Travels inward, outward bound…
Cleanse my being of the labours of witness Wash away the perils of humanity Those absorbed without consent The burdens of unmet needs And wants They stirred to cellular inflammation A thousand unseen tears Grief Anger Fear Unholy regret Noise and dissonance and song Flow beyond me Gently till the bedding for breath and light [...]
When you go away for a short while, fitting in a few blogs is a bit of a tall order. But here is the final offering from my five day excursion to the red centre. We are on the plane home, we have waved goodbye to the big red rock and the landscape that has [...]
I am in love with a rock. A massive, ancient, red rock. It’s presence, it’s soft folds and it’s crumbled edges. It’s perches for flora and fauna. It’s generosity and it’s dominance. It’s otherworldliness, it’s stillness. We drove back to our red centre starting point, heading west after a Kings Canyon 2 day excursion. We [...]
“Three Ingredients” I will leave for Uluru shortly. It’s high time I made this journey to the heart of this land. What will I see, what will I do... and more importantly, what will I feel? I am prepared to find this a deeply spiritual experience. Or am I? Recently I have been meditating on [...]
The title suggested by younger son when wishing me happy Father's Day (another story) with whom I briefly discussed my new blog idea. Based on the general interest in "Escape to the Country", "Escape from the City", "I want a life less ordinary life" movement (?), especially popular with my cohort. In this blog I [...]
The Welsh sojourn comes to an end. I am in Cardiff and just waved goodbye to David after he spent 3 days with us at the conclusion of the London season of Driftwood with Casus. He is staying on, rehearsing with the two troupes in Cardiff, before further touring in Europe. Rosie will take a side [...]
Where to begin... Here I sit in my cosy Welsh cottage after a late afternoon ramble with Rosie. This will be our home for the next week. We arrived yesterday after a one night stopover from where we picked up the car. And so to complete the picture of my oh-so-British sojourn I am scooting [...]
I have been meditating a lot recently on the total improbability of life and consciousness. And how as a woman ("of a certain age") from a comfortable background, living in the land of milk and honey, I exist with so many human endeavours over so many thousands of years creating this reality. I find myself [...]
So today I must write. I feel the welling desire to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard, in truth). I have begun many a new entry for this blog over the past 8 months but they sit in the drafts file awaiting completion or at least to be fodder for further writings, somewhere [...]
Where did that path really begin... I am taking an historical approach to consider where I am now and where I am heading... in the short term at least. Have you seen those pictures of the gravitational astronomy or the path that our solar system takes over time? Consider a path in life like this; [...]
Presence in Place 