Most of us have grown up with roads and road signs. If we want to go somewhere, we get out the map (or digital equivalent), assess the best route, and follow the signs. Yet what do we do in uncharted territory? If we wait for the road to be built and the map to be … Read more
Yesterday I gave myself to sit with my question. It didn’t last long because physical sitting was too static. So I walked. Down the lane to retrieve our emptied recycling sack after the village collection time. Then up the valley to wander in the woods and by the brook. Movement certainly helped – Solvitur ambulando … Read more
We are here now for such a time as this. Not of our choosing, but our calling. For each of us, our ‘once upon a time’ has led to today. This day. DON’T SETTLE Don’t settle for a pale copy of reality –scratching your life on tracing paperinstead of splashing your own coloursupon the expectant … Read more
Many people, me included, were particularly struck by the last paragraph of Stephen St Amant’s blog – Filling the jar – that I quoted yesterday: Mourning the loss of all that we will never do is perhaps painful, but it’s necessary. If we don’t contend with that loss, it will continually get in the way … Read more
This is one of those great questions where we think we know the answer until we stop and think. In one sense, it doesn’t have an answer because it is the fundamental question of our existence and shapes our life, whether we are conscious of it or not. Yet on a less profoundly philosophical level, … Read more
WAKE UP The wind swims its wayaround suburban lanessinging whale-song to a manwho dreamsof joining it. Rise! is the cry –a call to actiondiving from the sky – why moor yourselfto an un-wandering life;you have been called by the windnow go: take flight. – Gideon Heugh, from Devastating Beauty May this poem find its way … Read more
For most of us, most of the time, the means to overcome the inertia that keeps us where we are is to take small steps. Often, the tiniest of steps will do to get us moving. However, there are also times, perhaps only once in every season of our life, when small steps aren’t sufficient. … Read more
So what stops us from moving forward? We often think it is fear or not enough discipline and willpower. Or perfectionism – we don’t want to fail. Perhaps it’s not knowing enough or being unclear about where we are going. Yes, all of these and more are contributors. And each of us will have our … Read more
“Christopher Robin came down from the Forest to the bridge, feeling all sunny and careless, and just as if twice nineteen didn’t matter a bit, as it didn’t on such a happy afternoon, and he thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of the bridge, and leant over, and watched the river slipping … Read more
Yesterday morning, the rain was cold. So cold it felt like sleet stinging against my face. But this is May! What’s going on? Being prepared for emergence is okay as long as I know what’s happening… Yet here’s the thing: life isn’t like that. It has never been. We’ve just built an illusion of control … Read more