Risk taking is something that has always come natural to me. Doesn’t make me special, some even think it’s because I am stupid or lack emotional intelligence.
Snow Has Been An Occasional Visitor In My Life
By the time we reached the resort it was a full on blizzard, and inches of snow on the ground while Melbourne sweltered in Summer temperatures.
Watching Ants In Awe Of Their Supernatural Abilities
These ants were on a new level, they were waiting while you ate to remove the remnants, & if you took a break your food would Rumba across the table.
Balance On Two Wheels Has Never Been In My Wheelhouse
In balance I released the clutch, revved the engine, & performed an elegant bunny hop (a really big one) into the centre of a big bunch of prickly bushes.
Does Calling Yourself a Human Rights Defender Actually Make You One?
I’m all for self-determination but the prolific use of the term Human Rights Defender is somewhat puzzling. It’s now used more as a shield from accountability.
Massaging Heroin Addicts Changed How I See Healing
Part of my training for natural therapies included massaging, or in my case treating people in community as a way to connect, and better understand our studies.
No Quick Escape When Trapped In a Coffin Sized Tent
In South Africa we camped in coffin sized tents, they have enough room for an average sized person with the top of the tent a couple of inches from your nose.
Meeting Metallica @Big Day Out Festival
My massage teacher D is the cousin of Kirk Hammett, lead guitarist of Metallica. When we had been learning from him he had mentioned it in passing.
Here’s Talking Cobras & Me: Who Scared Who More?
I wanted to live on a farm, it didn’t occur to me it was a snakes natural habitat, especially with the rice fields, and Cobras being the solid inhabitants.
How Death Took My Person Then Debt Destroyed My World
We are conditioned to think of death as a serene moment. Our TV’s tell us lies about hospitals, and how people die, and from my experience it’s all crap.