New Paths

I love both sides of January - a fresh start and the energy of Winter lingering. It gives space around new beginnings and existing commitments. What are you looking forward to? I'm going to enjoy meeting up with people, creating some new things and exploring nature. We're all navigating change and as we do, it …

Keep Digging

There are those whose words echo, far beyond their lifetime. I return to such words, because of their beauty and how as humans, we vibrate a thread that connects us all. I re-read Marcus Aurelius Meditations. Each morning, savouring phrases that have my soul humming. I love that words written two millennia ago still have …

Crafting the New

The contrasts are intense at present, between many things. The elegant design of nature is playing out as it does, with a serenity that is captivating. I watch it through the window and on walks. Global events continue, some of them leaving a path of devastation. I see it in news updates and when catching …

Together

People often look outward instead of inward. It is pointless to want all of humanity to make all the same choices, have all the same beliefs. Apart from the obvious (never gonna happen), it would create weakness and make us more vulnerable to extinction than we already are. We thrive and continue, because of our …

Lullaby of Sky

Today I'm sharing the lullaby of sky, a poem that details the character's united journeys in my fantasy novel, which is out now. Sky full of lullaby Answering heart’s call Shadows in the wake of light Journeying towards a fall . . . A million strings beating sparks Together moving to a dark sum Planets …

Home

Here is another extract... "The air we breathe, the ground beneath, the water that surrounds touches all. Awoken by sunlight, we grow together. From mineral or mountain, leaf or bud. Formed in veins, stretching in strata. Wherever we go is home - in our bones. Life bends, bows, decays and grows. Of blood, star, marrow …