Call me a ‘Pollyanna ’ but I find myself saying yes to a lot of what is happening. Of course … More
Category: relaxing in nature
Wendell Berry Poem
“When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what … More
Returning to the Seat of Self
Whew, I got lost there for a couple of days in angst, bargaining with reality and rumination. My mind couldn’t … More
Surrender Experiment Day 11
Now firmly in the swing of surrendering when the annoyance from hearing banging and creaking upstairs appears. I notice occasionally … More
Sitting with Successes
And after the initial feeling of the win, now sitting less than comfortably. I was going to wait till I’d … More
Gratitude
Tempering the mind’s tendency to look for problems here at the moment. Regular gratitude check-ins help to ground me in … More
Caterpillars
They have been a source of joy recently, on discovering huge amounts of Peacock butterfly caterpillars on a nettle patch … More
Covid Introversion Pressure Cooker
This isolation. The deaths. It’s a shock. Many of us are in shock from what I can see. Life has … More
Diary entry on boredom
A friend says ‘if you have two arms and two legs you have no right to be bored’. I get … More
