My long covid long story

I hear my mind say – “Don’t just stay there, it won’t get better, get up and try, it won’t get worse!”

I ask, and when will it be over? I hear an answer, I don’t know! So I get up, to brave it through another day, because not knowing is hope enough, to keep going…

Doggie under my table

At a cafe, facing the four mile beach, across the street at Port Douglas. I sat, sipping a glass of mango smoothie, melting in the summer heat, trickling down beads of water on the outside, into my palms.  I pulled in my legs to give dear doggie under my table, some space. She appeared to be asleep.  For company… Continue reading Doggie under my table

I can, because I want to

At the end of a session with 12-year-old footballers, on outdoor career options, a girl asked, do girls trek up mountains too? I said yes they do, it’s common. To that, another girl jumped in and said “because girls are equal, because we can do anything that the boys can? Right ?” I said, no… Continue reading I can, because I want to

Me vs. Rejection

A small Buddha idol, kept apart far away from the rest of the idols

There is no failure, it is only learning, it’s feedback. That’s true, but at that moment, the very moment of rejection, there is so much action in the scene playing inside the head, that this learning takes time to surface up. After living a very protected life under a shadow of one big giant organization… Continue reading Me vs. Rejection