That Inner Nudge

How often do you listen to your inner nudge? Despite chanting and mediating I often don’t hear, or rather don’t listen to that little elbow shove from the Universe. I hear a whisper to do something and then washing up, making meals, sorting and sifting through daily life, takes over and before I know it I’m in bed again thinking about what I could have been, promising myself that tomorrow will be different. Yesterday I paid attention to the little...

We need…….or do we?

“We need a pencil-case for all the drawing stuff”. “Yes we do, I’ll get one next time I go shopping”   This is the very thinking needed to keep the wheels of the global consuming machine turning. I don’t want to be thinking like this, driven by a society and culture I don’t even agree with, but I am a product of my generation, brainwashed into thinking my wants are needs and that a little purchase here and...

Simple Pleasures

Some things that have brought me simple pleasure this week: Linking up with Wordless Wednesday  at: My Little Drummer Boys and Wordless Wednesday You might also like:Simple Pleasures (May 16, 2012) Simple Pleasures (Apr 25, 2012) Simple Pleasures (Apr 18, 2012)...

Dough simple!

Surely one of the simplest ideas alive. Mix up flour and water, mother nature supplies some natural yeast and off you go. I’m sure as time goes on I will develop some rhythm for living with Zorba MkII (MkI met his demise over Christmas) but for now it feels like trying to introduce a new pet; we have to figure out where he fits into the rhythm of our family life. In a land based home I think it would be easier to find a nice warm niche for him, a...

Setting your intention

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” Henry Thoreau. In March 2010 I started a blog, I have racked my brain trying to invent a more pithy, clever and entertaining way to express what I feel and I can’t, that was it and still is: How to be happy with less: I wish to extract myself from the dis-ease of the...

A Love Affair

A sugary piece; white bread spread with marg or butter then liberally sprinkled with sugar. A sugar cube stuck in the top of an orange and sook A wee bowl of sugar and a stalk of rhubarb. Sugar on my already sweetened cereal. Sticky buns for the corner bakery. My love affair with sugar began early and continues though it’s more of a torrid romance now in need of ending rather than something to swoon about. An article posted on Facebook prompted me...