Awareness, wisdom

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The Art of Listening

The Art of Listening

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.

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Awareness, Mandalas

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The Question

The Question

Winter Star Mandala “Why hadn’t he asked me to marry him?” The time and the place were perfect. We’d been together for just over a year. We were deeply in love. We were sitting in a fabulous restaurant after a magical evening listening to the Prague String Quartet. (Bach – my favourite.)  We’d had a box (!) in the lavishly decorated Art Nouveau Opera House. The holiday was my Christmas present. By far and...

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Compassion

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Teen Transformation

Teen Transformation

This is a short summary of a powerful, inspirational video which documents the moving transformation of a group of teenagers as they follow Challenge Day’s “Be the Change” program.

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Happiness

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From the Mouths of Babes

From the Mouths of Babes

“You no never mean to me…You a good person” While babysitting and hanging out with my best-good friends’ children, I was picking and prodding pomegranate seeds from the shell, having picked some fresh from the girl’s backyard. While the youngest, age just 2, was eating hers from a bowl while watching kid shows on the couch, the older, smirkier child stood next to me, standing on her step-stool to equal the counter...

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