I will start at the end, the weeks after the second miscarriage. Weeks of waking yet another morning heavy with sadness, buffeted by another wave of tears of the sort that I had been submerged in for what seemed to go on forever, when something inside me gave in, and I was able to admit …
I have been practicing Ram Dass’ meditations a lot recently. There is a beautiful moment in his Resting in Love meditation where he asks us to contemplate: Imagine, at this moment, that you are just the way you are, and you are totally loved. Feel what that feels like. Not for how you wish you …
December 2020 This is a quick sketch of me, eyes closed, sunbathing, thinking, breathing deeply, leaning on a pillar in the cloister of Aix-en-Provence, in the south of France. It was drawn by my then boyfriend in my journal of the summer of 1987 while ‘interrailing’ around Europe. I am 20 and was sorting some …
October 2017 1. Make Time to write new lectures, to come prepared to meetings, to read around subjects, to write. To eat lunch outside your office. And to perform other acts of self-caring2. Put the ‘higher’ in Higher EducationBe kind, always. In these times of division, anger and prejudice, shine brighter than you ever thought …