Being human
and life's little mysteries

Ever notice how affected you are by external conditions? There's a favourite topic of this country, the weather, but there are other...

Since I was three years old, I’ve been poked and prodded by strangers more times than I can count, or even remember. Hundreds of blood...

Monday, October 10th was World Mental Health Day. The stigma around mental health, its causes and treatments, and how the stigma itself...

Someone recently contacted me in reponse to my latest newsletter , requesting to be removed from future communications because they...

March, 2020. By the time Covid broke out, I had stopped commuting into London on a weekly basis for work. After four months, it had...

Gurur Brahmā Gurur Viṣṇur Gurur devo Maheśvaraḥ Guruḥ sākṣāt paraṁ Brahma tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ Our creation is that guru (Brahma-the...

Many of you know me to be a practitioner of yoga and veganism, which I have subscribed to at two distinct points of my life: as a late...

As 2021 approaches, we have yet another moment of looking through a portal – a point between A and B that feels, sometimes, like no man’s...

Morning view from kitchen. As The leaves have fallen off this statuesque beech tree, so too I’ve been going through my own state of...

Back to the Future I recently was in Dartmoor, the home to several Bronze Age ruins. Grimspound is the best preserved stone circular...

Lessons learned from the Coastal Path : a summer update Hiking, or rambling as they call it here in England, has always been a favourite...

Hello Friends, We are living through extra-ordinary times. Unprecedented times. Times that maybe even will give rise to social...

…but the real winning is in having the courage to get wet. Bhagavan Das once told me ‘Life is messy, you’ve got to roll your sleeves up...

Most of us have regular opportunities to break out of our comfort zone, a chance to try something new. Whether that is waking up a little...

Richard Pilnick Where do we go when we disappear? What risks would you take if you weren’t so attached to your name, face, physicality,...

Choose any given day on a street corner in a bustling city, and you will see bodies in motion.  All around, sirens scream, motors throb,...

I used to love New Year’s Eve. It was chance to put the challenges of the past year behind me and recommence life with renewed energy and...

A memory of my five year old self exists, sitting in my mother’s giant eggshell yellow Pontiac station wagon on the way home one day from...

Warning: The below story contains a few lines that may not paint a pretty picture. but hey, is life always pretty? On Christmas eve, I...

Four years ago today I got a call that saved my physical body . I can rely only on my fading memory to travel back to that time when...