Being human
and life's little mysteries

So, this morning while taking my son to school I had a sort of unbelievable realisation. I’m half Lithuanian! Growing up as American, my...

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...

Ever notice how affected you are by external conditions? There's a favourite topic of this country, the weather, but there are other...

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

Not long after my son’s birth, I left the studio that had been both my ‘spiritual home’ and a place of toxicity and dysfunction. I began...

This is…. My new best friend. It’s my second visit to A+E in less than a week. Based on this, and a handful of other recent visits to...

Think of a tree or any plant or animal. The soft spot is where the growth happens. In nature, growth always happens at the soft spot. 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 we enter the month of February, the transition from one state into another unfolds before our very eyes. Even as snow falls in some...

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...