In this modern world of doing, achieving, obtaining and searching, how do we rest? What does stillness even mean in this context? How can we experience it? And why might we want to? That we might even be asking these questions underlines the necessity. In our rush to complete that internet search, to buy that […]

The bookcase seemed to have beckoned to me and, once I was near it, the book jumped out at me. Not literally. It didn’t fall off the shelf as sometimes happens, but its title seemed to come into focus, demanding my attention. And Then There Was Light. I wasn’t looking for a book. I wasn’t […]

When I used to live in the USA, I always appreciated the reminder at Thanksgiving of the potential to be thankful in any moment, in any situation. In my home country of Canada, Thanksgiving was not as big a holiday. It also more clearly related to the abundance apparent at the time of harvest. Unfortunately, […]

We have all been little. We began our lives that way. Little. Dependent. Vulnerable. Intelligent. Sentient. Vast beings entering into little bodies. Over time our bodies grow. We not only become larger but also more complex, more independent individuals. In the process, the little one that we were is often forgotten. Whatever wounding we experienced […]