LUPUS IN FLIGHT

I want to be impressive  and say I met a mountain once, or a pyramid, or the desert - but the truth is the sea scares me  and the only lands...

‘ New Year met me somewhat sad, Old year leaves me tired’ - Christina Rossetti Bird on a wire. Bird on a tree. I see you. Do you see me? Bli...

Have you heard of the Buddhist practise called Tonglen? It's a bodhicitta meditation of taking in dark energy, difficulty or despair and...

Like Leila Chatti, I remember the 6pm brewing of tea for Dad, for me,  to get through the long winter  evening  that stretched ahead into an...

Do you recall two movies starring Kate Winslet titled 'Hideous Kinky' and 'Kinky Boots'? The first was based on a memoir by ...

Gaza is a door into two worlds -  one that keeps us alive, and one that kills us. We die, either way, at the door. Death is a door we knock ...

One year ago, on the 15th of October, I began an online course called Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, a seven week teaching course bas...

With every year that passes, I seem to accumulate a smaller number of blog posts. I think this is the inevitable fate of The Blog as a vehic...

I originally wrote this poem in response to turning down the opportunity to join my mother and her darling friend Victoria for a walk. I was...

Firstly, with thanks to Meenakshi DCruz and Dr. Sunil Pandya for personally writing to my mother and to me to express concern for my long si...