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For my friend who is suffering
My friend, I know you are suffering and I feel there is little I can do to ease that deep pain for you. I wish I could. When I look into your eyes, I see the same sorrow and...
For Zari who couldn't stay
You came as we all do; agreeing to a body, vulnerable and unique. You saw, felt took it in deep. Could I have sat beside you through the deepest of that dark, dark night? You went silently,...
Nature makes me kinder
This week has not been one of my best. I have been overloaded, overwhelmed and overburdened...plugging away at my never ending "to do" list , snapping at the kids and fighting with my husband about every little thing. I think...
Our Mother
Our Mother beneath our feet blessed be your name. Your wisdom come your love be felt on earth that we can make it a heaven. Give us today our daily compassion and forgive us for loving ourselves...
Trump, Tom and Freedom Song
This week a dear friend shared with me that a brilliant young man we both know (let's call him Tom) has recently become radicalised to alt right philosophies and was keen to attend speaking tour of Canadian alt-right speakers Lauren Southern and Stefan...
How to be grateful when life sucks...
In these crazy times in which we live, we have somehow come to believe that life should be easy and that we deserve for things to go our way. And if they’re not there is something wrong with us and...
Why can't life just be easy?
And it might be that this act of loving ourselves in the depth of our pain could, in some way we cannot understand, relieve the suffering of those around us.,and of the world.