This is where I babble about my silly epiphanies, my random thoughts and my aha moments.
‘All your dreams come true if you have the courage to pursue them’. Walt Disney The first song I ever learned from beginning to end was ‘A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes’ sung during the cartoon-version of the movie Cinderella. I was young, and believed in the words I sung, that my dreams would…
“Be happy in this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam After reading books like; The Secret, The Happiness Project, Eat Pray Love, Deepak Chopra The Book of Secrets, The Power of Now, The Alchemist, Dr. Phil’s Life Strategies; I started a happy thought journal on Oprah’s suggestion, exercised each day, slept 8…
“The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.” David Lyons This morning, like most mornings I woke up and went directly downstairs to find the sun. I placed my yoga mat vertically like a person in prayer, and started my daily stretches. It is here that my little epiphanies find me; those reflective moments…
DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE SUPERNATURAL? Definition : Supernatural – a force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature I have told this story a thousand times, usually drunk with no inhibition. Now, I am not a pusher of ideas or necessarily a believer, just open to…
How far is the journey? As deep as it is long! My layers have shed, my true self exposed. There is a heeling process when experiencing so much change. I say goodbye to my former self. The other person was here for so long, and to realise that it wasn’t the authentic me, makes me…
December 14th 2012 was my 39th birthday, and I have made a list of the forty places I wish to visit over the course of the next year before turning the big four oh and specifically what I would like to see and do there. Last year when we started our adventure in Europe,…
“Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest on the roadside inns. He marches directly to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.” Swami Sivananda My mobile kept dropping the call from the tourist office but I was nearly home. From the corner of my eye I saw a character…
Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. Keanu Reeves When people hear our story about how we sold it all to move across the world searching for happiness, many called it our “midlife crisis”. I decided to write about how I…
December 14th is my 40th birthday, and I dedicated the last year of my thirties to complete a wishlist of things I want to do before turning the big four-oh! My list changed, evolved, and grew as I went through the process of completing 40 activities. I wanted to push myself outside my comfort zone…
We need to give our children roots and wings.. “As a Canadian expat the biggest adjustment as a parent was placing my Montessori reared children into French public school.” Complete polar opposites when it comes to education, the differences are not just in methods of execution but also the core principles. Canadian schools have been…