If you’ve been reading this blog since the beginning (waaaay back on 6th March 2019 – well it feels like way back!) you’ll know I enjoyed a 2 week rafting and hiking trip through the Grand Canyon in the summer of 2018. The hiking parts…
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For this week’s Midweek Musical Magic (MMM) I’ve chosen the song Humble and Kind written by Lori McKenna and sung by Tim McGraw. “Hold the door say please say thank you Don’t steal, don’t cheat, and don’t lie I know you got mountains to climb…
A blackbird signalling a new day Fresh, green buds along a hedgerow The certainty and magic of a sunrise A sense of gratitude for a sunset whose orange glow warms the end of the day Thank You The beauty of a single wild flower “Hello,…
Some people like learning. Some people like reading. Some people like writing. Some people like listening. Some people like all those things. Music is one channel through which they can all be experienced. It is also a fabulous medium to stimulate thinking, feeling and doing…
Last week, I enjoyed 3 days in the peaceful Somerset countryside at a “channelling extravaganza”. Yes, I know; me doing a channelling extravaganza! – what a shift, what a revelation, what has happened to Bev? What is channelling? Like many things, channelling can be defined…
I wonder if you, like me, remember seesaws in the playgrounds of your youth? Do you remember that constant motion of rising and falling with a partner being your seesaw counter balance? It was much more fun to be in that seesaw motion than to…
“The whole world may be choked by thorns but I am wrapped in roses. The whole world may lie in ruins but my heart sings ecstatically” Rumi. I wonder if, like me, you often feel the World appears “choked by thorns” or “lies in ruin”.…
This year I decided to set intentions rather than resolutions. I was curious to see if that seemingly semantic shift might deliver different results. Intention, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is defined as “determination to act in a certain way” MacMillan dictionary defines intention as “a plan…
Prompted by William’s comment on my blog Exploration is the First Step to (Self) Discovery, I felt drawn to explore curiosity a bit further. Defined as; Desire to know or learn – inquisitiveness. Desire to know about people or things that do not concern us –…