Brisbane Pop-Up Shop and Workshops – August 2016

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” ~ Robert Frost   I’ve organised some lovely events for August. I hope you can join us! More details soon, but here’s an overview. Please save the following dates. From Friday 19 to Sunday 21 August I’ll be running a pop-up shop in Brisbane, as well as some one […]

Date Savers for August plus We’re On Retreat!

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ~ Michel de Montaigne   I’m off to run my Chakra Wisdoms Retreat today – a lovely immersive week of self-discovery, solitude, sanctuary, companionship, soul growth, crystals, meditation and really good food here in Byron Bay. I don’t think I have ever […]

Problems sleeping? Ride This Crazy Moon!

“She didn’t quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.” ~ Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die   This July full moon has been a doozy! Her energy so strong it has kept some […]

Should You Ride In On Your White Horse And Save Them?

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ~ Steve Maraboli   Recently I received a message on facebook that I thought it was worth answering here on my blog. Random Question – What does one do with the compulsive […]

I’d Be Blogging But… Farm Emergency!

“Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure… ” ~ Amos Bronson Alcott   Oh dear! Poor little Frida has the molasses bucket stuck around her head. We’d hoped she might figure out how to get it off all by herself, but no… So now we will have to chase […]

Five Things I Love About Being Home At My Farm

“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple […]

What Happens When Someone Believes In You

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.” ~ Richelle E. Goodrich   Memoir is a funny thing for taking you walking into places you would rather not remember. I was thinking, last night, of […]

Feeling Fragile Or A Little Low Just Now?

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.” ~ Mark Haddon, The Curious […]

Door knobs and knockers of Venice, Italy

“As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I’m still looking for the door.” ~ David Mitchell   Don’t you just love that quote? Oh, to have a door like that! […]

Blowing Up Everything I Touch

“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle   The past few days I have blown up almost everything I have touched. It happens occasionally. I don’t know why. I reach out to turn on a light switch and the bulb explodes. […]

The Quiet Calm of Morning Meditation

“Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.” ~  Deepak Chopra   I have a regular meditation practice that has stretched now for over thirty […]

Easy Tuscan Chicken Recipe

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” ~ Laurie Colwin   This is a simple meal to throw together, and a regular in our household. The flavours are […]

I Will Not Be That Cranky Old Judgemental Lady!

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson   Recently I blogged a list of ten things you probably didn’t know about me. To refresh your memory, here is number nine again: My first entrepreneurial exercise was a stall selling lemonade and […]

I’m on a Plane!

“An airplane crossed the sky, and she imagined its interior-people packed in rows like eggs in a carton, the chemical smell of the toilets, pretzels in foil pouches, cans hiss-popping open, black oval of night sky embedded in the rattling walls. How strange that something so drab, so confined, so stifling with sour exhalations and […]

Graffitis and Curiosities

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.” ~ Banksy   It’s the last day of my holidays today, and then I’ll be on a […]

The Energies of July – 2016

“Do what you think is right. Don’t let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.” ~ Steve Maraboli   Hello, Lovelies I apologise for this one being a little late, but I promise there is plenty of month left in which to apply all of this information. July is here, and a […]

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