Heartache

Heartache and grief, these are what I am feeling today ever since I heard the news of what happened on a Friday in a small town similar to so many in America, and for which we pride ourselves on the friendliness, the ease of knowing your neighbors, of the community...

Collective Responsibility

All of us the world over are reeling from the events of recent days. Overwhelming grief, confusion, looking for why in the sea of none of it makes sense, how to find a way to reconcile, to forgive, to move forward, to find joy, to get through the day. The senseless...

Intuitive understanding

Hold still for just a moment. Listen. Listen fully with your heart of wakefulness and joy. Settle your mind for just a second, a moment, a morning if you wish. Making tea, hold cup, water steam evaporate. Breathe, be still come back from wherever it is you wander, the...

Trees of greenery and lace

Trees, I simply love trees, and in the local park wandering amongst the fresh fallen leaves still wet from the rain, I wonder what it feels like to be a huge and ancient tree.  The bark weathered and worn, the roots deep in the soil, the Knowing of so much, just by...

Time and Space

What is it about time that suspends belief? Why is it some moments are forever it seems and others pass in a swift blip of expediency> Have you ever wondered where exactly time abides, where does space begin. What is the molecular separation between people,...

Heaven on Earth signs and symbols

What does it mean to find Heaven on Earth. Well the other day I was arriving home, having just completed a many months long project and there was a little white van which drove by as I was getting out or our car, which had two white kerchiefed ladies waving to me...