What Causes Suffering and How Can We Transcend It?

Suffering has been with humanity since humanity began I would suppose, and there has always been someone to help guide us, humans, through this nightmare, if we would only listen, observe and learn how to do it. Gautam Siddhartha, better known as The Buddha, from India. devoted his life to helping people transcend their suffering…

What Question Best Assesses the Success of Your Life?

Autumn is one of those times of the year that seems to bring on deep reflection. Maybe it’s the leaf-musty slightly damp weather that holds something of both warmth and sadness. A wistfulness intrinsically woven through the mist that loops its magic fingers into the sleepy world. I’m not sure why this question came to…

Anything is Possible

Jane and I took photos of one another waving and waving… I was standing on the quay and she was on the ferry, sailing away from Gozo island… She’d like to come back she said, to this shiny little pearl of bright energy right in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea …. Back at the…

The Magic of Marrakech

As I finished my intervals today, and was jogging back to meet Jamal and Anadi on the dusty sunny parkland that I have become accustomed too, I passed two camels, they were ‘humping’, as Jamal described their union, in a very relaxed fashion… Their owner was standing a discreet distance away, and they seemed very…

The Importance of Play and Creativity in Our Lives

I want to touch more deeply on the topic of PLAY. Ideally PLAY and creativity should be connected, should be tapping the same place.  The difficulty we have in western/ modern society, is that we don’t really  play.  We are very disconnected from that place, of playing.  There is an excellent book, Playing by Heart…