Retreat Went on an online retreat this week, that replaced the Dharma, Body and Connection to Earth retreat at Gaia House that was cancelled due to the lockdown. Our theme was Decolonizing the mind and cultivating the causes of happiness, led by Anushka Fernandopulle and Bonnie Duran, with guest contribution from Elvina Charley. I’m so […]
Posts with the poetry tag
The week that started 25th May 2020
Writing ALL the things I got really behind with my weeknotes… Whoops! I’ve been writing other things instead: speculative short story about a world that values busyness over everything else, and the radicals resisting that; I find sci-fi so hard to write, not happy with this one (yet) but really glad I did it short […]
The week that started 11th May 2020
On death in Mary Oliver’s poetry I love how Mary writes of death in White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field. There’s a whole section of owl poems in the collection of her selected poems that I’m reading. Which makes me wonder about owls as harbingers of death or representations of death for […]
The week that started 2nd September
I flew to Málaga on Monday; I fly back this Monday too, a week later. Views that greeted me shortly after arrival…: Watched ‘Styling Hollywood’ with friends, researched crocodilians for my novel and ate beans on toast. Living the life. I read out an extract from my novel, which was exhilarating, and I’m so glad […]
The week that started 26th August
This has been a week of endings. But I’m not sad. Because I see it as a week of renewed beginnings. Like, because I’ve finished The Artist’s Way, again, I get to start it. Again. Endings are a cause for celebration. I’ve successfully completed four weeks of study. I’ve learned about learning. Now I’ll learn […]
The week that started 19th August
Here are some words about: Scientists. Learning. Writing. And some photos. Enjoy! I’m on a writing residency and it’s time for sleep before another packed day. Baa. Meeting scientists & discovering my own love of science Last week I randomly, and wonderfully, met a senior researcher at the Natural History Museum, who’s a marine biologist. […]