***  I tried to write this post on movement and the space between thrice – and lost it each time. Rather than try to again recreate my lengthy notes and thoughts I have decided to put some notes I had written elsewhere below and took this as an opportunity to first share [...]

  When was the last time you really laughed? Why not start right now?   I have always laughed a lot, and pretty loudly but lately it seems I do it more and it seems to be even more fun! My favourite laughing is when your eyes get wet, your body rings, your friends join [...]

"…There is a famous story told of a child who continually annoyed his father. In desperation the father took a map of the world, tore it into many pieces and told his son to put the puzzle pieces back together to make the map of the world. Knowing the child had not learned what the [...]

I had the pleasure of a lunch with an old friend today who works in finance, where I explained one current realisation: I needed to learn to invest. His advice was simple…well I’m not such a bad storyteller to give the answer straight away! Happy reading… Ah yes, my need to learn to invest: This [...]

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; Ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive" – Howard Thurman*   *A little note: apparently this quote is often attributed to the fictitious, well according to wikipedia, Harold Thurman Whitman. Whoever wrote [...]

"Keep your thoughts positive,because your thoughts become your words.Keep your words positive,because your words become your behaviour.Keep your behavior positive,because your behaviors become your habits.Keep your habits positive,because your habits become your values.Keep your values positive,because your values become your destiny." – Gandhi"As you imagine, so you become"thanks Andrea!

 “Several years ago I came up with the idea to collect and distribute all our families recipes – many people could cook really well – so young people had an opportunity to be able to cook the same things that their parents and grandparents cooked. But what we quickly learned was a lot of people [...]

Image: Echo (c) Steve Solinsky "Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again, But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves [...]

"You don’t reach Serendip by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings serendipitously." – John Barth, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (New York, 1991) (via Richard Boyle’s version of "Three Princes of Serendip") *** With the help of some sailors and [...]

  You are never too old for Dr. Seuss! So I thought I would share this one - my favourite … Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction [...]