Summer Travel: Mushroom Reef Sanctuary, Flinders, Mornington Peninsula

The Mushroom Reef Sanctuary is home to a gigantic mushroom shaped basalt reef near Flinders in Westernport Bay. Located 86 km from central Melbourne, it’s a fantastic day trip for beach-combing, sunbathing, snorkelling or bushwalking. As an added bonus it’s hidden away from the hoards that gather on popular beaches on the opposite side of the Mornington Peninsula in Port Phillip Bay.

The naive trap we all stumble into

I’ve fallen into that delightful and gradual fantasy yet again. You would also know this one, it’s comfy, cosy and always clings to your body like a well-worn jumper, there’s some holes from moths and some dust from yesteryear on it. Nobody would say it’s fashionable, but I cling to it as a child clingsContinue reading “The naive trap we all stumble into”

My life without a barrage of news

Did you hear the news? That the news is corrosive and cancer-causing? It calcifies your organs with anxiety and fear. It gets into your processing pipes and fills them with congealed sagging lassitude and indifference. Well no, not really I just made that up because inside of my body I feel news weighing upon itContinue reading “My life without a barrage of news”

10 Creepy Things I Found for Spooky Samhain

Samhain or All Souls Night is a pagan religious festival that originates from the archaic Celtic spiritual tradition. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the time to usher in the dark half of the year. For us antipodeans, it’s the other way around and we welcome the light with open arms. Here in the unterland,Continue reading “10 Creepy Things I Found for Spooky Samhain”

Comforting Thought: Morning Poem by Mary Oliver

If it is your nature to be happy, you will swim away along the soft trails for hours, your imaginationalighting everywhere.” – Morning Poem by Mary Oliver

Ancient Word of the Day: Kairos

When you walk with ‘Kairos’ you learn how to tip yourself out of chronological time and are able to decommodify your footsteps to walk in sacred time and to the rhythm of your creative mind.

Comforting Thought: When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

“When it’s over I want to say: all my life, I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.” – When Death Comes by Mary Oliver.

Comforting Thought: How to take a spiritual detox from damaging media messages

When we constantly hear that we should be smart, better connected, more productive, wealthier – you name it – it takes real courage to claim the time and space to follow the currents of our talents, our aspirations and our hearts, which may lead in a very different direction.

Ancient Word of the Day: Humus

From the word ‘Humus’ come many of the words for being human and humility. For millennia and across many cultures, walking with your bare feet in the earth has been a sign of humility.