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Category Archives: Life journey
Three winged tales for the year end
I’m going to share a trio of stories from my last day of the year; things that happened quite organically, though there seems to be a distinct thread of bird-magic running through them. The first relates to a new artwork … Continue reading →
Posted in Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged birds, chronic pain, digital art process metaphor for life, emotions, experience filters, feeling too much, highly sensitive, metaphor, nervous system, owls, self understanding, taking off, understanding life
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A woman’s voice across time
I like to think I’ve swept some grace through these places over the years; doing what grace does best, mixing up the light and the dark so that the line between them becomes softened…perhaps even more radiant. I like to think that in getting closer to finding my wholeness here, against all odds, I’ve increased the odds for all things that I’ve brushed past on my wending way… Exploring the underlying perfection of the places we happen to be in, however those happen to seem. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Landscape art, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Symbolic journeys, Walks
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Tagged art, beauty, close to nature, connection to place, ecology, grace, inner work, loss of countryside, Mary Russell Mitford, mindfullness, our changing villages, our changing world, overpopulation, Painting, Spencers Wood, stuck points, Swallowfield, transformation, village life, wholeness
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The Sacredness of Life as purpose
If you happened upon this post, having often wondered what it was that made life so hard and even purposeless in your case when others seem to thrive, then know that it shouldn’t be the case…and that you are probably not that far off from flipping everything in your favour. The point is, first off, to realise that you are not “made” like everyone else and to recognise and honour those differences as the unused gifts that they probably are. You have a purpose but it may not look like anyone else’s purpose (though it is beneath the surface…yours is just wrapped up in slightly different priorities). Yours may sound a lot more abstract than theirs when you find it…but that’s not to say it can’t be put to practical use. The point is to identify that purpose (what has been the one thing that seems most important to you and which has driven you along, throughout all the various “projects” of your life, even “accidental” ones such as claiming your health back…) and then use that to fuel your own chosen trajectory. Yes, you can and will grow out of the dark places that may have become your home or your hide-y-hole for so long; but you need the right scaffolding to assist you to do that and, like all the best scaffolding, this needs to be supportive from within. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged difficulties being human, find your passion, finding life purpose, health, heart-based choices, how fo I contribute, integrating spirituality into life, lighting your fire, moon phase, motivation, odd-one-out, optimism, own your gifts, owning your skillset, phases of the moon, plant-based, positivity, sacredness of life, spirituality, Steven Forrest, uniqueness, vegan, waxing crescent, wholeness, why am I here?
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The joy of finding tribe
When you find “tribe” your relative uniqueness can flip from being a weakness to becoming your very power-point…that which unites you and makes you more determined to be the difference together. Deep familiarity sweeps you over for the fact that it is so typically absent when you are amongst other people…and suddenly you are all lit up, laughing at all the ironies that once floored you, ignited with enthusiasm, passion, innovation and determination whilst eagerly gobbling up all the resources you can pool together. Its a powerful thing and all the more so when its been absent from your life for so long you had all but convinced yourself you were destined to travel this road alone.
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Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Environment, Health & wellbeing, Holiday destinations, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Vegetarianism
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Tagged coming out of the solitary life, community, enthusiasm transforms the world, family, finding your tribe, I Pini, like-mindedness, passion for life, power of collaboration, shared passions, shared values, Tuscany, vegan
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Memories from the stones
Sometimes its as though the stones of a place speak to us; sometimes its a feeling of a place that takes us back in time…reminding us of something important, like a memo to ourselves. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Art, Art history, Art transformation tool, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, History, Holiday destinations, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Vegetarianism
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Tagged ancient civilizations, DH Lawrence, etruscans, Italy, Life Bistro, matriarchy, memories, messages across time, out of sync with the times, past lives, Travel, vegan, Volterra
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Leave what you know…
Set sail from the shore. “Paint” in life what you feel from your depths, not your intellect. This will flutter and shape-shift; you’ll never catch up…but oh the journey, the heights, the joy. Scared? Oh yes. Feel that too.
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged becoming, courage, flow, letting go, life, overcoming fear
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We are the keystone of the bridge
Too often, the well-meaning desire for wholeness resorts to force or self-claimed authority to try to make this union happen; and its left uncomfortable, raw, impermanent and ready to blow-up at again at the slightest pressure. When we craft a version of wholeness as an extension of ourselves, in the way of any true project of the heart, the in-built incentive is already there to remain whole because it feels so good; since it comes straight from our divinity. We are remembering who we really are, outside the arena of halves that is the earth plane, and it feels…well…divine! Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged accountability, apex, balance, being human, being whole, bridge, bringing it all together, capstone, divinity in human form, equilibrium, from the heart, healing, keystone, life-force, masculine and feminine, projects, vagus nerve, wholeness
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Taking off those lead boots
Every moment you spend raking over the old paradigm is another moment spent in there. Check in with yourself, where are you still doing this? Its like wearing lead boots! ***
Being unlimited
…our next best-answer might lie in the very opposite “thing” to what we believed-in most ardently just a short moment ago…or the thing that was standing side-by-side with “our truth” yet which we didn’t notice since our gaze was so fixed… Continue reading →
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Tagged awareness, Consciousness, evolution, limitlessness, Personal Development, spiritual
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Little wren
All kinds of realities can look as real as anything as we proceed through our human existence; we are all surrounded by them, every day, but when we keep hurting ourselves because of them, we can be sure they are a fiction of some kind…perhaps one that is so long-running that we don’t even remember anything different. They can be as convincing as anything we have ever seen, made all the more potent through the tug of nostalgia and familiarity. When they are a false reality in our experience, and they suddenly dissolve, we don’t go to pieces with that circumstance but, rather, that dissolution is what it takes to end the repeat cycles of self-destruction….perhaps even those repeated across many lifetimes. We stop hurling ourselves and hurtling mindlessly towards things that don’t serve us, in search of what we have fixated upon as “what we need to perpetuate in order to survive”. As is sometimes the case before illusory worlds fall apart (as we are seeing happen right now in our world-politics…), the illusory reality sometimes has to be stepped up to become even more overtly unnatural than ever, in order for us to “get it” and move on. Such a moment is what proceeds the moment of realisation…when we, as it were, wake up to what is real and swiftly find our way back to ourselves.
This tale of extreme optimism was “told” to me by a little wren just the other day… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged awakening, Consciousness, ending the illusion, light, optimism, reality, totem, wren
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