Rather than join a workshop on ‘healing the sacred feminine’, I chose to participate in absentia, taking myself for a walk in nature. I believed I was heading up a lovely river path, one I had explored the day prior in search of a rumored waterfall. Yet in one spontaneous moment I veered left, gently … Coming down
It’s the first New Year of a fresh, now living-together, intimate relationship. I’m away on a residential retreat, completing a year-long transformation process with a group of souls – one of whom had been my long-term partner when this process began. She was extremely angry and wanted nothing to do with me – quite understandable given … Meeting Your Lover’s Lover
I took myself on an immersive journey into nature – it had been a long time coming, and after a good rainfall the waterfalls would be pumping. There’s a special quality present after rain: different scents welcomed me with an entourage of delicate sensations reaching out from the surrounding air and damp sounds.
Many years ago I’m squirming in the iconic Labia Theatre while taking in the controversial art film, 9 Songs. Physically I’m dead-still, as is ‘appropriate’ for a theatre, but that nonchalant exterior was feeling painfully incongruent with the loving making being witnessed on the screen. I was awkwardly aware of the audience in the theatre … The Reality of Watching Films
I keep coming back to this: slow the fuck down. It has its origin one cheerful evening in a Camps Bay restaurant, dinning with a small group of travellers I’d not met before. As happens in the customary sniff-down of these new meetings I was asked what I do.
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