Can I be honest with you? Right now, the word happy makes me cringe. There’s something about it that feels, well, trivial. A bit like the rote interchange, “how are you?” followed by “good, thanks.” Inauthentic, un-genuine and repetitive. And at the moment there’s no escaping it: happy wishes are Read more…
It does, you know. Gratitude, I mean. It’s so, so much more than seeing the positive in everything. It’s learning to look at life with a new mindset. To grow in your awareness of the present moment of the simple things.To notice and embrace the little things.To acknowledge the hard Read more…
It’s brave, you know.To acknowledge heartache,and then dance, anyway. It’s a way to embrace the joy and the tears.A beacon of hope for the hurting.An act of thankfulness.A soulful release.A metaphor.Brave.
November brings Spring and the promise of new life here in New Zealand… and every year, I’m surprised by the ever changing variety of weather. Yet between the pendulum swing of happy, sunny gloriously blue-skied days, and the chilly ones that find us curling up by the nearest heater (or Read more…
It’s so often a pathway to new beginnings. Demolition, I mean. This week, we smashed a wall. Literally! We gathered our kids together for this momentous family occasion, and gave them each a turn with a hammer. Not your usual weekend activity, but oh so much fun!! Why, you ask? Read more…