The Dream Weaver: Memoir

I started keeping a dream journal, fully illustrated, when I was seven. It was on very poor quality brown paper in a floppy wide notebook, and I still have it. I probably began this tradition after hearing my parents say for the umpteenth time, 'you should write them down!' as I related my dreams in tedious detail morning after morning.

A Piece of Heaven: Memoir

Cobb Valley, New Zealand. My inspiration, my heaven on earth, the safe place of my soul. Every child should have such a place.

Are we not Wise Enough?: Poem

I had a dream that all of time was running dry

and life was like a comet falling from the sky,

I woke so frightened in the dawning, oh so clear

How precious is the time we have here.

On Being Kind

'Being Kind to Ourselves.'

It sounds so trite, and so self-indulgent. But the truth is, even the Dalai Lama has spoken and written extensively about the need for compassion towards ourselves first and foremost. Until we are kind to ourselves, we will not be able to sustain being kind to anyone else.

Why is this so hard?