2021… Looking back

A couple of days ago, I downloaded an app to compile the 9 best images on my Instagram page. I did it twice and it came up with exactly the same images both times. Eight out of the nine images are tied to what has been the biggest highlight of a very difficult year - …

Dear Person

Dear Person, if only you knew,The secrets hidden in the words I spew,The truth hidden in the things I say,in the things I do for you on any day. Dear Person, when needed, I'll be your reality check,Your jaws of life in any wreck,A vault for things you want to safeguard,A support for all the …

Lessons for the Living

I started writing this post listening to Sensei shouting out instructions from the school hall, hearing kids talk over each other in the foyer while waiting for their class, the scrape of chairs, cars in the road, the groan of the geyser. And I can't help but think how accurately that jumbled mess of noises …

Challenges – Part 4: Redistributing the Energy

I ended 2018 on a positive note, feeling so great about the things I had managed to accomplish, and about the people that I had around me. And then one thing happened, then another and another, and here I am, three months into 2019, feeling like an insecure teenager again but like I've aged 30 …

Coming home…the after-effects of the English air

I think we should have foreseen that a journey with a dramatic start would have a dramatic end. When we arrived at Heathrow airport on Monday afternoon, we tried to check in and couldn't - only to discover that we were not booked on the first flight of our return journey (London - Addis Ababa). …