Not So Big Life

I found this book by Sarah Susanka very helpful this year, especially for changing my relationship to time. A good working ‘hotch-potch’ of reflections and exercises strung together with her architectural metaphors and experience – she offers to help...

Scoop up rich brown handfuls

Scoop up rich brown handfuls, the kundalini travelling upwards, use belly fire, escort towards the heart, liberating softly these tightly curled wings. Relax into the upwards flow, the gentle persuasion coaxing and unravelling. Unwrap the cramped delicate webs, enrich...

I arrive adorned with trinkets

I arrive adorned with trinkets, beautiful words and concepts, beliefs I hold dear. The archway bids me bow, strip down, enter plain and vulnerable. Heat and steam, dark and stillness make way for inner light. Names dissipate, words dissolve. Light inside a diamond...

Let us give thanks for generous frugality

Let us give thanks for generous frugality, expansive sustainability, abundance that allows for constant planting. Let us sow new seeds for others to harvest, work in fields among the rocks and wild roses, slowly removing the prickles to leave fertile room. Let us...