Longing for spring: musings on Trust:
August 21, 2022
The two months after the Midwinter Solstice always seem to be the coldest and wettest time.
Having passed the shortest day, I start to long for warmth and sun and blue skies. I am tired of all the layers I need to wear. After my daily cold water dip in the ocean, I yank my ...
I am Re-imagining Myself my way ...
March 4, 2021
Walk Thoughts
January 8, 2021
I am not making resolutions this year
I haven't felt moved to make new year resolutions this year. If 2020 taught me anything it was that seemingly random stuff - like Covid, like the circus in the US right now - happens; that so much of our lives in a story in our heads, or more dangerously, in Donald Trump's h...
Why I love the Inanna story so much
November 30, 2020
I first came across the Inanna story 35 years ago, whilst living in London. This was an intense time of inner exploration; heady emotional days filled with workshops and courses while working full time to create a not-for-profit parenting organisation with my late husband, I...
We experience so many transitions during our lives. So few of them are marked or celebrated. Birth, marriage and death are the most popular. Some transitions like turning 21 used to be considered important but now that young people are considered adults at 18, the need to 'r...
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