my partner and I decided to have a short break on the Isle of Wight, as it is quite close from where we live and it is in a sensible flying distance for a small…
The Road of Life Reveals Itself…
This morning I walked up the path from our London ‘home for awhile,’ and was greeted by Octavious… He was out in the sun having his breakfast… I look forward to seeing him when we land in North London, I was telling Nina our dueña that Octavious the forty year old tortoise is famous, and…
Staying Balanced and Sane in Stressful Situations
What an interesting process it is, selling your house and looking for a new place to live! The first response everyone gives me when I say that we’re moving is: “Oh, that’s so stressful…!” My husband and I have been house hunting for a couple of months now. We’re looking for a place with land…
Unchartered Pilgrimage of the Heart
I arrived with my friends Carl and Molly at the colonial farmhouse that would be my summer home—my three months with God, the earth, and my broken body and spirit. The old, dark brown house stood only inches away from the cracked, New England road that epitomized what I loved about this part of the…
Father Came to Visit in a Dream
For some time, faces wanted to come into my abstract drawings. It took me some time to let them in. They were persistent. Late at night, which is already the next day’s morning, on 4/2/14 I came to my table to write: I see now and admire the child, the little child, furious and angry,…
Top 5 Remedial Applications of Apple Cider Vinegar
There are many household items which do wonders for your health and beauty, you just need to know about them first! The popularity of holistic and DIY skin care, health remedies, and other home and beauty fixes is on the rise, and when you think about the cost and time spent, it’s no wonder! If…
Eleven Months – Eleven Miles….
We woke at 5.40am yesterday – the morning sun creeping over the hills, softly softly – the day gentle and balmy, the temperature clement, like a fresh summer morn… But we knew the force of the sun’s rays would soon be beaming down on us, in vibrant yellow energy, hot, shining shards of light; until…
How to Discover your Sacred Moontime Harmony
I am blessed to sit where the view of my world is an ocean, snuggled by mountains on either side, a river that meanders down from somewhere and empties into the ocean that is bordered by a beach lined with simple, open air restaurants whose roofs are palm fronds, and where motor boats are parked…
Feeling Your Way from Stress into ‘Flow’ – Part 5 of 5
Another way to support this is through ‘play’. I’m taking this in its broadest terms, to refer to something that you enjoy doing, that lights you up inside and that ‘makes your heart sing’ – the things that, when you are engaged in them, time ceases to exist and you’re just enjoying the moment. This…