I am a writer, an avid reader, a painter and traveller. I love languages and history, art and literature and bade adieu to a career as a project finance lawyer to pursue a long-held dream to write. I am originally from Australia and now live in the countryside of S|W France.
The perpetual challenge for a writer is keeping fear at bay and courage sustained. No woubt that applies to anything in life where you invite creativity in. For creativity or the desire for it, creates uncertainty by its very nature. So straddling the two, is a constant mix of pure joy and perpetual frustration.
That is a choice I have happily and defiantly made though and my life is all the richer for it. Notwithstanding, I lose confidence and faith along the way, especially as a writer, but then, it often happens that something unexpected drops... I recall a memory, or I read or do something that restores that faith and belief in my own life and recalibrates my sense of joy and wellbeing.
It is that cycle that I am always seeking to get comfortable with, to relax into and trust.
We are all on this complex path through life, the high and lows, the ebbs and flows, and I hope to always be a learner and a seeker. I doubt I could stop now, even if I wanted to. Books are my constant friend and inspiring motivator, as I keep an eye out for markers - to guide me gently and effortlessly towards my highest purpose, my deepest passions, my heart's delight and all the people and places that feel like home...
Really just here, pondering the miraculous and the mundane... through the written word.
20 months ago
A Review of the TED Talk given by Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity. A letter of thanks for her musings on how to keep fear at bay, as a writer.
20 months ago
Part of El Camino a Santiago. There is a person that inhabits each of us as we play the roles of our lives and yet it fascinates me as to who I become when I am free of the constraints of familiarity, daily lives, jobs and mortgages...
20 months ago
A path well trodden. There is a road that leads to Santiago de Compostela whose history and magic I stumbled upon as a youthful backpacker, the memory of which stayed with me for many years before finally tackling a small part of it...
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