On a break from work and still hurting from the arguments, I wandered lost into a used bookshop behind the Grove. Running my fingers along the brightly coloured spines of each book, I let my finger tips guide me to my next purchase. They caught on the cover of a beautiful, fat paperback – airport…
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Mapping the Way Home
Mapping the Way Home: the Sufis and the Three Stages of Spiritual Awakening Food, body image and self-acceptance have run like a royal road right through my life. Food is and was my safety, my comfort and my security, my north star through a difficult childhood adoption spent in fear of abandonment and fear of…
The Mid Summer Fire
June contains a great turning pointing in the year as the sun reaches its highest point in the sky, pauses there for a moment on June 21st and then begins the descent back towards Autumn and Winter. The date was marked by our farming ancestors as a date to remember that all would turn again…
Reading Matters: You, A Bike and A Road by Eleanor Davis
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…
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: January
Overview Living, dying, birds, art, life: beautiful prose-poem short stories from Lydia Davis and American history; January reading has been a good clear start – eclectic, rich and satisfying. Birds, Art, Life by Kyo Maclear This is a book of small things and shares a year of observations. The book’s small blocks of writing have…
The Universe Project 