ByJulia Chi
Today Jane and I had a very happy day, mainly spent in the laundrette… We had started the day again on a very wild and windy Woolacombe beach, and come gratefully home to the delicious Score Valley House Hotel breakfast, where we had a lot of fun showing Paul and Donna – our hosts –…
ByCatherine Green
I have been practising meditation for over ten years now and have reached a point in my spiritual journey where I feel peaceful almost all the time. Yes, I do feel stress because that is what happens when you live in the modern world. My husband is facing redundancy and job insecurity, and because he…
ByGuglielminotti Trivel
During my life I went through moments of great individualisation and great melt down; the moments of individualisation were all those ones when myself as an individual achieved great things that were peculiar to my life, experience, vision and interests. The moments of melt down were all those times when my being was crashed and…
ByGiora Carmi
When I illustrated ’The Chanukah Tree’ I was in a period in my illustration in which I was very aware of every single brushstroke that I made. It had to feel a certain way. I can remember the feeling that I sought. Now imagine: How many brush strokes were there in the book and in…
ByJulia Chi
Supporting Josie in her quest to ‘not do an Ironman’ is proving to be a very serious endurance experience for Jane and I… So far we have completed day two of our ‘cream tea eating challenge’, and we have returned home proud of the achievement, if not a little exhausted from the effort…! Yesterday we…
ByCatherine Green
I’m a bad witch! I missed the January Supermoon a few days ago. I vaguely noticed that the moon was growing bigger, and I knew it would be full moon soon, but I hardly found time to appreciate it, and only learned afterwards that it was a supermoon. The energy of these lunar events can…
ByMichelle Adam
The gourd sits on my table. A gold-carved design caresses its top. Equally ornate metal straws sit inside. The gourd was once my father’s, used for drinking Yerba Mate, a tea Argentinians drink as a national past-time and obsession. My father’s bombilla remains with me although he left almost two years ago. It reminds me…
ByGiora Carmi
In the foreground there is a gate and above it is the agitated activity of the lines that look like branches of a tree. When we come to the blue lines in the upper part, the character of the lines changes and becomes more like the movements of playing, wondering and inventing. See that? The…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I arrived here in Ilfracombe on Monday evening, we were met by our host who wasn’t wearing shoes! ‘Barefoot’ I exclaimed as if I were greeting one of my tribe… ‘I’m always getting told off for it’ he laughed… ‘No no…’ I continued; ‘I’m a barefooter too…’ I didn’t realise until that moment…
ByCatherine Green
You might have seen my previous blog posts about the rare genetic eye disorder that I live with. Over the years I have called it an illness, a disease, a pain in the backside, and a few other choice words that I won’t repeat here. I finally settled on referring to it as a rare…
ByCatherine Green
This is the time of year when the world tells us that we must detox our bodies, refresh our minds, and do a million and one activities to care for ourselves. You know what I’m talking about: Dry January (no alcohol consumption for the month), Veganuary (a vegan diet for the month), gym membership, weight…
ByGiora Carmi
Maybe it is strange, but these days nothing is more pleasant to me than sitting quietly somewhere and watching the interface with the quiet space that is always there, seeing how a few moving things in my mind calm down, feeling the body relaxing and staying there. A person passes in the street on his…