Time Passes

Time Passes

We’ve just returned from Falmouth in Cornwall, not from a holiday, but to see one of our sons, Arco, graduate. Another moving milestone in a month of moving milestones.This month, I’ve cried at the following – Our 25th wedding anniversary My Mum...
Paradise Found

Paradise Found

Back in 2002, wandering around Italy in a camper van,our one year old twin boys in the back, we were, in a rather leisurely way, looking for a bit of paradise, to park our van, to renovate a farmhouse, to welcome people to our retreat centre. When we were told there...
Grumpy Thanksgiving

Grumpy Thanksgiving

It’s Thanksgiving Day today.I only usually realise on the day.As it tends not to register here in Europe. We have instead taken on the whole Black Friday thing with relish these last few years. Which seems a pity.We’ve ignored a festival devoted to giving...
One Happy Guinea Pig…

One Happy Guinea Pig…

“It was great to see this… to see what is the true giggly and excited me beneath it all…” I (John) am a very happy guinea pig. You see Gaia uses me as a guinea pig to refine and develop her many therapeutic ideas and processes. Yesterday Gaia...
Banana Skins On The Stairs

Banana Skins On The Stairs

Don’t create situations where you know things are likely to go wrong…watch out for that. Yesterday, as I was following Gaia up the stairs to her study, she said -“Careful! Watch the banana skin there!”. And, sure enough, there at the edge of...