Category: writing for knowing
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Forest bathing
A few kind humans spent last Saturday morning forest bathing, guided by the gentle Arya Padey. Most of us were looking to slow down, connect with nature (out and within) and for an embodied experience. As I was trying to collect my reflections, rocked by the soothing sway of the train taking me home on Read more
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The Awakened Brain
I’m trying out a new thing – a sort of written highlights of great books currently on my mind – to help: This learning highlight is about the wonderful work of Dr Lisa Miller (LM) – professor in the Clinical psychology program at Teachers college, Columbia university, founder and director of the Spirituality mind body Read more
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Integrity and integration
I spent the summer with great minds and this is what is now emerging. The Way of Integrity I was re-reading The Way of Integrity from Martha Beck – which I highly recommend reading if you haven’t yet – and I was laughing at how much this book had, without me consciously knowing it, been Read more
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Parts of Me
“Consciousness emerges from the integration of the parts” ‘Me’-etings Last year, I wrote a book called The Writer’s Dilemma, which I am now in the process of publishing. The book is a colourful invitation into the intimate dialogues of a climate human, Joy Bark, about why she should not be writing. Fresh, spicy and warm, Read more
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Where is the edge of me?
“Where is the edge of me?“: Nora Bateson’s provocative yet elusive words are often on my mind. They felt particularly alive lately when I was reflecting on what I/we know and how I/we know it in preparation for RM’s first learning summit. Why? What were these words waking up as I was attempting to unpack Read more
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In service to life
Something beautiful is unfolding… That was the strong gut feeling I sensed as I was enjoying reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. What a treat this book is. An incredibly rich coming together of ideas, words and stories giving texture and grounding to concepts that often live separate lives. Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Read more
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Rivering
Following the edge of your river Following the edge of your river takes you to your knowing the edge becomes blurrier the edge becomes the river no edge you are the river following your inner river You find the edge of your understanding yet your knowing has no edge the edge only exists in your Read more
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Zen and the art of saving the planet
At the end of 2024, I undertook the Zen and the art of saving the planet course by Plum Village, rooted in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings. It served as a great companion as I navigated and transformed through challenging times. A couple of months later, conscious of my own memory limits and knowing that one of Read more
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Perspective
Impressions Images pressing on us Unions of thoughts and feelings A fingerprint of our imagination Permanent print or invisible ink What is the impression made on or made of? Letters forming words in mind then paper or keyboard Bodily feelings in the other’s presence Solid as cliffs Impermanent waves crashing against the rocks Permeable as Read more
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Light or wrong
Twinkle little light Why do you feel so tired, little one? You are not doing much Yet you feel there is rest you need to catch-up on Your body whispers in your ears “Rest, little one, even lights can’t shine all the time A little darkness does them good If there wasn’t darkness They could Read more