Who/what/when is your family?
In 2012 (gulp!) I wrote a blog about Soul Family: the people who really get you, see you, know you, accept you, challenge you and like you even when you have been an idiot.
I even wrote about it in my first book Love Being Me.
To help people think about this I … Read more
Kindness and trees
Walking down the church path with a friend,
we bump in to her friends
and talk of this and that
until we bump into each other’s faith,
one this, and one that,
and I stop and breathe,
‘my religion is kindness and trees’
I say, and on reflection,
that is more than enough.… Read more
‘…Your one wild and precious life?’
It is a Tuesday and I have cleared my diary so that I can work in the garden with the man who knows trees.
‘It’s 2/2/22’ chirps the fruit and veg man and we both wonder if we will live to see 3/3/33, what difference will 11 years make.
‘Tell me, what is it you … Read more
Creating Communities that Care through Covid-19
Schools will close
So..by the time you read this the decision may have been made, if not I strongly predict that schools will be closed by the end of the week and that we will be in ‘lock down’ and told to ‘socially distance’. Already, many corporates have had their employees working from home and … Read more
I Asked The Sky For Advice
So..I’m pondering making a change in my life at the moment and I’ve done the Energy Life Map and drawn lists of strengths and weaknesses and listened to what my heart say and my heart is very clear on what it wants..which typically in direct opposition to my head.
So I went for a walk, … Read more
2 Trees – the nature of relationships
P and I were talking….about the nature of relationships…your average Sunday conversation.
He used the metaphor of 2 trees standing side by side but apart which reminded me of what Kahil Gibran says in ‘The Prophet’:
… Read moreGive your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your