JULY 2012

30 Jul 2012

I’m home!!! Oh my heart is so full of joy to have my feet back on African soil – actually, on Empilweni soil. It feels so wonderful to be here on top of my hill, among my trees with the valley below and the river in the distance, with my family, with my dogs, with the beauty that is Empilweni ...

21 Jul 2012

When I was depressed I used to hate the insomnia. It was almost frightening waking in the early hours and feeling so lonely and as though I was the only person in the world. Night after night I would go to bed exhausted ...

19 Jul 2012

I don’t know whether I’ve told you about Suirin. I’ve been coming here to teach for about twelve years now and it’s like yet another home. When I first came, there was a house and one pine building in this small village ...

14 Jul 2012

I’ve been preparing a workshop for Tokyo - Living a Love Affair with Life – and therefore looking at my own love affair with life. I’ve been pondering on whether I believe that life is full of blessings because my life is full of blessings, or whether, because I believe in a life full of blessings, that’s what I have ...

02 Jul 2012

Greetings from the Chongwe River in Lower Zambezi. I’m here to perform a wedding ceremony in this fabulous place where there’s an elephant watching as I write and baboons squabbling across this narrow part of the river. Two very large crocodiles bask in the sun and some Egyptian geese wander nonchalantly by ...