I was returning a library book, an activity that always makes me feel like Miss Marple and a general upstanding citizen, when all of a sudden disaster struck. Driving, and using headphones to avoid breaking the law and things, I called my grandmother. Suddenly, just as my grandmother was explaining in detail a recipe for […]
Spending the past few months thinking of an intention each morning with grateful being a word which crops up regularly has massively impacted the way I considered the Thanksgiving holiday this year. Growing up with an American mother in the Scottish highlands who marked the occasion every year with as much turkey panache as befits […]
When I was at school in Paris we worked on the Journey of the neutral mask for several weeks. This was an exercise working with a neutral mask with the objective of being able to move as economically as possible. The point was to create a blank canvas with your body. The journey entailed coming […]
I think pre beads I was in a habit of relinquishing certain aspects of my life quite quickly and melding into someone else’s if I’m perfectly honest. Spending a lot of time on supposition, when trying to understand a certain situation instead of simplifying and just seeing what is actually on my plate and not […]
Recently when I was on a hike up a canyon I watched a hawk circulate. Being a mime and having studied the nuance of animal movements in Paris I began to imitate the birds flight. The first thing I noticed was its incredibly focus; a tiny shift of a wing determines the direction and the […]
Someone once said to me “be careful that you don’t become so addicted to the struggle that you can never let it go”. The whole concept of the struggling artist doesn’t do anything to alleviate this feeling; its almost as though its expected. Which is crazy as there are a lot of successful artists who […]
Let it come to you. Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkje4FiH9Qc Sometimes I find it hard to realize that I don’t need to keep pushing something in order for it to happen anyway. Not sure if that’s from a place of insecurity or lack of trust in life that the road will come upto meet me. But the bottom […]
