Sunday Blog 40 – 12th June 2022 “I don’t believe things happen for a reason, I just believe life is actually the randomness we see around us.” Maya Shankar, Episode 17. Riz Ahmed Plays Himself, at the 17:25 minute mark It’s been a week of rich listening on various podcasts, including a favourite, A Little …
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Seven Year Cycles…
Holiday Monday Blog – 6th June 2022 While I have some regrets about this, I did not send my daughter to Steiner School. She comforts me by reminding me she wouldn’t have met her partner if she hadn’t gone to the school she did, so I think I have let that go now. But still, …
Snagged on the to-do list…
Sunday Blog 38 – 29th May 2022 It’s a Saturday morning, after yoga and we’re having coffee. I haven’t been for a while so some of my fellow yogis ask me how it’s been going since I left work, almost exactly two months ago now. I reel off the things I’ve been doing – making …
Outgoings of this last tremendous tide…
Sunday Monday Blog 37 – May 22 2022 “What beautiful earrings!” my Hairdresser complimented me. This happens to me quite a lot now. Since my friend Lencie died earlier this year, her many many pretty things were divided up among her family and friends. So we are carrying her around, each and every day. Earrings, …
Artist Dates
Sunday Blog 36 – May 15 2022 a weekly expedition to explore something that enchants or interests you Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, in a 2015 blog https://juliacameronlive.com/2015/02/24/the-magic-of-artist-dates/ About seven years ago I got serious about that classic book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and began my Morning Pages (three pages of hand-writing …
10 May 2002
There is a trigger warning for this post which references sexual assault. Please take care when reading. “One day this date won’t mean anything. You won’t even remember it.” So said a friend of mine about the date that changed me forever. 10th May 2002. At the time I was dubious, and twenty years later …
Love Note to Quairading
Sunday Blog 35 – May 8 2022 It’s not that often that a group of women who meet at a Retreat follow through with meeting up again. You know how it goes (especially if you are a Retreat fanatic like I am) – you meet awesome women, exchange numbers or emails and promise to meet …
Finding clarity…
Sunday Blog 34 – 1 May 2022 It’s now been exactly a month since I left my job (see here for the Eerie Quiet blog update) and I am well into the swing of my new life. That new swing of literally never going back to work. And back sharing the housework with darling husband. …
Dial 1 for frustration…
Sunday Blog 33 – 24th April 2022 You know the deal – you ring, you choose the appropriate number for the service you are seeking, the hold music starts. It stops and for a second you are hopeful, but instead the automated voice advises you of all the many things you can do on their …
Enneagram
Sunday Blog 32 – 17th April 2022 (Happy Easter!) I still recall my mother coming home from a workshop (in itself an unusual occurrence) in the early 1980’s all alight with the new-found knowledge of the Enneagram. “Ennea” is the Greek word for nine, and the Enneagram is a model of the human psyche of …