Trisha Lord
... wonder will go into hiding like a shy animal
Safety, honesty and welcome – the servants of encouragement! Isn’t that a beautiful idea? Many of us who are engaged in creating...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 15, 20231 min read
Giving thanks for abundance
What a master Rumi was at spotting the camouflaged notion, so easily overlooked. Stop for a moment, upon reading this, and let yourself...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 14, 20231 min read
Our feelings ... become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for ...
I have been on a deep dive in the exploration of loss and grief in the last while, and have been encountering the notion that we are...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 14, 20231 min read
Feelings ...
If we really choose to, we could all imagine what the honest exploration of feelings would have involved for someone like Audre Lorde, a...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 13, 20231 min read
Courage is fear that has said it's prayers ...
This made me wonder about “prayers”. What is my equivalent? How might I incorporate the practice of whatever I could think of as...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 12, 20231 min read
Nothing is worth more than laughter ...
I am so thought-provoked by this idea: that it is strength to laugh, and be light. Recently, I have been exercised by the need to...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 11, 20231 min read
Grief and Gratitude are kindred souls ...
I am so grateful for getting older. Getting older is also given to us by grace, I believe. It means that there have been, at least in...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 8, 20231 min read
Make visible what, without you, may perhaps never have been seen
Isn’t this a lovely idea? I like the idea of heading out into my day wondering what may never be seen unless I make it visible and...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 7, 20231 min read
Dwell in possibility ...
I have been blessed with a lifetime of extraordinary lesson plans. One of which was entitled “How to Create Possibility.” It goes like...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 6, 20231 min read
What is life?
This reminds me of that space-creating awareness that always comes when I am able to generate perspective: that in the greater scheme of...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 5, 20231 min read
It began in mystery ...
Birth and death, uncontrollable thresholds of mysterious power: I am moved by the articulation that what lies between those portals is...
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Trisha Lord
Sep 1, 20231 min read
What incredible power we have ...
Isn’t this an inspiring thought to walk out into your day with? Simple yet profound: “I think today, I’ll spend my day, making other...
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Trisha Lord
Aug 31, 20231 min read
Our challenge is not to choose between ...
What a profound paradox we inhabit as human beings: deeply fragile and yet so strong at the same time. Cultivating the courage to open...
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Trisha Lord
Aug 30, 20231 min read
We are made to tell the world ...
I have been tested of late. There have been people who have treated me in ways that have made it very easy for me to want to exclude...
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Trisha Lord
Aug 29, 20231 min read
Live in the present …
Yes! The future will unfold, and if we could measure what percentage of it we actually have control over, I bet we would spend less time...
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Trisha Lord
Aug 28, 20231 min read
Where you stumble, There your treasure lies ...
Two thoughts sprung to mind immediately upon reading this. The first – “that’s true!” The second – “I wonder if that’s true?” The first...
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Trisha Lord
Aug 3, 20234 min read
“Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future” ~ Steve Miller Band
If you are a young person reading this newsletter, or at the very least a person who has not yet started to think of themselves as “old”...
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Trisha Lord
Jul 6, 20235 min read
I am in love
In what could be turning into a trend, this evening before sitting down to write my newsletter I happened to be out walking with a...
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Trisha Lord
Jun 8, 20235 min read
I was feeling oddly desperate.
I was walking on Muizenberg beach this evening, as the sunset on the Atlantic side of the mountains and the False Bay sky was bathed in...
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Trisha Lord
May 4, 20235 min read
What’s your favourite thing about your work?
What’s your favourite thing about your work? Is it really possible to have an absolute favourite thing? I think this notion is,...
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