Learning, what and how

We learn all the time, that’s for sure. We don’t have to go to school to learn, but when we go to school we learn there too. What is it that we learn? That is the question, an important one, the only one that really matters. What do we learn? Once that question is discovered,…

Love is not a fairy tale, it is a myth

Love is whatever we make of it. We get to define it. We have to decide it, define it, imagine it, create it, live it. If we don’t do these things, love will not exist. This is something I’ve written that kind of explains, to myself, my own perplexing journey in search of romantic love….

Blissful surrender

We can try to make sense of our own path in life from many different perspectives. We are complex beings who live complex lives interwoven with each other’s and the other life forms all around us. Who can understand or make sense of it all? I think it is a worthwhile pursuit for each and…

Disillusion

I’ve been here silent all these years emotions and thoughts imprisoned in fear locked up with keys of guilt and shame so my heart was grey with grief so much to say to share no voice no confidence So I mostly existed disconnected dull defeated but refused to be blinded to the divinity that dwells…

Earth

Not all of us run, but many of us do. Does it mean anything? It probably means many things. I will share a bit of what goes through my head during those long miles of solitary  (but only from a particular viewpoint) marathon training. Footfall, heartbeat breath and earth footfall, heartbeat death and birth Footfall…

Kindness

ALWAYS Remember The power of Kindness To anyone Anywhere Anytime Anyplace BE KIND   Here is just a little thought for the day, for life, for each moment, for the hard choices when emotions rise high and tempers want to let words and objects fly! It can be hard sometimes… but it is always the…

Essential beauty

Beauty is no luxury It’s an absolute necessity for a healthy soul like breath and water for the life of the body The presence of beauty is not enough it’s all around the sky the stars the sun the moon the birds, flowers, trees sound of wind and waves even people, broken humanity It has…

A trip to the loo

This is just a bit of lightheartedness as I look back on the start of a new chapter in my running journey. It is the event that made me a marathon runner.  Signs and wonders messages from above or within how would I navigate without at least a signpost now and then Voices of vicars…