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Nature can be tempered, controlled and used to great advantage or negative impact. But, deep down we know that nature will ultimately just do what she does. I’m waging an internal war with the tree next door. It flicks its tiny leaves like confetti into our yard. Confetti that gets between your toes and intoContinue reading “Nature will have her way.”

I’ve been on and off planes a bit lately. The magic of flight and blur of time as we cross kilometres of green, brown, populated, sparce and complex earth. A land dotted with trees and storylines. I sometimes gaze down through lumpy shape-shifting clouds – when I have the window seat, that is. I nowContinue reading “That Profound Sky”

Let’s do something, we both agreed. And in the doing of something we ended up doing almost nothing. My partner and I have stopped speaking with each other. Not due to animosity or pettiness or lack of anything to say, but because of this place. We’re camping off-grid. But, you know, we’re very much partContinue reading “Isolated – in a good way”

In my case, literally running away became a solution. Running. Yes, running. That’s something that other people do. Some of my friends, who are the busiest people I know, find time and energy to run. I always thought that that was for them. Why run when you can stroll? Why get puffed when you canContinue reading “How to run away from your problems.”

Blue tack. Genius invention. Attaches things, brings things together. Is open to change, movement and shape-shifting. Commits just as long as it’s needed and then can move on to be re-used somewhere else. Allows beauty to be displayed, lists to remind, rock posters to inspire, and gaps to fill. And when you’re ready to pickContinue reading “Why friendliness is like blue tack.”

I’m not talking major global issues or humanitarian problems here but the ability of some people to comment and warn rather than walk past or turn away. The ability to put themselves in another’s shoes (without trying them on, so to speak). One of the first questions I asked my partner at our first dateContinue reading “To speak up or look away”

Off-trend is not out-dated. Off-trend is a conscious decision to dismiss what is fashionable. Forbes.com reported in February that Facebook lost approximately 500,000 daily users in the last three months of 2021. I’ve never had a Facebook page. Never. I’m not suggesting that Facebook is a fad – but it is possible to live withoutContinue reading “Why it’s on-trend to be off-trend”

So here’s the thing about loneliness. It’s the absence, not of friends or companions or family, it’s the absence of drive. And how does drive appear or disappear? It is not gifted or inherited. It’s learned. And the learning is connected to worthiness. Without feeling worthy, there’s no drive. When there’s no drive, there’s loneliness.Continue reading “The space between the compliments”

I bumped into a friend of a friend recently. She’d not long ago left her job – the human-side of it she’d loved, the politics and paperwork not so much. I asked her about now. What was she doing now (as though she needed to be ‘doing’ something). ‘What do you do?’ and ‘What areContinue reading “Just rip off the label (like a band aid)”

Blackout. It’s not just the loss of lighting or communication but memory-related episodes as well. What happens when you blackout or lose consciousness? Where do you go? More importantly, where does your mind wander? So different from the patterns of sleep where dreams might drag you through the realities of the day or to incredibleContinue reading “Where the mind will wander”