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At the darkest time of the year, we celebrate a festival of light. Christmas is a festival of light, lights twinkling from rooftops and windows, candle flames illuminating mantles and altars. In the stillness of a long ago night, it was a kind of miracle. A baby is born under a starlit sky. Three Kings Read More…
Gratitude, you may have heard, is a practice you can do. Get a journal with a gorgeous cover, and every evening, reflect over the day’s happenings. Select five things you feel grateful for. Be as specific as possible—that is the key to this practice. Each day you want to write something new. It is the Read More…
Living a lie takes its toll. Small habits of duplicity build over time, and we women—because of our orientation toward pleasing others—are particularly susceptible. You accept an invitation to a dinner party, when you really want to stay home and read a book. You volunteer to organise the school fundraiser, because the teacher asks you Read More…
I might not seem like a Martian, but beneath the lipstick and silk, lies the indomitable spirit of the red planet. Mars rules my character, my body, my orientation to whatever challenge life presents. Adventure feeds my spirit, purpose the zest that wakes me before dawn. Desire pulses hot through the veins of Martians. Its Read More…
Yesterday I woke up wrecked. A late dinner of fish and white wine has done it to me before. But I was at table with spirited Italians, the octopus fresh and cooked with love, the flavours evocative, the conviviality compelling. Turned out it was someone’s birthday also, so there was no refusing the ice cream Read More…
Regret over past choices is a heavy emotion. It hangs like a dark cloud, keeping the mind spinning through endless scenarios of what might have been, what could have been, and most darkening of all, what I “should have” done. Few mind-games keep our lives as small as that one. It can start as play, Read More…
How do you decide things? Your gut responds with certainty. Emotions surface with compelling force. You recognise patterns from past experiences, in this life or another, and may think all this resides “inside you”. But that is only a particular perspective. There is another more liberating. Everything you identify as you—your body, mind, memory, soul, Read More…
The blue light of morning holds a promise. The ancient rishis knew that. But don’t just believe it, investigate for yourself. It is happening for me right now in a most serendipitous way. My effort to protect my garden here in Sardinia from wild pigs has me up each morning well before dawn, inspecting the Read More…
Two weeks ago I could not have written this. Even now I am not sure, reluctant to follow the thread of my thoughts but at the same time aware that it is time to reach out to my yoga friends. There might even be some yoga lesson to emerge from this, yet that is not Read More…
At the darkest time of the year, we celebrate a festival of light. Christmas is a festival of light, lights twinkling from rooftops and windows, candle flames illuminating mantles and altars. In the stillness of a long ago night, it was a kind of miracle. A baby is born under a starlit sky. Three magi Read More…
