We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. MARCEL PROUST
I know it went dark here for several months, and for much of that I was just in survival mode, doing what needs to be done. But also, I was doing this deep dive of reading, listening, learning, reflecting and being frustrated. Below is the first effort at gathering thoughts and surfacing some...well, they're not … Continue reading On Creating Community
Image from Pixabay It's been a while. And the Gifts of Imperfection (guide to a wholehearted life) has been in a box for the last few weeks, but in the meantime, another book arrived - The Wisdom of Your Body - which I'm excited to explore at the same time. I think there will be … Continue reading Imperfect embodiment
Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash Hello Friends! Well, it's been a long, long lockdown and to help us transition into life with covid - since it looks like we can't banish it from our shores this time - I thought it might be good to start our return to gathering with some stories. Yesterday, … Continue reading A Time to Trust
Photo by Courtney Kenady on Unsplash So, life has been on hold for us in Auckland as we race to get vaccinated and live in our separate bubbles to stay safe from the Delta variant of covid. And the BB bookclub is on hold too, because there are some good conversations to be had over … Continue reading meditations for the heart
The Resources I mentioned in our conversation last week that I had been listening to Brene Brown's "sister strong summer series" where Brene and her twin sisters discuss and reflect together on the book The Gifts of Imperfection. We'll join in for a bit and see where it goes. I read this book some time … Continue reading B-B Bookclub
Photo by Malcolm Garret from Pexels The Resources The Parenting Place offers a set of parenting tool box courses aimed at helping parents recognise the communication tools they learned in their family of origin and then introducing some (probably) new tools to learn and develop. I trained as a tool box facilitator several years ago, and always felt … Continue reading Love and Accountability
Image by Brian Garrity from Pixabay The Resources We are nearly at the midpoint of the solar year, and as the evenings deepen and lengthen it seems a perfect opportunity to gather around a fire and tell stories. And eat heartily and drink wine, obviously. Most of us love stories. Most of us heard stories … Continue reading Solstice stories
The Resources In my literary wanderings this week I picked up Walk Humbly by Samuel Wells, which is a book that is designed for dipping into and savouring rather than reading from start to finish. I then flipped it open at the chapter titled Be One Body The opening sentences gave me pause: Imagine being … Continue reading On Oneness
The resources I've been slowly reading The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski, a book that looks at what death can teach us about living fully, and this week I blazed through Harriet Lerner's the Dance of Intimacy, a book that looks at how to change patterns of relating that keep us stuck in a dance … Continue reading On the way to intimacy
Photo by Tania Melnyczuk on Unsplash The Resources This past weekend I was in beautiful Hanmer Springs with an excellent group of people exploring together the possibilities for many different ways to embody and live the journey of life with faith, hope and love. There were many wise insights offered from what had been learned … Continue reading An environmental approach
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