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He Knew Me Better Than Anyone Else Has Ever Known Me
Posted in Advantages of Age5 mn read This time last year my best friend died. Scott Taylor, Canadian, dramatist, artist, pianist, cultural commentator, polymath, survivor of an abusive childhood, collector of Susuki vases, author of a 700 page as yet unpublished tome ‘Dismantling Mouths’, and, in his own words, ‘a neurotic’s neurotic’. In January this year, I attended, virtually, a seven hour […]
A Traveller or a Tourist?
Posted in Advantages of Age7 mn read Something horrible and unexpected happened during the first few days of our recent trip to Vietnam. My travelling friend, Ruby and I went on day trip – in a deluxe mini bus which took nine people but there was just us, a Japanese older man, and two 40 something Swiss men – to the famous […]
Borrowed Light – Joining My Daughter’s Hen Weekend
Posted in Advantages of Age5 mn read Earlier this year, in May 2022 – after a long winter of shielding and healing where I occupied an increasingly shrinking, but very safe-feeling world – I emerged, tentatively, into the sun. This process was facilitated in no small part by a group of bright, young women – my daughter’s closest and dearest friends, who […]
Roadmap to Compassion
Posted in Health7 mn read Recently, somebody asked how I found my way to The Fields of Kindness. This is, as much as it can be, my reply.
Life in the Slow Lane.
Posted in Advantages of Age3 mn read About six years ago I joined one of those jokey, purposeless Facebook groups. We never meet up, we never do anything fun, we never did anything except bitch about how slow tourists walk.
How Creating my Own Rituals Helped me Grieve for my Mother
Posted in Death9 mn read I’m a skeleton collector. I have a large sea-washed radius from a sperm whale beached on the sands in Orkney. Part of its flipper, its hand…
He Knew Me Better Than Anyone Else Has Ever Known Me
Posted in Advantages of Age5 mn read This time last year my best friend died. Scott Taylor, Canadian, dramatist, artist, pianist, cultural commentator, polymath, survivor of an abusive childhood, collector of Susuki vases, author of a 700 page as yet unpublished tome ‘Dismantling Mouths’, and, in his own words, ‘a neurotic’s neurotic’. In January this year, I attended, virtually, a seven hour […]
A Traveller or a Tourist?
Posted in Advantages of Age7 mn read Something horrible and unexpected happened during the first few days of our recent trip to Vietnam. My travelling friend, Ruby and I went on day trip – in a deluxe mini bus which took nine people but there was just us, a Japanese older man, and two 40 something Swiss men – to the famous […]
Borrowed Light – Joining My Daughter’s Hen Weekend
Posted in Advantages of Age5 mn read Earlier this year, in May 2022 – after a long winter of shielding and healing where I occupied an increasingly shrinking, but very safe-feeling world – I emerged, tentatively, into the sun. This process was facilitated in no small part by a group of bright, young women – my daughter’s closest and dearest friends, who […]
Roadmap to Compassion
Posted in Health7 mn read Recently, somebody asked how I found my way to The Fields of Kindness. This is, as much as it can be, my reply.
Life in the Slow Lane.
Posted in Advantages of Age3 mn read About six years ago I joined one of those jokey, purposeless Facebook groups. We never meet up, we never do anything fun, we never did anything except bitch about how slow tourists walk.
How Creating my Own Rituals Helped me Grieve for my Mother
Posted in Death9 mn read I’m a skeleton collector. I have a large sea-washed radius from a sperm whale beached on the sands in Orkney. Part of its flipper, its hand…
