Are you an Apocaloptimist? Someone who knows it’s all going to sh*t, but still thinks it will turn out OK? A very apt word to describe being in the middle of menopause AND the unfolding climate crisis. At the end of the end of the day, NOW is the “time to give yourself over to […]
Do I need a sign, waking to the soft morning light, sleep a distant future away, that today I dare to be content? I am the sign. I am the eagle suspended in the valley. The avocados dripping, vainly glorious. Silvery new leaveson the Illawarra Flame Treeafter the rain. I am all of this hot mess of creation and destruction. Folding
To move from grief, from mourning is to move from a place of sheer loss to a place of acknowledging the loss, and in mourning the permanence of the loss, it can’t be fixed, but also, it creates a space, in mourning, for you to make sacred the pain so that the rest of your
Owweee ….Discomfort triggers the most primal part of our brain, the reptilian brain responsible for survival, located in the cerebellum of the brain stem. We are hardwired to avoid discomfort, lest we die in the process. For some of us it takes retraining our brain, creating new neural networks – “what fires together wires together”
It’s happening, The Great Turning. A phrase created by Joanna Macy, ecophilosopher, activist and Buddhist scholar to describe our change in consciousness as we witness the devastation we have wrought on Planet Earth. At varying speeds and stages we are waking up to our biggest mistake; that we place ourselves in the centre of the
The trees creak and bend in mourning wind.Releasing the night’s stiffness like an arthritic human.Engulfed in the heat and smoke haze,I see the dry, dead, brittle landscape ready to blow,And feel a dull ache in the guts. Yesterday I walked by a tree, That was cradling another’s branch in its arms. In love, the plant cares for
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