To take the shattered pieces Of my ever thinking mind Torn fragments of a thought that travels Unravelling back to the beginning And then beginning again An echo in a chamber full of echos Reverberating restlessly. To quiet the inner ear To block the outer that hears And sink into stillness That knows no fear […]
In meditation We learn compassion Patience We learn to sit Commit No matter what thoughts cross our mind Back and forth Jumping in We let them do what thinking is Because that is the brain and how it acts Nobody would tell a heart to stop beating So we can’t stop thinking thoughts Only We […]
I have just spent the week-end walking And walking And walking And a little bit of swimming in rock pools It is my husbands idea of hell So he didn’t come Which is great because it gave me a whole heap of headspace Which I filled up in my usual way Though I did try […]
I can’t believe Issue No4 has just been published, and yet it has.  Another great round of characters Artist and so much more, Susie Klein shares her joy of creativity, what an amazing gift she is to have in our community with the counselling and support she offers young disadvantaged youth Artist Chris Postle […]
We are layers upon layers of desire Little desires Cake Wine Clothes Big desires New home New Car You name it There are always a thousand false desires that mask The true desires That wait Agonisingly Longingly Deeply Below the surface of all that churning that breeds contagion of more more more And when you […]
My animal Consists of body And amygdala Together They control many things If I don’t tune in Reactionary And quick to panic The animal can be soothed when it is allowed to breathe Move Slowly And treated with care and gentle loving awareness *i think it was listening to Leonard (Cohen) that had me thinking […]
If you had told me a few years ago that I would be eating pizza with avocado on it I would have laughed Now I’m an addict I eat variations of this pizza once a week Ingredients: Pizza base Tomato paste Mushrooms Baby spinach Roast pumpkin Red onion (missing from the video but it was […]
A friend of mine gave me a beautiful home grown Cos lettuce I made Steve chicken Ceaser salad and I had this: Dressing 2 tblsp Veganaise 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp onion powder 1/4 tsp smoked paprika 6 or 7 capers 1 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp caper juice (from bottles capers) Salad: Cos […]
I bought some wickedly good Vegan friendly spreads yesterday They were so good and so decadent that I wanted to create a recipe that was at least half way healthy so I could indulge without a massive dose of guilt So – I just added a few healthy ingredients but don’t kid yourself – these […]
Black salt isn’t black – it’s red and it hales from India – it has a beautiful sulphuric taste – use it in this and you get eggs that taste so real that you would fool a chook If they are eggs – which they don’t so..poor analogy…moving on; Black salt is one of those […]
