While the men sauntered home or rode rickety bikes from the maghrib prayers at the mosque around the corner, and on the mainland teenagers rode to a lookout, lit cigarettes… [Continue Reading]
SpiRITUALity – Made’s cremation ceremony
Prologue Made died on a moonless, windy evening in July. It happened so chillingly fast. He’d suffered a sudden attack of excruciating chest and stomach pain at home for half… [Continue Reading]
Home
what is it about the ocean that fills my lungs and has my back and soothes my eyes and cushions my feet, and lifts my chin and eases my mind… [Continue Reading]
Honouring the melancholy
honouring the melancholy melancholy inhabits every cell and organelle beneath this skin it tugs and stretches breaks and wrinkles and sags (honouring the cheerfulness: with sunshine to botox and… [Continue Reading]
My heart
When Harley died, this beating thingshattered into a thousand crystal shardseach as sharp and fragile as a fallen chandelier.I knew not how they’d piece back together, ever.And for a while,… [Continue Reading]
A tiny tourist island… with no tourists
Gili Meno, the tropical island that’s been my home for the last five years, is tiny. I often walk around the whole island, barefoot-in-the-sand-at-sunset, and my phone shows me it’s… [Continue Reading]
Dodgy Dudes (part 4)
If you saw a wallet lying on the street, you’d pick it up, yeah? And, when you checked the cards inside and found the identity of the owner, you’d do… [Continue Reading]
Cold Feet
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading Lao Tzu It’s a long road that has no turning (from an old Irish… [Continue Reading]
TIME OUT
We didn’t really need the virus to slam its huge sinister foot on the world’s brake pedal, making the world skid and slide to a slower pace, to know that… [Continue Reading]
When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking (Coronavirus blog-story #2)
“I told you something like this would happen!” Ayu whispered to her colleagues. One of her friends shushed her. It wasn’t in their culture to question or complain or even… [Continue Reading]