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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...
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,...
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....
the soul desires expression
we are all broken each one of us not just those who so generously let us let it witness it, but every human being tied to her human family with the pain, strife, war and famine that have lived before...
Trump, Tom and Freedom Song
This week a dear friend shared with me that a brilliant young man we both know (let's call him Tom) has recently become radicalised to alt right philosophies and was keen to attend speaking tour of Canadian alt-right speakers Lauren Southern and Stefan...
Our brokenness is a legitimate part of our humanity
For some reason this sentence has been on my mind almost every day for the last few weeks. We are all broken, just as we are all perfect in our imperfection. We have recently become aware of the suicides of two...
Meditation helps in practical ways
I love meditation. It has helped me through my darkest times, and is always there to ground and balance me when I need it. It’s free and it’s wonderful and I think everyone should try it at least once. Spending twenty...
Stop, look and listen
Some things are just infinitely sad. And they always will be. We all have memories that are sad and traumatic so we tiptoe around them, shut them out, or actively run away from them. And that's as it should be....
Our mother...
Our Mother beneath our feet blessed be your name. Your wisdom come, your love be felt on earth that we can make it a heaven. Give us today our daily compassion, and forgive us loving ourselves too little....