Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy

Whether we realise it or not, there’s a good reason behind everything we do or don’t do, every choice we make or avoid. We can’t go forward if we don’t know what’s holding us back. Knowing

The barbecues, the picnics, the sleepovers, and adults’ cocktail parties upstairs, the children’s parties in the basement recreation room, the plays performed on the patio, the feelings of love, security, delight, excitement, and wonder—all the sudden joys of childhood captured forever.

That’s because, to the eye trained to see beauty, nothing is invisible. What looks empty to the rest of us appears to the artist’s eye as full, a complete mystery in its own right. The space surrounding the bowl of fruit is as important as the bowl itself if Wholeness is to emerge.

Saraha’s song of praise. “Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places … I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.”

Close your eyes for a moment and imagine that you are walking through your front door. In your ideal version, what does the room look like?

Magic flows through us, mystery infuses every encounter of every day.

shut out the world by sinking into the tub. To my mind, baths are as necessary for spiritual replenishment and centring as is prayer and meditation.

Spirituality, simplicity, and serenity seem to be a sacred trinity; three divine qualities of the orderly soul.

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Would you revise the play, market the column, apply for the grant, attend the audition, rent the kiln, if you knew that failure always precedes success? Failure is a crucial part of the creative process. Authentic success arrives only after we have mastered failing better.