Merely a short half year ago, the Zoom Room was foreign territory to me. Now, it is an integral and important area of my daily attention, offering me many hours of challenge and entertainment. It has been an amazing personal transformation. New insights, new people, new conversations and new concepts have become part of my […]
New Feelings I have shared with you in previous blogs the strong feeling that pervaded my consciousness early this year. These meandering thoughts were around the need for me to become an active participant in promoting healthy habits of consumption to conserve our planet from immanent destruction. But, in the Past I had been actively […]
I am not religious. Nor do I consider myself to be particularly spiritual. However, in January I found myself experiencing a profound premonition that this year the subject of Climate Change would be important in my life. January 2020 In January 2020, there were vague rumblings about a virus in China. It was far away. […]
Baking Bread and Bettering the Brain My daughter Daniella who manufactures chef uniforms, did a deal with Jade who teaches Bread Baking. Daniella would make Jade and her mother each a beautiful apron to wear at their bread making demonstrations. In exchange, my daughter and I were offered a workshop on making Sour Dough Bread. […]
“But this is a time to gather the facts, then get quiet and summon our deepest wisdom — and let that wisdom lead us. For we have difficult choices to make in the coming days,” says Valerie Kaur in her memoir entitled “From Revolutionary Love.” It is now five months into the pandemic and I […]
Premonition of January 2020 I have never considered myself to be a particularly intuitive person. I have the odd hunch, and I know that foresight does play a role in decision making. However, since January 2020, I have been grappling to come to terms with the idea that Climate Awareness was going to be my […]
Having been a facilitator of Conscious Ageing for the past decade with members of the University of the Third Age as my participants, I felt a strong urge at the beginning of 2020. It was the need to refocus my work from emphasising the personal growth of the individual senior and awaken my cohort to […]
Last Sunday my daughter invited me to breakfast. She had been telling me about the delicious pancakes she makes. They are accompanied by stewed pears, naartjies, and bananas then topped with nuts, seeds and syrup. This description was indeed enticing, so I accepted the invitation with alacrity. The Challenge Starts! Watching her preparing for the […]
Being in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, with restrictions having been imposed on the traditional lifestyle; it seemed like a good time to start a new initiative. TED has recently curated a new opportunity within their offerings. This they have named Ted Circles. To become a facilitator required filling in an application, and having […]
South Africa has been in lockdown since 27th March 2020 – that amounts to 13 ½ weeks at the time of writing. What have I learned about myself, society and the human condition during that time? How am I making sense of all these constraints on my personal freedom? How am I coping with the […]