Feasting, decorating Christmas trees, giving presents, whispers of Santa Claus, telling ghost stories by the fire, slaughtering animals, making pudding, perhaps drinking beyond sanity – what’s your Christmas celebration of choice? Did you know that most of these traditions have pagan origins from well before Christ’s birth was set to 25th December? Long before Jesus…
I had no idea what lay in store for me, but my time at the mini Plum Village in Vietnam was exactly what I needed at this point in my life. The lessons, the gifts, the manifestations that took place over those ten days have had a profound impact on my life going forward. I…
Dear Janine, It has been exactly 6 months since you left this earthly realm. And what a journey you have sent me on. I am writing you from a little Nepali village on a green hilltop. The pine trees stretch up majestically and the birds and the insects are singing away. A cool breeze tenderly…