Always everybody here

Silence as Ceasefire

Posted on Jun 30th 2025

I went on another protest march for a ceasefire. We walked, and then we sat in the road in silence.

This morning I have woken with this in my mind: to sit in peace together is building.

To start somewhere, again and again.

To start.

To try.

What else do we have?

 

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Sports Days (On Giving Up)

Posted on May 23rd 2025

Once when I was studying a Counselling Skills module the trainer said 'When things are simple, people generally do them. So if they’re struggling to do something, however straightforward it may seem to you, to them it is not simple.'

I have continued to find that insight immensely helpful; a humane slap in the face to the ‘Just do it’ Nike...   Read More

The Kiss of Curiosity

Posted on May 13th 2025

With the creative arts as my home all my life, and mindfulness (and mindfulness teaching) a relatively new abode, I am intrigued by the possibility that they are one and the same: creativity and mindfulness.

If I say that curiosity is creativity’s kiss, I am describing the moving toward, the embodied experience of inquiry, of a yearning to know *what this is*. I know how...   Read More

Shark Cage

Posted on Apr 04th 2025

What points of connection might we find between mindfulness and creativity?

As a practitioner and teacher in both, I find sitting with this question offers insights on the individual practices as well as on the crossovers. The two are intertwined, profoundly. Might they even be the same thing? 

My interest continues to deepen in the fact that so much mindfulness...   Read More

Never Nobody

Posted on Feb 09th 2023

There's never nobody there. 

There's always everybody here. 

We only survive together. 

Survival of the nurtured. 

 

Art connects our nervous systems.

Our breathing, sensory bodies. 

 

You exist. How wonderful. 

 

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