Some stories seem unusual on the surface, but underneath them is a much older and more human question: what does it mean to live spiritually without rejecting your own nature? That is the deeper current running through this story. Beneath the novelty of Laylum Abbey is a community wrestling with embodiment, authenticity, healing, and the…
The year was 2012… a period long predicted as a time of significant and positive change. The Mayans, many centuries before for example, in their much respected South American civilisation, had known that 2012 (in our western calendar) would correspond to the end of a long painful period of change. In 2012 a new world…
“Nine games all, final set”.
As Rodderer and Feddic made their way to their respective chairs their paths crossed at the net. As they got closer to each other their pace slowed and they looked at each other keenly. They stopped. The packed Centre Court crowd went quiet, suspecting a subtle psyching out of the combatants, not wanting to miss a thing. They were not disappointed. Surprised yes, shocked even, but not disappointed by the drama of what happened next . . .
“Baeaa”. Clem’s bleating was pretty much like that of any new born lamb. He too wanted his mothers milk. And, like generations of sheep before him, once fed Clem would go gambolling around the field… full of the joys of spring. He was the ‘new life’, the miracle of birth, the sign of a new time of joy and hope.
Unlike the play of his parents and grandparents before him however, Clem’s skipping and jumping was…
Tibeta was, as usual, doing her best to keep a low profile. With her head down she sat behind the counter of her aunt’s china shop. Surreptitiously she was reading her favourite ancient parables, but carefully enclosed in one of her aunt’s books on business etiquette.
She knew that if Celain caught her reading this forbidden material she’d…
It was a sober atmosphere in the boardroom at Gnuchi and Gnichi. All around the large, oval, glass, table sat the directors and senior managers, each looking as glum as the next. “OK. We all know why we’re here” the chairman opened the crisis meeting “accounts 20% down, no new campaigns in the offering, the whole food sector gone soft and the first 6 months loss since this company started.
Come on, I’m paying you lot a fortune, what are we going to do about it?”
