Some poetic musings… New moon A brief vision of spider, Symbol of new beginnings, Slowly making her way up my leg. An ascent to the heart of me. Sunshine lollipops and Rainbows. Freedom within And shame without. I miss you. I miss your baby gurgles And wobbly first steps. I…

The City/The Beach (04/02) I curl myself into a ball, my limbs curling around each other, protecting my torso. Through my tightly clenched eyelids I see my body mimic the spiral of my favourite seashell. Secure in spiral form, I remember the beach. I feel the sand on my feet…

Twirling From within the grey fog a twirling figure appears. Big babushka skirt and 3 stone boots, cardigan matching the fog and a shock of red hair appearing and disappearing from underneath a purple scarf. I’m twirling in the mist Because I know what I miss. Because I don’t know …

I’ve seen many things you know; even without eyes I sense the world outside and around me. I tune into the vibrations. There is no feeling without me, every pinch of pain and burst of butterflies is my doing. I take my job seriously. Our conglomerate is solid, our workforce…

The journey home-Part I “The thing that the mainstream media doesn’t want you to know is that Donald Trump is a force for good my friend!” I looked back and saw a young British (white, obviously) man talking to an older Thai man. The Thai man and I exchanged looks…

Hair loss and regrowth Haikus About four months after giving birth, my hair started falling out. Big clumps of it every time I brushed my hair, my flat was littered with miniature tumbleweeds of it. I expected it, I have enough friends with children to know that it happens to…

Little Larissa and Plum Village I have spent the past few weeks and months connecting with my inner child. I finally finished reading Thich Nhat Hahn’s book, Reconciliation: healing the inner child, which I bought over a year ago at his monastery in France. I went there just under a…

Ron On the last night of my 5 days in Bangkok, before I travelled north to Sukhothai, I did a street food tour. …

No distractions, or: The battle of procrastination It’s really hard to sit with yourself, with no distractions. I imagine a lot of people are struggling with this right now. I’ve been travelling for two months now, moving around quite a lot-I think the longest I’ve spent anywhere was the 6…