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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama XIV Today I have a question for you: Is it better to be wise or to be kind? Careful now. This is a tricky one. On the one hand you could argue that it is never “wrong” to be kind, but i...

Every time you judge someone you reveal a part of yourself that needs healing – Letters of Gratitude We are now a year and a half into the pandemic and it’s time to rip the Band-Aid off a subject that I have been avoiding writing about. Last wee...

What is it to take a picture? Often, it is an attempt to capture a memory, an important moment, or perhaps, just something fun. More often these days it is to freeze in time a vision of ourselves, as we like to see us, and to share that image with ...

Keep your head above water. Turn your face to the sun. Chin up. To a naturally positive person the meaning of each of these statements seems so obvious they will be wondering why I am even bothering to write about this. But that’s not the case for ev...

As we navigate yet another week of upheaval in our new normal, the question I have been asking myself is what am I learning that is new about managing fear? This has been on my mind because, thanks to the pandemic, people everywhere appear to be livi...

Yesterday, I rang the bell of our front door. My husband Bill opened it and looked down at my feet. He jumped aside as I rolled a big watermelon with my toes into our living room. Bill’s face was the picture of surprise. I couldn't stop laughing. “Y...

“Life is not waiting for the storm to pass it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Vivian Greene As I’m sitting here writing this in my home office at the edge of the earth where the sea meets the sky, it is pounding down with rain for the first t...

In recent articles I have alluded to the fact that the pandemic has opened a door to allow people and business organisations to partner and collaborate in new ways. What exactly does that mean and how can you position yourself to capitalise on these...

“The value of vision is insight.” Unknown This week’s exercise in thinking begins with a simple question: if I asked you to explain a microwave to a caveman where would you begin? On the surface this task seems easy enough in that a microwave is a fa...

I drifted off to sleep one night a couple of weeks ago while looking at a YouTube home screen populated with a selection of videos from the art, travel and cooking channels that I subscribe to. The next morning, I woke up to a barrage of screaming c...

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – Mark Twain One year ago, we were locked down in Bali. We were living in a small house at a silent hotel right on th...

This morning I found myself thinking about the spectacular novel by Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. The title might have you think it is about life after death, but it is actually so much more. The Five People You Meet in Heaven ...