Love and Light – though not in a corny way
December 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
December 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
December 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
December 8, 2024 7 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
December 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 […]
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