Archive for the ‘knowledge & wisdom’ Category

On Movement and Breath - And the Space Between

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

 
 
 
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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 the [...]

Stories and Circles

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

 
‘We dance around in a ring and suppose…                                 The secret sits in the middle and knows.’  
- Robert Frost - (I first saw this line via Alan Stewart in 2005)
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"Stories move in circles.
They don’t move in straight lines.
So it helps if you listen in circles.
There are stories insidestories and stories between stories, and [...]

You…

Monday, June 11th, 2007

You are the expert of your own story!
- quote via working with / learning from Barrie

On My/One’s Role

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

"…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 [...]

Rumi - Guest House

Monday, May 21st, 2007

This being human is a guest house

Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest [...]

Poison & Antidote Lesson - Mother Nature

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

 
 
 
 
                                                 I was walking barefoot in a grassy field today, as you do, and found myself stung by some nettles. Upon realising, I started to scratch.
Quickly, my walking partner jumped to where I was bent, picked some leaves from the plant neighbouring the offender and told me to rub them on the sting. The [...]

Be I…

Friday, April 20th, 2007

‘If I would be like him,
Who would be like me?’
 
- An old quote thanks to the brilliance of Barry, a brother of a beautiful friend of mine, Annie, and my friend too… 

Think Talk Walk Positive

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

"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!

Current Inspiration: Banksy, Good Coffee and Story

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Greetings from London! So I have had the pleasure of England the last few weeks and the privilege of staying with some fabulous friends and families so thank you! Have resisted the internet for the most part but today wanted to share some things I’m thinking and seeing:
Banksy: I may be a bit late [...]

Remembering ‘Why Are Fire Engines Red?’

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Greetings from the English countryside - with special thanks to the fabulous Eave’s family grounds - thank you thank you thank you.
While discussing the length of something I was reminded of the rhyme my father taught me:
Why are Fire Engines Red? 
Fire engines are red because they have 8 wheels and 4 people ride it. [...]