Essays, stories & reflections
Essays, stories and reflections on wisdom, consciousness and the art of living.
Latest essays & stories
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Shaping the Space Between: Clay, Spirit, and Belonging
An Ancient Southeast Asia Setting Imagine the cusp of the Iron Age, around 600 BCE. Breathe in the pre-dawn air, thick with moisture, woodsmoke, and the deep green scent rising from highland valleys. Swift, monsoon-fed rivers carve these valleys. Here, the Himalayan foothills tumble towards…
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Why Love Can Feel Threatening
Explore love, empathy and resistance to change in personal growth, relationships and work, with reflections on self-compassion and understanding.
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Making Room for Difficult Feelings
Explore inner transformation through acceptance, forgiveness and a quieter mind, in a reflection drawing on Jung, Stoicism and Buddhist ideas.
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Unblocking the Sacral Chakra: Reconciling Pragmatism and Passion in the Pursuit of Personal Fulfilment
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?” The Summer Day, Mary Oliver Introduction The age-old debate of passion vs pragmatism takes on new meaning when viewed through the lens of the sacral chakra, the energy center…
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Allowing Life’s Absurdities: The Cosmic Laughter, Hidden Divinity, and Manifestation
Introducing the Philosophy of Allowance We often find certain life experiences unpalatable. With or without direct personal encounters, cruelties and vulgarities exist in the world, people resist or seek to banish them, and the futility of this attempt, in turn, has often brought people to…
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What Dionysus Can Teach Us About Letting Go
“…Well-fed, fruitful, increasing joyful bounty, Bursting from the earth, god of the wine-press, mighty, With changing form, a cure for men’s pain, holy bloom, A pain-hating joy for mortals, one who takes hold, with Beautiful hair, a looser from care, raging with the thyrsos, Thunderer…
Latest novel chapter
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Where Clay Divides, Where Clay Joins – Chapter 7: The Woman Who Spoke to Rivers
The stranger arrived with the dawn mist three days after the salt merchants departed, following the high-water mark where the river had swollen during last year’s exceptional floods. She moved…