Today, looking in the mirror, splashing cool water on my face, I thought how everything really comes down to clarity and intention. This summer I’ve been peeling back the layers. Determined to see, like a tired child propping eyelids open Read more…
I’ll never forget celebrating my 23rd birthday, and feeling like I was completely starting over and knew nothing. I certainly wasn’t starting over, as at the time I was living in a great flat, in my first stable salary Read more…
I wrote this piece during Wild Writing today; a writing group I have been a part of every Monday (minus a few weeks here & there) since September 2012. Every week Laurie reads us a poem, and we get a Read more…
Written at Wild Writing last Monday, prior to launching my latest offering: Skydiving: Gathering the Courage to Take the Big Jump “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.” ― Rumi Spill out. Recklessly Read more…
Stand still. Listen. Listen to the pulse of your heartbeat, even when it lives in the small of your back, your tired feet, your tight shoulders. Be still and listen. Then move slowly, in place. Breathing into the space. The Read more…
Guided wisdom as old as the highest branch That’s just fallen But not to death For this branch now becomes roots Into the rich soil That has fed it for so many years Regenerating, rejuvenating and sprouting new
The present. The this. The already going that moves us forward. A little train the could. A pedestrian putting one foot in front of the other, to get to the store, that meeting, a lover, a fateful doctors appointment. As Read more…