Celebrating the menopause
I’ve just started my period.
Is that too much information?
You see, the thing is, I’m really pleased to have started my period because I’m getting to ‘that age’, the age where soon I won’t be having periods, but where I might soon be having hot sweats, insomnia, headaches, lapses of memory, mood swings, loss … Read more
Sea Lessons
We’re by the sea, a sea warm enough to swim in, float on and dabble in and it’s been teaching us lessons.
Here are some of the lessons the sea has been teaching me, practical, emotional and otherwise:
Teach your children to swim and make sure you can swim yourself
One of our group did … Read more
Sweat Lodge For Peace
I’ve been going to a sweat lodge.
A sweat lodge is at one level just a tent with hot rocks in it in the middle of a field filled with about 30 hot, sweaty, muddy people, most of whom don’t know each other.
At another level it is one of the most deeply moving and … Read more
Slavery – what if….
History
What if black male violence and gangs were understandable ?
What if we could look back not so many generations and remember the cruelty of the the slave trade. What if we had ancestors who were shipped; bound and suffocating across an ocean, sold like animals and then beaten, starved worked and raped as … Read more
Pendulum Swinging
A couple of years ago friend Clare told me about the pendulum affect and at the moment I’m noticing it all over the place in my life at the moment.
The pendulum affect is the swing from one extreme to another to eventually find the middle to settle in.
Brexit
So, take Brexit. Up until … Read more
Curious About Curiosity
- What are your early childhood messages about being curious?
‘Curiosity killed the cat’, ‘don’t be so nosy’, ‘don’t pry into other people’s business’, ‘it’s none of your business’, ‘asking personal questions is rude’. These are just a few of my childhood messages about curiosity.
Elizabeth Gilbert in Big Magic talks about how curiosity helped her … Read more