WISDOM FROM THE KITCHEN BENCH: BENEFITS IN THE BANANA

In the world of consumer health, it’s all about slogans, shelling out the big bucks and the sanctioning of superfoods. It’s about brassicas, berries and a large amount of bullshit. To uncover prominent profundities in the produce and discover a balance in the bent; trawling supermarket isles becomes superfluous, ditching junk mail mandatory and a consumer wellbeing price check required that peels it all back to the bloody basics. If we are in fact what we eat, beyond the dazzling marketing mantras of the goji, quinoa…

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05/04/2021

LIFE RAMBLINGS / perspective / wholeheartedness

ON SACRED COWS: BLINDSIDED BY THE BOVINE

(*Version 2 where the author has not gotten so carried away with complex content). People say cows have no business in horseplay, but who’s ever heard of ‘cowsplay’? And then there’s never been a holy horse or cash horse. We don’t wait until the horses come home, and Seth Godin, didn’t make his millions writing a book called Purple Horse. And although the idea of spiritual horses carrying the human soul to Valhalla sounds more attractive than a cow clomping to the afterlife, it’s clear our…

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14/02/2021

General / LIFE RAMBLINGS

BLINDSIDED BY THE BOVINE: ON SACRED COWS AND HOW WE SEE THINGS.

People say cows have no business in horseplay, but who’s ever heard of ‘cowsplay’? And then there’s never been a holy horse or cash horse. We don’t wait until the horses come home, and Seth Godin, didn’t make his millions writing a book called Purple Horse. And although the idea of spiritual horses carrying the human soul to Valhalla sounds more attractive than a cow clomping to the afterlife, it’s clear our allegiance is still with the beauty of the bovine and the essence of the…

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31/01/2021

General / joy / LIFE RAMBLINGS / WISDOM

JOY-FULL-NESS: Discovering Joy in Digestion and Ditty’s

There are things that stay with you you’d rather forget. There are things you’d rather remember that you forget. Then there are things you recall leaving you wonder why on earth you have. Popping up somewhere from my lurking, murky, otherwise heavily armoured subconscious, is a kitsch, highly cringeworthy, Sunday school song falling into the category of memories we’d rather forget, but somehow seem to want to stick around. “I've got the joy, joy, joy, joyDown in my heart (where?)Down in my heart (where?)Down in my…

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04/01/2021

CONFIDENCE / Determination / Empowerment / LIFE RAMBLINGS / RAMBLINGS

CHANGING GEARS: A DETERMINED MIND AND MUSCLE POWER UP

“The way we see the problem is the problem.” ― Stephen R. Covey There’s a horizon called Easy. It’s unconsciously locked into most people’s dream destinations. You arrive there in comfort, with minimal dis-ease, hardly breaking a sweat or spitting a cuss. It’s the ‘Granny gear’ of all utopias, easy to reach after nominal peddling, pain and gear shifting. Life there is a freewheeling downhill ride. There’s a price to pay for riding ‘Granny gear’, where the bike chain sits in it’s lowest position. Alignment is incongruous, wear…

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10/10/2020

LIFE RAMBLINGS / RAMBLINGS

CHASING THE COCOA BEAN – TIPS FOR THE MELTDOWN MALAISE

Hypoglycemia and chocolate are not friends. There is no specific warning on the packaging, no alarm bells activated with a mouthful, nor radioactive encounter after consumption. They do not meet in a happy place for an ever after, or friendly happy hour. An encounter causes metabolic havoc; an over production of insulin, a sometimes surreptitious or otherwise sudden 1-2-3-combo of shakiness, sleepiness and sweating. Hypoglycemia sufferers know better to stay away from the sirens of sweetness, and lure of the luscious. Rummaging through the pantry on…

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30/08/2020

LIFE RAMBLINGS / RAMBLINGS

REDHEADS ALLOWED – A LESSON ON COURAGE

Three, four, five, six - drop. Three, four, five, six, seven - ouch!Six seconds to burn the match, seven seconds to scald my finger.Eight, nine, ten – drop.Ten seconds and the blazing match plummets into the waters of the toilet bowl below. With five of us under ten years old, deploying matches as an ‘after business air freshener’, or ‘smoke after stools’ strategy, could promptly be critiqued as a mother’s giant leap of faith, trust in the Old Testament tenants of punishment where provoked, flippant folly,…

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04/07/2020

CONFIDENCE / Empowerment / inspiration / LIFE RAMBLINGS / positive thinking / RAMBLINGS / Resilience / Self help / Uncategorized / wholeheartedness

TERMINALLY UNIQUE – Cracking the Code on Self-Worth

Trying to write a piece on a topic that sounds like a disease is complicated. It’s not exactly a draw card, eye catching or essential reading; nor would it be a hit on the Top 10 Blog charts. When the phrase in focus, ‘Terminally Unique’, offers up an oxymoron, the reader is more likely to develop interest in a burnt piece of toast than sort out the conundrum of expression. But unlike charcoal toast, there is nutritional value in unpacking the paradox. For many of the…

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20/06/2020

CONFIDENCE / Courage / Empowerment / LIFE RAMBLINGS / positive thinking / RAMBLINGS / Uncategorized

ALTERED TIME – Capacity in Crisis

The twentieth ‘virus funny’ for the morning pings on my phone. Armageddon emails jam my Inbox. Conversation circles like birds of prey on the down draft, evaluating the state of play, waiting for opportunity or hint of change. House bound vistas framed by an ever- lowering ceiling, declare the faithfulness of an oblivious green canopy. Goodness beyond the pane/pain, of the COVID vortex. Blindsided we batten down hatches as the very buttresses of capitalism are battered, the security of familiarity is struck a blow and…

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22/04/2020

CONFIDENCE / Empowerment / LIFE RAMBLINGS / RAMBLINGS / Uncategorized

REDHEADS ALLOWED

Three, four, five, six - drop. Three, four, five, six, seven - ouch! Six seconds to burn the match, seven seconds to scald my finger. Eight, nine, ten – drop. Ten seconds and the blazing match plummets into the waters of the toilet bowl below. With five of us under ten years old, deploying matches as an ‘after business air freshener’, or ‘smoke after stools’ strategy, could promptly be critiqued as a mother’s giant leap of faith, trust in the Old Testament tenants of punishment where…

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15/03/2020