"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: a taste in ideas." Susan Sontag
21 Dec 2014
Monthly Archives: December 2014
18 Dec 2014
It’s probably been for a fair chunk of 2014 that I have produced these weekly summaries and they have proven to be a good habit in mindful reflection on the week that was. I highly recommend the practice. In this update I also want to reflect on 2014 as a whole. If I think back to my mindset at the start of 2014 – returning to work after a brilliant summer holiday on the Sunshine Coast – I would not have guessed I would have had such an expansive year waiting for me. I mean it when I say that 2014 will be a year I will look back
11 Dec 2014
I love the music of Peter Gabriel and one of my all time favourite pieces of his work is ‘Solsbury Hill’. Have a read of these lyrics and see what his word pictures cause to happen in you. For me, these words remind me of internal transformations that I have had in my life: times when you know that you will never be the same because of a specific event, or a person you have met or a piece of information that has changed you irrevocably. You know that you are somehow transformed but you don’t always know how to show up as the new
08 Dec 2014
“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart