- Animal Power
- Life Journeys (from the book)
- Neuro-divergence
- Short Stories
- Spiritual Journeys
- Three Random Words
- Writing, Living and other Curiosities
BRIGHT LIGHTS AND CHAMBER POTS
Bright Lights and Chamber Pots – A Three Random Word Story: Today’s words are MELODRAMA. RELAXING. INFERENCE. I put the old brass key into the lock, turned it carefully and slowly pushed the heavy wooden door open. It made a dreadful groaning noise which, to my overly fanciful imagination, sounded just like the dramatic sound…
the wisdom of jellybeans
A Three Random Words StoryTUESDAY. THUNDER. JELLYBEANS You’ve probably seen stories in social media about days that are so monotonous you start working on auto-pilot, hoping that debris from some Chinese space rocket will fall through the window and smash into your boss’s desk. You day-dream that the guy working on the reception desk who…
drongo
3rd September 2026 The first time I heard one Australian calling another a ‘Drongo’ I had no idea what was meant by that term. It sounded as if it ought to be an insult, but it had been spoken in a light-hearted, friendly kind of way and not at all derogatively. I very quickly worked…
MOVEMENT
It is Movement which allows us to understand that we are alive. Sitting by the edge of the Coral Sea, looking out over the ocean, watching the waves roll towards the shore, listening to the sound of their gentle susurration. I watched the stately climb of the near-full moon as she rose from behind Hinchinbrook…
Galactic Starlight. Transylvania. Tomato Soup
I have a trick for when I get writers block – which I do very often!!! I ask someone to give me three random words or short phrases. Then I bring these words together into a storyline. What follows is the text which arose from three words suggested by a friend: Essence Ka tha’ras on…
A VERY RARE JEWEL
These meanderings often begin with someone saying a word which catches my mind unawares. It can happen in the most innocent of ways and is often a word which is part of everyday life; a word that is so overused that it’s true meaning becomes lost. Today I was talking with a good friend and…
WHEN MEDITATION IS HARD
Sometimes we can be pushing so hard to find what is right for ourselves that we miss the fact that it is right under our noses. For me, this truth was highlighted earlier today. I’m a meditation therapist. I have meditated in very many ways for decades, mostly not realising that what I was doing…
WHAT DO I WANT?
I have a friend with the most amazing mind. She holds immense knowledge and spends hours contemplating all kinds of things which my mind wouldn’t even give a passing thought to without her asking the question first. The topics are wide ranging. Things dealing with how we travel through this life, physically, emotionally, and spiritually;…
PRECIOUS THINGS
There are things in life that are precious. They stay with us throughout our lives, sometimes in physical form, sometimes only in memory. They glow in the times of love and laughter and manage to survive the pain of darker times. I’m not talking about precious stones or gold or money I am talking about…
BUCKET LIST
I never heard the term ‘bucket list’ until decades after I made my first entry on what was to become my personal bucket list. I was very young at the time and watched an elderly couple as they walked hand-in-hand down the street. The man said something to the woman and she looked directly at…
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