Imagine waking up tomorrow morning, and opening your mouth to say good morning to your partner, but not a sound comes out. Or it comes out in a language you’ve… [Continue Reading]
Tag: writing helps healing
Life
None of us are immune; life is tough Even when you lift your face to the sun while waves lap gently around your ankles on a warm sandy shore. Even… [Continue Reading]
The clear as mud case for meditation
After many years of dreaming about it (and countless google searches, emails kept in my draft folder, endless tabs kept open), I finally went to a meditation retreat! A week… [Continue Reading]
A Rant: high-season moaning insta-tourists
Another day, another boatload of excited but tired passengers from Bali arrive on the island. The transfer boat pulls up alongside the floating jetty and the newcomers stand up to… [Continue Reading]
It’s just a panic attack…!
I’m in the supermarket. I’ve only just walked in. As usual, the white light shocks me. But tonight something is different. It’s like, extra bright. I squint behind my fingers… [Continue Reading]
Views from an Open Widow
Dearest Gentle Reader, Did you miss me? It’s hard for me to believe it, but it’s been a year since I wielded my quill. Life has been too all-encompassing to… [Continue Reading]
A little (big) love story
Once upon a time there was a Welshman who loved to ride bikes, climb mountains and dive in the ocean. Steve had been through a lot; a life of service,… [Continue Reading]
dance this chance
what a dance, this chance, these two butterflies floating and exploring tentatively side by side, fluttering in the sunshine between leaves and petals and floating on the breeze where the… [Continue Reading]
that heartless thing insomnia
both of them slept on my left, back when. and ever since then, at the end of each day when I flick the switch to turn on the dark, that… [Continue Reading]
Mysterious Ways
‘Life is a balance of holding on and letting go’ It was October 2014. One month after Harley, the man that I loved, had taken his own life. I was… [Continue Reading]