"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains" Jean-Jacques Rousseau There is so much information these days on how to manage our inner dialogue. Through our favourite search engine, there are a multiple different strategies. Often our inner dialogue, especially if it is negative,...
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,- While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue" John Keats It is that time of year when we transition into the cold and darkness...
The Waking- Walt Whitman I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go.We think by feeling. What is there to know?I hear my being dance from ear to ear.I wake...
"One day I promised to God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting" Mariah CareyI don't want to sound preachy...
"The wound is the place where the light enters" Rumi I saw an old friend last night who had been seeing the limitations of themselves in relation to their injury. We do this. We limit ourselves. What happens when we are no longer able to do...
“If I can get out of my own way, If I can be pure enough, If I can be selfless enough And if I can be generous and loving and caring enough To abandon what I have and my own Preconceived silly notions of what I think I am And become...
“For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient The Newdegate Cave at Hastings was glorious. Cheeky, and filled with a lightness that desired interplay. Many...
"This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival;A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.Welcome and attend them all!Even if they're a crowd of sorrowswho violently sweep your house empty of furniture,still, treat each guest honourable.He...
"The areas in which we feel most stuck and most incompetent may be our richest gold mine of developing material" Free Play This year, I had wanted to walk the Camino de Santiago across Northern Spain. I have known about "il camino" for over 20 years and...