Being human
and life's little mysteries

I have a 77 year old liver; the rest of my body is 51. This mismatch of age between a vital organ and the rest of my body does not rest...

March, 2020. By the time Covid broke out, I had stopped commuting into London on a weekly basis for work. After four months, it had...

Gurur Brahmā Gurur Viṣṇur Gurur devo Maheśvaraḥ Guruḥ sākṣāt paraṁ Brahma tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ Our creation is that guru (Brahma-the...

Sometimes life seems to be utter chaos. But everwhere you look, there are patterns. Patterns in the weather, patterns in leaf and tree...

Today I’m feeling grateful to have an intelligent body. A body that remembers. A body that carries my unique imprint of experiences; a...

Many of you know me to be a practitioner of yoga and veganism, which I have subscribed to at two distinct points of my life: as a late...

So many metaphors about life. A landscaped journey; making lemonade from lemons; cyclical like the seasons; a recipe for disaster; like a...

It’s been said that the health of the spine reveals the health of a whole system. Afterall, the spine is a superhighway to the life force...

As 2021 approaches, we have yet another moment of looking through a portal – a point between A and B that feels, sometimes, like no man’s...

The funny things I remember about Mrs. Honan are how she held the chalkboard eraser (it dangled from her hand and often fell to the...

Morning view from kitchen. As The leaves have fallen off this statuesque beech tree, so too I’ve been going through my own state of...

Back to the Future I recently was in Dartmoor, the home to several Bronze Age ruins. Grimspound is the best preserved stone circular...

For many people, the past 6 months have felt chaotic, stagnant, a waiting game, rapidly changing…life has felt uncertain. Some have used...

Lessons learned from the Coastal Path : a summer update Hiking, or rambling as they call it here in England, has always been a favourite...

When we’re born, we don’t realise that we are setting out on what will be an unknown, epic journey.  A life unfolds over a long time, and...

Dear Diary : July Edition (lockdown day 112) July is a month known for independence….of the American people from the British monarchy in...

Isolation Day 84. Dear Diary, Another month has been marked off the calendar; a month where after many weeks of hunkering down and...

self isolation, day 32 Dear Diary, I’m sorry I haven’t written. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to, haven’t had monologues in my mind...

Self Isolation, Day 19 Dear Diary, As humans, we seem to be in unfamiliar territory. Yes, there have been famines and wars, but those...

Self-isolation day 07 This is an invitation, a calling out to all your Hive-Minded Yogis and friends who are working on an inspiring...