creating change without shouting
I’m reading Oliver Burkeman’s outstanding book 4000 Weeks: Time and How to Use It. It’s a long time in coming – both in terms of his journey to writing it and my waiting for the right time to sit with its pages. And I’m not disappointed. It is beautifully written and full of both resonance … Read more
We need to pause when we cross a threshold of endings and beginnings. Even if momentarily. Not because of indecision or reticence but because this is a significant step. Endings are important. We are not in charge of their timescale, yet we must honour their process. And likewise, birth rarely comes to order. Yet the … Read more
This week’s musings on beauty, words and thresholds took me back to the blessing I wrote at the end of a workshop in 2020. It was a gift for my fellow creatives. And reminds me that whatever threshold we are facing, we are not alone. A BLESSING FOR THE CREATIVE SOUL (because all of us … Read more
Spending more time in the conversation between John O’Donohue and Krista Tippett, I encountered this gem about one of the other themes in John’s work, that of thresholds. “… I think when we cross a new threshold, that if we cross worthily, what we do is we heal the patterns of repetition that were in … Read more
I’m not sure we ever fully know the nature of the threshold we are crossing. Sometimes we only know when we reach the other side. While other times we have a sense of the challenge it represents to our feeling of security and comfort, without clarity on exactly where we are going. Yet whatever threshold … Read more
We bless this year for all we have learned,For all we loved and lostAnd for the quiet way it brought usNearer to our invisible destination. + John O’Donohue Time has taken us by the hand and led us along many strange paths. Ways we had not expected to walk. People we never thought we’d meet. … Read more