Tag: spirituality
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The Power of Attention: Shaping Our Thoughts
Somewhere along the line in my grown-up life, I developed a sense of hopelessness about humans. But I’ve realised I’m caught in a negativity bias, and that good and wonderful things abound, if only I’m mindful to attend to them.
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Embracing Life’s Meaning: Choosing lychee martinis and love and everything in between.
We’re of an age where we start to wonder “what’s it all about”. Joyfully, the answer is “whatever you want it to be.” And also lychee martinis.
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The Rituals of our Remembering
In the shadow of Autumn In the season that invites retreat With red leaves shed like tears To pool beneath The ages old arms Of ages old trees We light a candle We light a candle for you Who loved the flickering promise That dances in the flame’s orange-blue heart We light a…
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The Roads we Travel
This is the road The yellow brick road The highway road The speedy road The road down which we run Towards the mirage of some future self The self we would become This is the road The barren road The straight and narrow road The road that leads us on To the walled city…
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Then I breathe
When anxiety comes upon me Like a fluttering little bird Wings beating against the cage of my chest Then I breathe I breathe the calming breath of nature’s forever connection From the stars that birth the building blocks of us To the leaves that sway in the breeze I breathe into the…
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On death done well.
I reflect on my dad, as always, as we approach the anniversary of his death. How is it seven years have passed already? I had to look it up. It seems impossible, but time is relentless. It moves us away from things and blurs them in our memory. I have the sense of him often…
Midlife Unpacked 