It’s Valentine’s Day this week, but I have never seen much point to it other than having an excuse to eat more chocolate until this year. I’ve had number of long time dreams coming into alignment in my life at last and I found myself full of grateful love for the many people who have …
Impact: Appreciating the Footprints We Leave Behind
Impact: What We Leave Behind I’ve always loved graveyards, they are a moment of past lives, frozen in memory. They are a place where life meets death. They are a mark left behind by strangers you never knew and now, as you stand before their resting place, you think: What was your life like? What …
I Made a Galaxy: Unpacking the Phrase “I Need To”
How Many Galaxies Exist? Somewhere in the range of 100 or 200 billion but that’s not any more certain than the question: Will I die tomorrow? Who knows. There’s plenty of statistics, math equations and factors that could probably give an answer somewhere between an estimate and a definite answer. But do any of those …
The Magic of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus
Over the last few months of 2017 I took a novel I’ve been wrestling with and figured out it was less a story about people and more a story about stories. Then I got my new place a bookshelf (at last!) and stumbled across a novel that’s sat on my reading list and in …
Visit London: Learning London City With Lists and Food
Learning London City Day One Breakfast, tentative, tiptoing into a corner of the chatting room. I toasted bread, find peanut butter and quirk a first smile. I will spend the next two years oscillating between amusement and exasperation that the British understanding of peanut butter is full of sugar and very little of peanuts. But …
Being Creative: Building a Community of Imagination
Being Creative Every marketing expert and guru of the internet gabs on and on (just talk, talk and more talk) about branding yourself. Sticking yourself to one particular image, one particular style. A bit like if an actor purposely typecast themselves (which I think most, understandably hate and try to avoid like the plague). I …
Visit London: Transform Dreams into Lived Stories
Visit London: An Introduction I lived in London for two years and I have endless stories from the experience. I’m in the process of organising years of descriptive emails into a series of travel memoirs. Before all that gets settled, I’d like to let you all into some of my experiences as I continue my …
Challenge: Keep Your Feet
The Challenge It’s been a while. So what’s the point in coming back? 1. Going full circle. 2. New perspectives of the beginning and where you are now. 3. Never leave something incomplete. Really, that’s three ways of saying nearly the same thing. Returning to the beginning always brings fresh perspectives which, when you’re …
Visiting Mundanity: The Value of Travel for a More Fulfilled Life
Two years ago, I started my UK adventure in the small town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. It’s the sort of middle of the field town where public transportation consists of trains one every hour to larger centres like Ipswich, and otherwise, you really need a car. I managed well enough though, still getting …
The Value of Visiting Museums
Museums… Make your jaw drop the first time. Give you sensory overload. Contain room after room, like the Never-ending Story. And sometimes they begin to look all the same. For example… The Enlightenment Room at the British Museum is an endless hall of collectors bits. I figured this out after a month and a half …