"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the … Continue reading Feeling anchored by nature: a reflection
Shani is my cousin, the only other girl on my Dad's side of the family. Her father, my uncle Warren, passed away from cancer three years ago. So it was a particularly unwelcome punch in the guts for the family when Shani herself had her own brush with cancer in February of this year. Shani, … Continue reading Good news stories: Shani
I struggle with Christmas. There, I’ve said it. I know I’m not the only one. There are many reasons people just can’t wait for Christmas to be over: loss of loved ones, family dysfunction, loneliness, poverty; the list goes on. People often find it strange, though, that I’m a bit of a Grinch, given that … Continue reading Disconnected at Christmas
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