So here we are again. The final hours of one year and the dawn of the next. For me a launch into an unknown future laden with possibility and choice, the realm of which is profoundly exciting and necessary. A recent article by Mastin Kipp, reaffirmed something I know that I know: When we remember…
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Singaportrayal
Travel asks how much we’re willing to surrender to the unknown. It is as Pico Iyer suggests, an exercise in trust as we pitch ourselves, naked and undefended, into a foreign place. It satiates our curiosity to know something more about a place and to go deeper inside ourselves without the encircling familiarity of home….
A Shoe in the Washer
Ever found a hair in your soup? Nothing wrong with the hair, it’s just in the wrong place. “Everything is good in its right place and right relationship,” says Satish Kumar, “nothing is bad.” So it would follow that shoes on your feet are good, but in a washer…? It might look something life this:…
La Buena Vida
When in doubt about where you are meant to be, look down at your feet- Buddhist saying – Llucalcari, a one-street village nestled along Mallorca’s spectacular west coast is my new ‘meant to be’ place. A village that warrants a name on a Google map but not on a road sign. Blink and you miss…
Mars Bar Meditation
Assumption: You like to eat Mars Bars Yesterday I bought a Mars Bar. I left it on the kitchen counter. It was gone within 24 hours. Each time I swung inside the kitchen I saw it there, waiting. A joyful image. Last night, at the witching hour, I devoured it. A swift gluttonous act, the…
Drivers Wanted?
What’s your driving style? If you’re the Grand Prix type then add Mallorca to your list of travel destinations. For the faint of heart, this is not. Travel guidebook warnings are prolific and weighty, …57 hairpin bends – the most terrifying in Mallorca, …need nerves of steel, …boasts 270 degree loops and other harrowing features,…
EZT 2046 Zurich to London Row 11
Meet Mike, 54, piano maker. Married. Two kids. Loves his wife. “She’s a good woman,” he repeats countlessly, as if willing himself to believe. Cassie, 31, SWF, has embarked on a new business venture managing chalets in Zermatt. “Get a group of five people, do all the planning and you can stay for free,” she…
This One Day
What if you died tomorrow? A shocking question possibly, but very important nonetheless. For the young and healthy it may even seem irrelevant, very likely abhorrent. But really, what if you died tomorrow? What would die with you? What words? What blessings? What gratitudes you never got round to sharing with the ones you treasure…
The Call of the Croissant
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ~ Rumi ~ Does food count? It’s one of the things I really love. On occasion it does, however lead me astray. The twice-baked chocolate almond croissants from Bakery Nouveau left me way off course. …
Confessions of a House Sitter
To procure a new tenant with some certainty, my landlord asked that I vacate my luxury pad at the end of July. I complied. Homeless, I considered a stint as house sitter. An opportunity to gauge my readiness for change in the months ahead. Contemplating life without my familiar kitchen gadgets, cookbooks, choice condiments…