The time has come for me to press pause on the blog and take some time out to recharge my creative batteries.
Category: Quotes
Musings & Meditations – June 17 2021
Leave your heart to wander…
Musings & Meditations – June 3 2021
The treasure I was being directed to
Musings & Meditations – May 27 2021
An ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
Musings & Meditations – May 20 2021
It sometimes feels like we have nothing left to give, and yet…
Musings & Meditations – May 12 2021
May 12th is International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND) so here are a few words today in honour of the Lady with the Lamp.
Musings & Meditations – May 6 2021
… and am free.
Musings & Meditations – April 29 2021
The bravest thing.
Musings & Meditations – April 22 2021
This, too, was a gift.
Musings & Meditations – April 15 2021
To clear your path.
Musings & Meditations – April 8 2021
What remains? Nature.
Musings & Meditations – April 1 2021
The greatest thing we can do.
Musings & Meditations – March 25 2021
… Isn’t it splendid?!
Musings & Meditations – March 18 2021
It may just help.
Musings & Meditations – March 11 2021
Guard well your spare moments…
Musings & Meditations – March 4 2021
This is the time to be slow
Musings & Meditations – February 25 2021
Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day
Musings & Meditations – February 18 2021
Do not be afraid of your difficulties.
Musings & Meditations – February 11 2021
Not the flower.
Book Therapy – The Boy, The Mole, The Fox & The Horse
Let me introduce you to the beautiful human that is Charlie Mackesy and his incredibly empathetic book, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox & The Horse. If there was ever a time when we needed Charlie Mackesy’s drawings, it would be over the last year.
Musings & Meditations – February 4 2021
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone.
Musings & Meditations – January 28 2021
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places.
Musings & Meditations – January 14 2021
Why, who makes much of a miracle?
Musings & Meditations – January 7 2021
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language.
Musings & Meditations – December 31 2020
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.
Musings & Meditations – December 24 2020
Depends on our dispositions
Musings & Meditations – December 17 2020
I wish none of this had happened.
Musings & Meditations – December 10 2020
Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful.
Musings & Meditations – December 3 2020
When I am among the trees
Musings & Meditations – November 26 2020
This is the power of gathering:
Musings & Meditations – November 19 2020
Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage.
Musings & Meditations – November 12 2020
Hope is like the sun.
Musings & Meditations – November 5 2020
A ‘human’ thing.
Musings & Meditations – October 29 2020
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin
Musings & Meditations – October 22 2020
You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. – Chinese Proverb
Musings & Meditations – October 15 2020
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis’. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger – but recognise the opportunity. – John F. Kennedy
Musings & Meditations – October 8, 2020
In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you. – Andrea Dykstra
Book Therapy – The Poetry Pharmacy + The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
I would love to introduce you to The Poetry Pharmacy. If you are a poetry beginner, or a literary lover, I am certain that you will find joy and comfort within these pages.
Meditations & Musings – October 1, 2020
The secret is to never lose sight of the simple, everyday miracles in life;good food, literature, laughter, music, compelling conversation, nature, and art. Look for them in every day,and even when it feelslike your whole world is unravelling,you will never be too farfrom a needle and thread. – Beau Taplin • N e e d…
Musings & Meditations – September 24, 2020
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us…
Musings & Meditations – September 17 2020
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. ― Linda Hogan
Musings & Meditations – September 10 2020
I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore. – Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Musings & Meditations – September 3 2020
Look for the ones who lean into your story. The ones who don’t shrink back from your pain. The ones who hear what you are not saying. These, are your people. Love them fiercely. -Liezel Graham
Meditations & Musings – August 20 2020
Dedicated to Australia’s Golden Girl of love & light.
Musings & Meditations – August 13 2020
“Rise and shine. I’ve always held such fondness for that sweet old phrase. As though we are all little Suns. As though we are all someone’s day.” – Beau Taplin // R i s e A n d S h i n e
Musings & Meditations – August 6 2020
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. – Frida Kahlo
Musings & Meditations – July 30 2020
Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Dolly Parton
Musings & Meditations – July 23 2020
People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help. – Glennon Doyle
Musings & Meditations – July 16 2020
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt,…
