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Breaking the Silence
The chill morning air was filled with voices, each individual call echoing between the cumulus clustering to obscure the sun. I stood on the breakwater, my feet pointing towards the waves disintegrating into foamy droplets the moment they reach the large concrete blocks, my spine angled back to compensate for the steep stone slope. I stood there mute, as the gulls and the terns, the starlings, the ducks and the cormorants all sang their songs to the numinous nothingness. Cries and chirrups, tweets and twitters and poignant, long drawn out, mournful wails that pulled at something essential, right at my core. And still I stood silent, staring out at the…
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Confessions of an Inconstant Blogger
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, grow…” The Talmud When I read that quote last night, it just about near broke my heart. If even the blades of grass have angels encouraging their growth, then where was my angel? Why was I not growing? Sometimes it’s easy to feel like we’ve become stuck. Jammed into an in-between space where its uncomfortable, we don’t really fit, but we’re not altogether sure how to get out of our stuckness. Or, and this is somehow even worse, that we can see so many ways to get out of our stuckness, and the sheer number of…
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Starting Afresh
It’s been a wee while since I posted here, and that because lots of things have been going on in the background. Lots of endings and beginnings, lots of changes and transitions. It’s all really positive, but it has meant that this blog has been rather neglected. So I’m calling this a fresh start. September has always felt like a time of beginnings for me. I think perhaps because this is the start of the academic year. Accordingly, I am changing the way I deliver my own Bloom by Moon course materials. Since I started developing and sharing this course, I have relied on Ning to help me organise the…
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Reading Resistance
This is the final post in my Summer Read-Along series on Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife; it was supposed to go up tomorrow, but due to weekend plans, I’m posting it a bit early! To post a comment or add a link please scroll down… It’s funny, because this isn’t the final post I envisioned for this series at all. I had thought that I’d probably write something along the lines of long-lasting love, or maybe the pain of grief and loss, or even a meditation on patience. But instead, I find that I am writing about resistance. My own resistance, to be exact. You see, when I first…
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Summer Read-Along Roundup – Post 3
The third of our roundup posts for our Summer Read-Along of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Traveler’s Wife seems to have crept up on me! Doesn’t time travel quickly 😉 There have been some lovely posts for you this week to check out. Please do click through to read the full posts and leave comments – such beautiful insightful writing is a real treat! Imagine having your whole life already planned out for you. You know which college you will get into. You know when you’re going to meet the love of your life and more importantly who that is going to be. You know how you have your coffee…
