by admin | Jun 8, 2022 | Poems for Carers
In water, the body and soul take on other properties. Morphing, moving differently, belonging to no one, having everything belong to you. If only for brief transitory periods of time. But if you can find enough of those times, of being nobody, just a tiny moving...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
I watched recently how an artist creates a painting. All that was there at first was the faintest of sketches, on a blank canvas. Our biographies are a bit like this. The first lines drawn, the first markers of what makes up a life. But then the layers come. Great...
by admin | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
When facing forward we can trust two things: that the earth will be there to catch us whenever it is we dare to take our next step; and that the road will continue to wind out of sight, until some day we will each return our borrowed stardust to the universe. I took...
by admin | Mar 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
The tag on the shower puff read ‘This product is made from natural materials, imperfections may show with use’. Well indeed. Exactly that. From time to time we could all do with that label on. Reminding others, reminding ourselves. Remembering this is true...
by admin | Mar 18, 2022 | Poems for Healing
‘Ruins are not empty. They are sacred places full of presence'(John O’Donahue: Anam Cara). If we look we can see ruins everywhere. We see what is being brought to ruin right now. Impending ruin collects again. Adding to the ruins of our past. Rubble piling...