surrender II

I realize this whole blog is about surrender. You can call it the simple life, the truth, love, gratitude, inspiration, motherhood, creativity, name it what you like, it’s another colour of life and impotent if you don’t fully surrender to it. Believe in it. Trust it. Give your life for it. I think that’s the hard core of…

house hold chores

I wrote a piece for Happiness magazine about finding the spirituality in house hold chores. Oh yes baby, there’s nothing more spiritual than soap & water!  

anaïs again

Make this every single human being’s mission and there shall be peace for this planet.

eight

Eight is the infinity number. It is the lemniscate. The lucky number in China and Japan. The spiritual Eight Day, because the number 7 refers to the days of the week. The number of wealth and abundance in Hinduism. The power of two being 23 (two cubed), and the first number of the form p3, p being an integer greater…

I would say

  I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rain, moistened by all dews. I would roll frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots…

allez les bleus!

So you probably think I’m really serious and holy and stuff? Think again : as a true French chauvinist I’ve been impatient for days to watch France win the European cup, because allez, we do everything best. My favorite expression that sums up French attitude : sont tous des cons, c’est moi le chef (they’re…

me

I have never felt so vulnerable and open as I do these last few weeks. I am restless, I feel it is all too much, but in the midst of it I have never felt more like myself. Or more alone with myself. So responsible and careful about myself. This may sound like a very…

woods

Into the woods, out of the woods. With mon papa in the Nassau woods of Germany picking flowers, wood chips and a gazillion wild raspberries.    

what are you made of?

Just when I got the hang of it and thought : hey, I’m starting to be really good at this simple-thing, my good old friend ‘life’ left the back door open to invite ‘chaos’ in. Those two really like each other. In fact, I think they are secret lovers. Now for once it is not…

charlie chaplin

The children love old Charlie Chaplin movies. Just recently I dug into his life a little bit and found this poem he wrote on his 70th birthday (April 16, 1959). Again – self love – above all – always. ______ As I began to love myself By Charlie Chaplin As I began to love myself…

monday morning

Read this at the start of your day, at the start of your week, at the start of another bad thought, at the start of anything really. We are so trained to think negative about ourselves, to try to ‘improve’ ourselves to be ‘better’,  which just diminishes us more. Rachel Brathen explains it very well….

silence

At least once a week someone asks me what the trick is. What is the solution to stress, anxiety, burnout? What is the way out? The secret is there is no way out. Wanting out is wanting to go back to where you came from. When we find ourselves in crisis we need to understand…