Love and Light – though not in a corny way
September 8, 2024 No CommentsImages coaxed out of DALL.E 31 August 2024 Sometimes – (quite often, actually) – my blog post writing comes about because of a specific, one-off experience. A major – or minor – thing happens, and I write about it. It could be a dream or nightmare, a conversation I have just had with someone, and […]
Read MoreLiving and Embracing Paradoxes & Polarities
September 8, 2024 No CommentsAll images generated with a lot of coaxing of DALL.E 20 August 2024 And so on to my second LSD trip. This was in early April this year, just a few weeks after my first experience, and I had been invited (“because we like you!”) to join a very small group of psychedelics facilitators and […]
Read MoreLoss, Separation, Despair
September 8, 2024 1 Comment16th August 2024 Images generated by DALL.E except where indicated Five months ago, in mid-March 2024, I had my first LSD experience. Yup. Really. Out of respect for the medicine, I like to write out, at least once, the full name: Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. Okay – LSD from now on. LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic […]
Read MoreErm, he’s not my husband
September 8, 2024 6 CommentsPhoto my own – taken this afternoon, Lin, Lake Ohrid, Albania 12 August 2024 Earlier this afternoon, while I was sitting on this “garden sofa” with my laptop, on this absolutely gorgeous terrace at a B&B in Lin on Lake Ohrid, Albania, a fellow resident smiled at me and said, “Your husband is a really […]
Read MoreCompassion Without Borders / Dhembshuri Pa Kufi
September 8, 2024 No CommentsPhotos my own, taken in Berat on 2nd and 3rd August in Berat, Albania. 4th August 2024 Following our Peaks of the Balkans hike (a 10+ day walk around the high mountain borders of Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro), Medjool and I are now enjoying being “conventional tourists” – visiting and delighting in the historic, cultural […]
Read MoreInterference
September 8, 2024 1 CommentMain image by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash 15 July 2024 Today, 15th July, is huge. One of those mega dates, loaded with meaning. Forever huge. For ever. 15th July 2017 we had Mike’s Celebration of Life. Three months after his death, still in shock (such vital protection) I was very numb. I remember where it […]
Read MoreReasons Not To, & Reasons To
September 8, 2024 1 CommentMain photo by Joshua Fuller on Unsplash. Other photo my own. 7 July 2024 I am sitting in bed in a hotel in Verbier, Switzerland, when “normalement” I “should” be “walking swiftly” up a great big mountain as part of a mountain trail run. But literally an hour ago, I decided I would not start. […]
Read MoreIt’s Not An Easy Story To Hear
September 8, 2024 3 Comments23 June 2024 Photos our own – from 2008 when Julia was four. I was in my kitchen at home, and a young man was stood on a chair, reaching up above the cupboards, presumably to fix something. One of the lightbulbs is forever blowing – it’s true. I didn’t know the young man, but […]
Read MoreTears in Montpellier Railway Station
September 8, 2024 2 Comments16 June 2024 Photo by Andrik Langfield on Unsplash I am in Montpellier St Roch railway station. As in many French train stations, there’s a piano for travellers to while away their wait, and play on a while. I never know whether it’s the pianist or listeners who most benefit. I love it. I’ve never […]
Read MoreMoving home – and knowing it’s your last time
September 8, 2024 1 CommentMain image by Mantas Hesthaven on Unsplash 1 June 2024 I just said goodbye – or at least “au revoir” – to my neighbour. Let’s call her Marie. She is 82, and starting to decline cognitively, and to a lesser degree, physically. Her three daughters, who all live fairly close by, have been very hands-on […]
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