Old buildings Ornate facades Behind them lay Tumbled down staircases Missing bricks Broken panes of glass Step Carefully I saw a woman She had lost her son Recently Her face was calm Some milk A loaf of bread under one arm I wanted to trail behind Protective Stupid I guess But if someone didn’t know […]
I heard mention of the marathon monks of Tendai in a book I was reading last week-end and made a mental note to look them up A few days later and that mental post it fluttered down Reading today about the running monks here and their do or die challenge made me realise how easy […]
I won’t faff about talking or I’ll forget how I just made this so: Ingredients: 1 cup oat flour 1/2 cup arrow root or cornflour (just need the lighter texture to balance out the oats) 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp Apple cider vinegar 1 tblsp Monk Fruit powder (natural sweetener that I just found […]
What’s your story? Mine changes When I was young I was the daughter of graziers – my story, my life – I was a bush child and so proud to be from the land I grew older And a wonderful man asked to marry me I must have said the word “fiancée” one hundred thousand […]
To hold it is to fly To drop it And keep flying Is to realise you could fly just fine, all along *you will have to know the Disney story of Dumbo to understand the theory of the magic feather. I always thought that confidence was something you gained and then you did things Now […]
There are these voices That live in my head I’m not mad We all have them there Listen to them How do they sound? Are they male Or female? Also Are they familiar? Mine are I have my Dad Among others Exasperated In fact most of my inner critics Are male – I hear them […]
She said that she was hanging by a thread Find yourself a tree I said Some dirt Sit awhile Close your eyes And listen for the song of the ants Lifting several times their body weight They come Plying bitten off leaves The seeds of grass and flowers Working together Their communities are powerful They […]
Explanation Is an erosion If it begins in defence An unravelling occurs Building momentum As it rolls Tearing strips from the soul Of any artist If it means to enlighten The words spill one over the other Over the other Not always going anywhere At All To the non verbal thinker And inward dweller Explanation […]
There’s a fog this morning Warm air bumping into cold The greater atmospherics Out of my control I simply woke into this day Running along Becoming gently soaked The next metre or so Barely discernible In ayurvedic medicine there is a correlation Between the conditions within And the conditions without I believe this And wonder […]
The eaten out field Toxic and poisoned Full of weeds The situation looks hopeless But to one who knows That weeds grow To heal the earth Hope… Is already alive And working *One of the teachings of permaculture – weeds grow where the soil needs healing. Times like these .. Perhaps the weeds of 2020 […]
