Fjara
With nothing between me and the wind, my skin rippled in the cold, tiny hairs standing on end defiant and in shock. In this place, there...
Meditation 12 - You need to rest (or 'the red shoes revisited')
In her iconic book Women Who Run With the Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estés explores the fairy tale of the Red Shoes, originally told by...
Meditation 10 - The people you love are mortal
Last night I started writing a Facebook status update about how I would not be on Facebook scrolling down my newsfeed endlessly or...
Grandmother Spider
I came home late one afternoon following an unrivalled day at the office. It had been one of those days during which every conceivable...
Meditation 9 - You are worthy
As I sit here about to write this section, I’ve been looking at my chipped blue nail polish and thinking that I need to do something...
Meditation 8 - Invest in experiences, not things
When I visit my Granny at the retirement village where she lives, I’m always curious about the items that traveled with her from the home...
Meditation 7 - When it comes to possessions, less is more
In my novel Letters to the Black Underground, society revolves sycophantically around consumption, which is undertaken as a compulsive...
Meditation 6 - Stop and consider what will be ‘enough’
Now that we have explored my approach to dressing, something of the psychology of the person upon whom the backpacking trip was inflicted...
Meditation 4 - You really are what you eat
The irony is that I am just now munching on some delicious wafer rolls with hazelnut and cocoa cream. They were next to my bed and seemed...
Meditation 3 - If you are cognisant of small purchases, wealth accumulates. If you see small purchas
My most enlightened act of the last year was to cancel my credit card. I funneled all my modest savings into my education in the hope...
