Who are we without this delicate strength? Is anything we achieve without tenderness really worthit? Be tender to yourself, especially when you screw up. Practice Metta on yourself: because people who are un-tender with other people are always hardest of all on themselves. As Michael Ondaatje says, “To rest was to receive all aspects of […]
Listening
The word listen contains the same letters as the world silent. I’ve spent a lot of time working on listening. If I really listen, I find I often don’t have to ask the noisy question that was buzzing round me, demanding to be let out, because I hear something like the answer before I ask […]
Language
My second obsession after travel is with language, especially words as codes for jargon I don’t always understand & find often deliberately constructed for exclusion, or grammatical rules that stunt the ways we express ourselves by breaking our rhythms into staccato clips all held in and prevented from flowing one thought into the next meanwhile […]
Solitude
How much time do you actually spend on your own without your face in your phone? What does solitude mean to you? is it the unbroken space of time alone or doing stuff without company, which I’d argue might not be solitude but more distraction from alone-ness which so many of us are so anxious […]
