“Walking helps thinking. You mull things, the landscape, your life, as you stroll along.” – Paul Salopek We often think that we have to travel long distances to find beauty and wonder, but we forget that it can also be found in our own backyards. Sometimes even without having to set foot in a car. […]
I’m told that it is tradition for families in Portugal to gather on the 24th of December, and like in most cultures it is the dinner table around which it happens. It doesn’t come as a surprise then that the Catholic Church recommends a period of fasting before Christmas. Families gather after Midnight Mass on the […]
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan Between the realisation that the heating system being installed wasn’t going to do what we thought it would (unless we spend […]
“. . . the degree of our awareness is the degree of our aliveness. What is invisible to me is what I have not yet learned how to see. The invisible becomes visible through our attention, through stillness, through silence. And patience.” – Terry Tempest Williams November was filled with a bounty of mushrooms and […]
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