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In this article I write about the effects on our lives of our mind using our body vs our body using our mind, to live our life. The former risks leading us into fear and dissatisfaction and is constantly trying to mitigate (potential) damage. The latter allows the mind to be guided by our actual […]

How can something like kindness make for a better world? It seems too soft and subtle to make any difference… Maybe we have all become used to the hard edge of life; of law, of rules and of being treated in a depersonalised and inconsiderate way. To be in the world, apparently, one has to have a thick [...]

These three pen drawings were sold with 100% of the proceeds going to Jenny’s Place Women’s Domestic Violence and Homelessness Support in Newcastle Jenny’s Place marked their 40th anniversary in September 2017. At a celebration dinner, my lovely friend Suzie Romani presented a memorial booklet chronicling the history of Jenny’s Place. Suzie had been a long-term […]