Joy is a strange, unfamiliar, important word. I wonder is joy a distant cousin to its much better-known relative, happiness? Whilst happiness has often been commodified by the marketplace, packaged and sold, joy seems wilder, stranger, harder to contain. I just returned from a joyful hour’s walk with a friend. What made it joyful? It was natural, emergent not manufactured. The talking ebbed and flowed. We paused along the way, periodically dropping into silence. Pain mingled with amazement, wondering with listening. Oh, and ... Read more

When things in the world become chaotic & confused, when the clamour & noise of insistent voices becomes too much, and when thing fall part, it's then that our connection to the still point matters most. What is the Still Point? This is the place of inner stillness and wisdom, calm amidst the storm, inner knowing, access to the Source that gives birth to all things and all beings. We name this place differently but we know it exists, an abundant stream of grace, ever present ... Read more