October 19, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Hello I see your pain We celebrate happiness as the holy grail, and in so doing, we make the emotional scale of human life wrong. Can we hold happiness and grief simultaneously? It is impossible to sit with someone living in the grip of an existential crisis or deep...
October 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
Walls “The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there.” Ursula K. Le Guin I think about the walls I have built in my life. Walls to protect that also keep those with no intent to harm out. Walls that...
October 8, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
If you live in a glass house do not throw stones I remember this proverb from my childhood. I was taught quite a few like this. For example. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Chaucer wrote the glass house proverb in 1385 Troilus and...
October 5, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
We can be the light If everything around you seems dark, look again, you may be the light. Rumi What an invitation. To realise that we can be the light. This is always our choice. It can be hard, when the darkness is heavy upon us, to find the light inside. But...
October 4, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The tension between We know great love because we know all that is not love. Pain, isolation, rejection. We know great beauty because we know all that is not beauty. Trees felled in their thousands, giant pits to extract something deemed more precious than the beauty...
September 29, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The flavours of exhaustion Grief sucks everything out, leaving an infinite black cavity. Fear desiccates, our interiors shredded into micro fragments, the lizard in us hyper-reactive. Anxiety is walking a tightrope across a chasm of broken glass. A singular focus....
