Looking out from my desk at work through the long gallery of windows that line my side office – I find myself watching the wind catch the tops of the tree branches and how they exalt in the wind’s embrace. And it stirs my soul: deep and powerful. It’s the call of the…
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Reading Matters: Just Kids Patti Smith
Just Kids – Patti Smith “When you hit a wall, just kick it in” O Patti – you are the opposite of me and the sum total of who I could have been had I but dared to venture. Watching you live your life with passion and intent, tracking the path it takes you –…
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant” Joan Didion This book “A Life of My Own” is a class act written by a very classy lady who has lead an extraordinary life built on the very ordinariness of life and I loved it. Slightly dull in the beginning with some early scene setting, the…
5 Books to Read in September
Book Stack time and yes, I did jump the gun a little by reading 99 Stories of God in August but I couldn’t wait and as I wrote last week, it proved to be the perfect holiday read – it just tickles me, see below. Ha! And its all like that – short , pithy,…
One for the Summer Sun
99 Stories of God This book is a collection of exquisite, tiny masterpieces and is perfect for holiday reading. I loved it. Hard to define, the book is a collection of vignettes- every day life moments – at times darkly ironic at times deeply familiar – exploring our pre-occupation with and relationship to God but in the most…
Adoption and the Fish Ladder
My sometime favourite piece of advice in life reads something like: “This Life is a journey – you will take two steps forward and one step back – what ever you do , don’t give up or rather – I have handled everything that has come my way so far and I will handle this…
Reading Matters: May
Two contrasting books this month – “Bloom” by Bronnie Ware and “the Rules do Not Apply” by Ariel Levy “Bloom” by Bronnie Ware “Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness” Those who follow this blog know of my intense interest in life, what makes a life,…
Reading Matters: April
“I love you. I’m glad I exist.” I came to Amy’s party late and almost missed the boat. Amy died in March this year. Her recent prominence eminating from among other things, an exquisite love letter extolling the virtues of her husband, Jason and why he must be dated following her imminent death from…
Reading Matters: Reasons to be Cheerful Parts 1,2 and 3
So, do I write from the heart or do I follow the crowd and endorse this? First, you should know I write from the heart always. Second the quote in the side panel is great writing – better than that – it gives me another piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is my life (up…
Reading Matters: Warming the Stone Child
“Whenever there is adoption, there is its corollary, abandonment” Meredith Resnick, Psychology Today This sound book ( I can find no written word copy) is extraordinarily powerful for those of us ready to listen. Depth When we drop a small pebble into the river, the smooth, unspectacular surface penetrates down, down, down beneath the surface…
Reading Matters: Ask Polly
(In which the writer finally sees the importance of kindness in this “fucked up stupid world”, talks to Heather Havrilevsky through her advice column, Ask Polly and remembers an eventful week in France). Kindness My adoptive parents were extraordinarily kind. I am crying writing this because it has taken me so long to accept this…
Reading Matters: Sacred Journeys in a Modern World
(In which the writer takes a series of sacred journeys walking side by side with with Roger Housden while never once moving from her office desk – what a week I’ve had :)) Sacred Journeys, songlines: these are a recurring theme in my life. The desire to connect, intersect, to deeply belong is the strongest…
The Universe Project 