August 17, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The little things What a morning. I pay homage to the little things. I can walk pain-free. I stop to get fresh food on the way home. I do not live in terror of bombs, gunfire, or being randomly shot by an over-armed citizenry. The air is clean. My drinking water is...
August 16, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Pick the real battle Today, one week to the day after my love had his chest cracked open and his body placed on a heart pump, we sit at our coffee shop after a very gentle walk by the ocean. The waves gentle and the whales breaching 100 metres from the shore. So...
August 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The animating force called life In my University student days, I spent hundreds of hours in the anatomy lab dissecting cadavers. All of my fellow students were nervous on that first day. How would we cope? Yet a cadaver prepared for dissection is as life-like as the...
August 14, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Expand and contract This last week has been a week of contraction. Singular focus. All extraneous activities and noise turned off. My mental bandwidth resisting, for a good reason, anything but what needs to be attended to. It has not been the time to expand my...
August 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Excellence The path to excellence is a commitment. The want to be better, greater and wiser is a call that may arise from so many places of conflict. Often to prove to others, to be loved and accepted, to be seen. Sometimes, it is because we love the journey, the...
August 12, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings
Are we kind On Wednesday my love had open heart surgery, an extreme trauma to his body, mind, being. The field of support for him has been beautiful. I often think about the nature of humanity. Adversity really is a test of character. Are we kind? Do we offer love?...
