“The real cycle you’re working on is a cycle called yourself.” “Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You’re so sure you’ll do everything wrong you’re afraid to do anything at all.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance If you ride bicycles or motorcycles regularly …
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” -Honore de Balzac I spent more than 30 years being angry at my mother. I didn’t know why and I never questioned my feelings. My anger just was. In November of 2015 we hadn’t talked in …
It’s been 4 weeks since the ceremony described in Here Be Dragons. My shame and fear remain turned well down into the single digits after having been dialed to 11 for so long. Looking back I have realised many things about my behaviours during this time, one of which is the extent to which I …
I was leaving the grocery. My car was parked at the end of the row, in the spot farthest from the front entrance of the market. I saw a woman in a bright green shirt standing near the curb at the edge of the lot. She was looking at nothing in particular and seemed indecisive …
“And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.” Acts9:18 KJV Medieval European maps often grew outward from the Mediterranean Sea, which they believed was the centre of the Earth. At the edges of the known world was the great unknown, terra incognita, and here the maps were often illustrated with fantastical …
Today, 18 October 2016, is my second Second Birthday. Yes, that’s correct, Second Birthday. Two years ago today everything changed for me and I started down a new, healthy, and happy path that I plan to follow all the way to the end. I was born again into a new life and was given a …
“I found god in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely”-Ntozake Shange This time, the temple in the woods was familiar, a place of refuge and peace to come home to. Beneath the skylight piercing the apex of the dome was safety, community, acceptance, and love. I was excited to swim once more in …
There are tectonic moments in a life when the Earth beneath our feet shakes and shifts and the world upends itself in a convulsion of change and realignment. The path, once so clearly unrolled before us, fractures into rubble, falls into a yawning, steaming chasm, and a new, open way appears in another direction. Do you …
