So what started as an intimate thank you birthday dinner for 6 … mutated into an extravaganza on Monday night when two friends (both chefs) decided they were going to throw me a Moroccan-Babette’s-feast for my birthday 48 hours later… They whisked, chopped, kneaded, strained, baked, roasted (and also used every pan, pot and platter in the kitchen)… I got in the way mostly and my other jobs were to shop a lot and clean sporadically… The talented duo collaborated (may we all learn to do this in such a seamless and creative way in our leadership roles)… and eventually produced a birthday dinner of mythic proportions… From the cardamon and vanilla infused Moroccan cocktails to the fresh pomegranates seeds… homemade za’atar bread with hummus and baba ganoush… a mountain of lamb and quince tagine, whole barramundi with chermoula and a to-die-for chicken dish – bisteeya with phyllo, cinnamon and sugar… they topped their loving performance off with a delicate rice dish with orange blossom and rosewater… oh and I almost forgot… a demonstration of tempering chocolate, creating almond rocher and spice infused truffles… (and everyone got a take home lolly bag)… THANK YOU to Katherine and to Jesse for a birthday of enormous love, care, friendship and generosity … I do hope how I kicked off my new year with such magic will translate into much work and abundance for me this coming year….
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A Mythic Feast
Posted in General, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Resilience, Sacred Feminine, Spirit, Uncategorized, Women on April 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Proud of NZ
Posted in Courage, General, Leadership, Transformation, Uncategorized on April 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Watching the hideous footage of the Boston marathon and then the debacle with the gun debate, there’s this rare moment when the news delivers something we can be proud of… NZ – congratulations on being the first country in the Asia Pacific area to legalise same-sex marriage… It’s worth watching what has been described as an “epic” speech by a member of NZ parliament, Maurice Williamson…
Finally back on air at home
Posted in Courage, General, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Patterns, Resilience, Spirit, Transformation on January 15, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Bedraggled by jetlag and back home after an amazing adventure overseas – a journey that spanned a couple of continents and had a unifying theme of HOME… where we find our internal home and what this looks like… what makes our geographical home our place of contentment… as a migrant I am constantly aware that I have at the very least two homes present in my psyche… and I have a sense that this theme will carry on into the rest of 2013 as my work feels essentially like a return to a sense of home.
So this is surrender…
Posted in Courage, General, Health and Wellbeing, Patterns, Resilience, Spirit, Transformation on August 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spoken often about the need to surrender to process… my words not really springing into personal action however. Yesterday I realised that I finally have surrendered an outcome – there is none of the jarring of resentment or holding on for dear life or wishing for things to be different… there is just a genuine sense of everything being in its proper place and that worrying endlessly about the destination or wishing passionately for an outcome detracts from the gifts of just being present to this moment… For me this feels like surrender.
Which one to choose?
Posted in Courage, General, Resilience, Spirit on May 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
An apple a day…
Posted in General, Health and Wellbeing on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Given that I am now on a health kick with a personal trainer, pilates and the odd yoga practice.. as well as amazingly not feeding my chocolate addiction over the last three weeks… I thought it was fitting then to put a link up to Fruitme… a Sydney-based fruit box delivery company that a friend is involved with… with such a handsome front man I suspect delivery service will go through the roof…
No cold calling for me
Posted in Courage, General, Leadership, Patterns, People and Culture, Resilience on March 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We mostly play to our strengths which at times can be overstated… there are often more revelations in understanding or at the very least having some grasp on what derails you… in terms of marketing myself I have stayed firmly in my comfort zone which is not cold calling (the thought is enough to make me feel anxious)… I like nicely greased, warm and fuzzy introductions (Thank you to all those who have kindly opened doors for me)… However I do have a first… I wrote a brief email to someone that I was interested in meeting… and to my absolute delight and surprise I have a meeting scheduled for the end of March… and no I haven’t changed my fears on unsolicited calling…
It beckons…
Posted in Archetypes, General, Patterns, Spirit, Women on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Talk about beckoning you in – this amazing picture sits on my friend, Julie’s wall… I spent yesterday with her completing an exceptional shape-shifting brand positioning process that has stretched over the week… she has a rare and gentle capacity to concentrate both thinking and feeling that allows you to hone in on your purpose, your values and the essence of what you are offering… it’s been a gift of alchemy for me and I feel like I am finally ready to step onto the bridge towards the misty unknown…
Through the serendipitous portal into the new year
Posted in General, Patterns, Resilience, Spirit on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
2012 is here and usually I feel like I slip over into the next year but this one felt astonishingly present… we said a gentle and conscious goodbye to 2011 and I sat with all the wonderful and meaningful things the year had meant to me (With the last hurrah of my eat, pray love year…of course I ate until I stood still), did my second treasure map, walked Em’s beautiful labyrinth and wanted to glue myself to the enormous magical crystal in the centre, ate some more, slurped bubbles and collapsed into bed… and awoke to a clear beautiful Australian summer day and greeted 2012 with a sense of possibility and serendipity… given I am off to Serendip tomorrow (I only found out yesterday that Sri Lanka was once called Serendip)… I trust this is an oracle of all the magical serendipity that is to be found in 2012 professionally and personally… So to everyone out there an abundant, delicious, sometime-magical and always-healthy new year…
Tramping in hope of a kiwi
Posted in General, Spirit on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was desperate to see a Kiwi on our trip – here we were going to an island south of the south island of NZ renowned for its amazing birdlife living like Douglas Mawson… bracing myself through two flights, a fierce journey on a catamaran across Foveaux Strait… I kinda deserved to see this bird…I prayed to the Angel of Kiwis, I called up the spirits of birds, I wandered about in the dark trying to conjure the elusive creature… all to no avail… except for the younger members of our party who had woken late on the last day, flung themselves loudly onto the track and there in front of them was a kiwi… I was awarded at our celebratory dinner that night the tramper least likely to see a kiwi…
