On Wednesday morning I got a message from one of my carers. Eddie Whatsapp’d me a picture of three beautiful kids in brand spanking new school uniforms. He attached a note saying, ‘Thank you for my job. Because of it, I can send my children to school looking like...
So my new year’s resolution is to not have any… again, and if anyone suggests some to me or tells me about their own resolutions, I will patiently nod and wonder why people think that the start of January will enable them to do, what, let’s be honest, they have...
I’m sitting in the new Spencer Fleischer Memorial Sanctuary as I’m typing the last blog of 2024. There is a wonderful sense of peace and beauty here, and I think if I have to describe this year, it might be those two words: peace and beauty. My generation loves to put...
It’s that time of the year again, it’s the second last blog of 2024 and as always, we get a chance to look back and reflect, with gratitude, humility, sorrow and awe. Exactly one year and two weeks ago, Dr Jodi and I signed a contract to partner together and start a...
Usually, I try really hard to hold off the kitch-Christmas-crazy until the first of December, but this year, I bought 6 mince pies for a meeting and because too many people showed up, the pies weren’t served. Like any respectable woman of German descent, I obviously...
Today I feel a heaviness because of all the strange contrasts that fill our lives right now. I am sure the American election, which has brought so much division in the world, has only exacerbated these emotions, but it is more than that. Over the weekend at Zazen, we...
