Category: Heartland
Highlights from Girls’ Trip, helping girls connect, have fun and grow
[Girls Trip] helps encourage creativity, and a broader range of thinking for parents and daughters. It raises confidence in both as well. – Linda Russell, mother What do you long for, for a girl you care about? That she has confidence to speak up, and show up, in whatever way […]
making Mothers’ Day meaningful with Trees for Mum – 2014
My mum died from cancer when I was 18 years old. Overnight she slipped away, and our family of five became a family of four. After all the waiting, it was over, and there was nothing to do but slowly start to find our way through the dark. I remember […]
New Year musings with a magnolia planting, and John O’Donahue
“I’ve been squeezed dry,” I told a friend in Sydney yesterday as I hugged him hello. I was invited to his garden on a whim to plant an “80 million year old” magnolia stellata, and celebrate with a glass of champagne. The original Granny Smith orchard once grew where it […]
Making Mothers’ Day meaningful planting Trees For Mums on Stellar Violets verge in 2013
On Sunday, Stellar Violets and friends celebrated and honoured mums, planting persimmons and walnuts alongside Middlesex road. Best Mothers’ Day I’ve had in a long time. A beautiful morning brought a wonderful turnout of friends and families, some coming and going as the planting took place between 9 and 11am, […]
The Heroine’s Journey by Maureen Murdock
Stumbled across an author called Maureen Murdock this afternoon. I wasn’t a paragraph into the synopsis about her book The Heroine’s Journey when I burst into tears. Maureen is my mum’s name. And the idea of mapping the contemporary woman’s psycho-spiritual journey resonated deeply. I’ve been quietly experiencing feelings of […]