Note: I discuss this blog post and a host of other topics with the lovely and inspiring Sophia Wise One on her Vagina Talks Podcast: Episode 52: All Death is Ego Death. Available by clicking the link or on…
Clarity
MMA Fighters and Ledge-Jumpers I innately know when I am miserable (in-misery) and in need of a time-out but my insecurities have conditioned me to believe otherwise so sometimes it takes me a bit to acknowledge that’s where I…
A Military Coup I make the choice daily to be the Queen of “my castle” aka my feelings, my heart and my mind. It requires great effort because there are lots of defensive soldiers who guard my castle. I…
The tears of little girls No longer stream down my face; My wrinkles absorb them They dissolve without a trace. Once audible sobs Are now stifled in my chest By lungs which squelch them With mindful, controlled breaths. Their…
One of the blessings I cherish most in my life is having the ability to observe nature unimpeded by the constraints of time. The similarities between human behavior and those of flora and fauna are many and I suppose…
Fear is the great equalizer. The indiscriminate disease of fear can strike any economic group, race, gender or age. Fear blinds us to the real issues at hand and seeks to subversively bind us to that which it has…
An Unlikely Trio It was a relatively cool morning on the tropical island of Koh Samui and Terrence the Bull found himself more comfortable than he could remember being in quite some time. There had been a rough sea…
Love my heart Until it expands and grows wings So that I may find myself floating And dangling puppet-like from your string Bruise my heart Until my blood rises, boils and thins Until the black and blue Is both…
It was an exceptionally dark night in the jungle. It was the rainy season and although there were a million stars in the sky, nary a one could be seen from the forest floor on account of the dense…
It was the holiday season and as was tradition, my family and I were spending time at our beach house as Christmas happens in the summer in South Africa. It is probably a funny thing for people on the…