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For my friend who is suffering
My friend, I know you are suffering and I feel there is little I can do to ease that deep pain for you. I wish I could. When I look into your eyes, I see the same sorrow and...
Keep calm in the eye of the storm
Nature has taught me many things. Without her, I would not have found the space and stillness to embrace myself more fully, both my darkness and my light.
For Zari who couldn't stay
You came as we all do; agreeing to a body, vulnerable and unique. You saw, felt took it in deep. Could I have sat beside you through the deepest of that dark, dark night? You went silently,...
Conversing with Corona
How do you survive? I survive because you have failed to protect your mother earth and you have failed to protect yourselves. You have lost your connections to yourselves and to the earth and this is one of the...
Heal fraught relationships with Ho’oponopono
We all have people in our lives that we worry about. They may be in the clutches of addiction, they may be unwell, or we may have become estranged from them because of their bad behaviour. There are also people...
Sitee Shariffe
As I move towards putting my art and my vision out into the world I'm drawing strength from my great, great grandmother Shariffe. She inspires me to face down my fear, to take one step at a time, to...
Nature makes me kinder
This week has not been one of my best. I have been overloaded, overwhelmed and overburdened...plugging away at my never ending "to do" list , snapping at the kids and fighting with my husband about every little thing. I think...
Modern rage and the fight for consent
"#metoo is just the tip of the iceberg in our powerful fight for consent, not just over our own bodies but over the body of our planet." There is lots of anger in our world right now, from the fires in...
Dear Amazonia
Dear Amazonia, I apologise on behalf of humanity. Unlike your mother, nature, who acts in response to natural rhythms, we humans have replaced cycles with unnatural greed that ironically threatens our own long-term survival more than it does your own....