Life
The gift of the joy bird
I felt like I had lost my sparkle. I didn’t know if it was post holiday blues, or something deeper. All I knew, was I was undeserving of one of my ...
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Life
Life is Fragile
Things can change very quickly. One moment you can be on firm footing. The next, you are being swept away. In a different direction you never expe...
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Meditation
Meditation, my teacher
Inspired by the beautiful Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher, which everyone is watching, I sat and thought about who, or what in life, are my...
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Meditation
The meditation cocoon
The intermediate space between being awake and asleep is a beautiful suspended state. Reaching and then hanging out at this threshold for a while ...
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Wayapa
Time to listen
To listen to the footstep of our ancestors and their hearts beating in time with ours.
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Life
Waiting for Summer
I was reminded last night about the importance of hope, and I am gripping hold of it tightly, with two hands. Without hope, there is simply despair...
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Life
The power of plant-based food
For us, taking meat and dairy out of our diet has helped us in our crusade to dramatically reduce the amount of plastic we use.
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Grief
Miss you, dad
You’ve been gone, in the physical sense, for nine long years. And although I know you are here with us in other ways, hanging out, watching over us...
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Life
Perception of time
The time passed, but not without some level of discomfort. And the more we watched the time, the slower it passed.
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Meditation
Meditation, my friend
Like the Japanese art of Kintsugi, meditation is my lacquer, dusted with gold. Gently, firmly and beautifully it fills the delicate lines on the su...
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Life
The magic of kindness
I recently realised something about being human. A simple and beautiful reality. We are all vessels of joy. Each and every single one of us. Some o...
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