BEING KAREN

Why, Lady? I have to ask. So many why’s. Why not choose differently? Why not give us a Queen of Ithaca? Choose a young lusty lover,...

Things done in private. Stare at the crone in the mirror, wonder how that wild white hair multiplies so, no idea. Eat toast for dinner,...

I miss the wind. The clear skies. There is no blue like an Amdo sky. And the deeply dark, silent temples, with towering deities, who...

"A religious perception of reality replaced a spiritual perception of reality. Because through a spiritual perception of reality, we are...

"What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?" Job 38:19 Job had real questions, he called out to his God with...

I might be Australian, but I am a Melbourne girl. This is my city, she shaped me and we have grown up together. My personal compass has...

Melbourne enters day 200 of lockdown days since march 2020. A sober thought, two thirds of a year spent at home. Like everyone else I...

This is me drinking poop coffee, or more politely, coffee made from beans that have passed through the digestive tract of the Asian palm...

I woke up in a river. I went to to sleep and somehow in the night my dreaming boat, became a boat. We are drifting and gliding together...

A tiny bird. It’s bones are made of wind and ice. So frail, so ill equipped for what just happened. It is impossible at this moment to...

In Beowulf, Grendels mother presents us with the problem of the aglæc-wif. She is swift in retribution for her sons death. She is named...

"... close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like ..." Seriously anywhere. I...

Last year I turned 60. That was expected. However 2020 was not the year any of us were expecting. Here in Australia we started the year...