Blog Posts
the perfect trap
Marion Woodman expressed it best: “perfection rapes the soul”. She was right. The quest for perfection creates a lonely life. Because when I’m on it, I don’t even have my Soul for company. I’ve been working on a post for a couple of...
scared to trust life
Over the past three months, I’ve received multiple invitations to trust life more deeply than I’ve ever done before. I’ve been inside a perfect storm of insecurity, instability and uncertainty. I’ve been asked to face my deepest fears: that the...
chasing Rumi
Rumi: What you seek is seeking you. A couple of weeks after I quit my corporate job in 2010, I went to Turkey. After hanging out in Istanbul and at the beach with a friend, I got on a bus alone and went to Konya – the small city in Central Anatolia where Rumi is...
something happened on the day he died
I never met David Bowie. I saw him perform live only once, on a big stage in a large venue. It wasn’t an intimate gig. I didn’t get backstage afterwards. We didn’t know each other. To me, he was only ever an idea/l. But I’m sitting here the day after he died and I...
how to make a bonfire out of candles
I woke up on Saturday morning to find Paris in pieces. For a couple of hours after the Guardian app pushed an alert to my phone, I kept crying as waves of grief tore through me. I was fascinated to observe my own reaction. The news hit me harder than some other events...
the architecture of fear and the power of changing our story
Over breakfast this morning, I watched this video and wept. I watched it again several hours later, as I was wrestling with this post. I was trying to decide whether to hold back and water down my account of some recent revelations by confining them to this lifetime…...