A new year. A new word of the year. I start the process of choosing one in December. The phrase that came to me then was ‘open to receive’. About two weeks later I got the second edition of Cosy Quirky’s (Ankita) The Travelling Souls Mail Club envelope. In it,…
Today I’m lookng back on my Word of the Year 2025 and sharing how it went. When I chose strong as my word for 2025, I wasn’t thinking about grit or pushing through. I was thinking about something quieter and steadier. A strength that could hold me rather than demand…
I bought Wintering last year, drawn to its promise of gentleness and permission to slow down. But when I tried to read it, I couldn’t. I started and stopped, set it aside, picked it up again—and failed each time. I didn’t have the patience or the quiet the book seemed…