In my February newsletter, I issued a challenge and I repeat it here: 2012 is a leap year. And next Wednesday, 29th February is Leap Day. Let’s take that day and do something wonderful and scary with it! Here’s what I said in my newsletter: Leap Day Now traditionally what this means is that us poor…
Author Archives: Tess Giles Marshall
Being gentle
My writing schedule here at Pilgrim’s Moon is one post on Tuesday and one on Friday. It gives me a structure which keeps my procrastination tendencies at bay. And for today’s piece, I had something good up my sleeve. But life has intervened. I have a bug. One of those horrible cold/flu bugs. You know…
I wish you love
I wish you shelter from the storm, A cosy fire to keep you warm, But most of all, when snowflakes fall I wish you love. Music Leo Chauliac, English lyrics Albert A Beach Sung beautifully here by Blossom Dearie It wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day if we didn’t think about love, would it? And I’m thinking…
How to work with an accountability ally
I’ve long held the view that when men dress well (which I admit can be unusual), they are light years ahead of the average woman in terms of style. Why? Because despite changes in social norms and the rise of the metrosexual, men’s clothing still abides by stricter rules and expectations than that of women….
(Re)gaining humanity
A reader contacted me over the weekend asking for more information about the Enneagram (pronounced any-a-gram), which I mentioned briefly in my last post. What is the Enneagram? I explained that the Enneagram (which I teach) is at best a profound tool for personal and spiritual transformation and at worst, a parlour game in which…
We go bonobo
There’s a passage in Jean Shinoda Bolen’s excellent book Gather the Women, Save the World in which she talks about the little-known bonobo ape. Like chimpanzees, bonobos share 98% of their DNA with us humans, but unlike the male-dominated, warlike chimpanzee, bonobos would rather make love than war and are female-dominated, although this domination is lightly…
We plan, God laughs
To what extent are we in control of our own lives and destinies? There’s an old saying “We plan, God laughs”. Whose fault? Last week I shared a captioned picture on Facebook. It’s the blue one a few paragraphs down, with images of two women. When I first came across it, something about it made…
Not another social network!
Perhaps you’re on Facebook or Twitter or Google+ or LinkedIn or all of them and more. Perhaps you’re not on any social network at all and can’t see the point. Perhaps you don’t know what the hell a social network is (click here!). Are you visual? If you’re overcommitted and feel like you’re going under…
Knitting our lives
Like Miss Marple, I enjoy knitting. I’m not very fast at it, but there’s something about the clacking of those needles and the making of something real out of yarn and two sticks that feels meditative, creative and productive. And knitting is a good metaphor for life, isn’t it? We take the thread of our…
The Joy of Less: a review
I know from email exchanges and discussions that many readers of this blog are in the process of decluttering their homes and their lives. Me too. I think it’s an essential part of the aging process: as we grow older, we feel better when we let go of all that stuff. So this month I’m…
