Tag Archives: Self-Portrait

What Would My Inner Child Do?

“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”  – Saint-Exupéry,The Little Prince The month of November whooshed by, as it normally does, because for whatever reason the Earth seems to spin much faster at the end of the year. The countdown to […]

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Embracing the Change

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts This September my world changed a little bit: I joined the gluten-free crowd. Funnily enough, it was on advice of a new dentist I visited while my usual doctor was away. […]

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Taking a Pause, Reading a Book

“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward” – Spanish Proverb I was lying on the grass in the Botanical Gardens and was trying to remember the last time I’d done it. And I couldn’t. I also must say it was Monday so it was probably the first time in many […]

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Growth

“Being scared to death just means it’s something that I really need to do” – Mary Marantz Last week Mary Marantz made me stop in my tracks again. With her quite light-hearted but rather deep blog post (the quote above comes from that post). And Jasmine Star made me think. Well, Jasmine has been making […]

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Yellow and Red and Brown

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns” – George Eliot Every year around this time, when the air is crisp and clear, the nights are cool, the doona is out, we go to Mount Wilson in the […]

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