Category: writing
Yes, Of Course It’s ALL About Me.
People often ask me what I write about.
Artificial intelligence? Travel? Philosophy? Language? Neurodivergence? Ageing? Humanity? Science? Culture?
The honest answer?
All of those things.
And none of them.
The subjects may appear to constantly change, but my fascination never does.
For as long as I can remember, I have been captivated by one question above all others: what does it mean to be human?
Not just biologically or historically, but experientially.
How do we think? Why do we perceive the world so differently? How does language shape our understanding? What invisible structures connect seemingly unrelated ideas? What exists around us that we simply haven’t yet developed the tools, or perhaps the vocabulary, to perceive?
Those questions have fascinated and followed me my entire life.
Long before I travelled.
Long before artificial intelligence.
Long before I knew words like intertwingularity or sonder.
I think it’s important to clarify that travel didn’t create my humanity curiosity.
It helped to actualize and fulfilled it.
I never wanted to collect passport stamps or simply say I had “been somewhere.” I wanted to stand where history unfolded. I wanted to hear languages I couldn’t yet understand, experience the many cultures that I had deeply researched about, and witness humanity and decipher societal narratives with my own eyes instead of solely through someone else’s interpretation or teachings.
I’ve never truly trusted accountabilities from knowledge that is not complimented with experience.
That is why my writing moves so freely between biology, anthropology, archaeology, language, psychology, philosophy, travel and technology. To me they have never existed as boxed in, separated disciplines. They are different windows looking out onto the same extraordinary mystery.
That’s probably also why I have never felt like I comfortably fit inside neat little boxes.
I don’t naturally think in categories.
I naturally think in relationships.
One idea flows to another. A conversation about dolphins becomes a reflection on communication. Communication becomes language. Language becomes artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence becomes interpretation. Interpretation becomes philosophy. Philosophy inevitably circles back to humanity.
To me, none of that is a distraction. It is how my mind explores. It quite excites me to feel a natural deep dive coming on.
For much of my life I wondered whether there was something unusual about the way I thought. Today, I know that it is my way of seeing and interpreting this amazing world.
Over the years, I’ve also come to notice that we confuse a great many things in our culture.
- We mistake self-observation for self-absorption.
- We mistake introspection for narcissism.
- We mistake confidence for arrogance.
- We mistake curiosity for eccentricity.
They are not the same thing.
Maybe that is why writing about myself has occasionally been misunderstood by some. I’m not writing because I believe I am the most fascinating person on Earth (however, I have had some pretty extraordinary experiences). I’m writing because I am literally the only consciousness (to date, who knows what is to come in the future!) that I will ever experience completely from the inside.
Your life is just as rich.
It is just as complex.
And definitely just as worthy of exploration.
But there’s only one problem, I simply don’t have direct access to it.
Continue readingA Familiar Corner of the Internet
It’s strange returning to a place that once felt so familiar.
It’s been five years since I sat down in this corner of the internet. Five years since I thought I was ready to start sharing again but little did I know it was the beginning of an incredible lived in, uprooted epic world cultural travel immersion.
I fondly think back to the time when I shared my thoughts simply because they wanted to be written. Way back in 2013 when this blog began, when I felt the call and the pull to write.
Life, however, has a way of taking us exactly where we need to go. Especially if we really lean into it.
Five Years, 45 Countries, and the Unknown
Since I last wrote here was with some updates, Leon and I packed up our lives, sold almost everything we owned, and stepped into the unknown. We’ve spent the last five years slow-travelling the world across 45 countries as digital nomads, living across countries, cultures, and continents. I also have spent time teaching ESL and tutoring/mentoring. Talking to over 2000 people across multiple countries in over 5,000 1 on 1 conversations.
I didn’t just collect passport stamps, I collected conversations, perspectives, contradictions, grief, joy, history, silence, and stories. I have had epic 5 star excursions and experiences and more fondly I have had incredibly diverse conversations and experiences that I never, ever could have imagined.
My journey crossed the lands of epic and fallen empires, culturally diverse people and ancient geography.
But above all my journey was about humanity.
The Search for What Makes Us Human
The more people I met, the more fascinated I became with what makes us who we are.
Why we believe what we believe.
Why societies evolve the way they do.
Why history repeats itself.
Why some people seem willing to surrender their thinking willingly while others spend their lives questioning everything. The further I travelled across the world, the deeper I travelled into the human mind.
Looking Back at 2013
Looking back now, I smile at the woman who started this blog in 2013. Check out my first post or my about me page to read my original intentions for this blog.
She simply wanted the courage to call herself a writer. She was hungry. She felt the faint calling.
She had no idea where those words would eventually lead. Honestly sometimes I still can’t believe it myself.
Where the Words Are Going
Continue readingRe: Write
I feel things.
Deeply.
I always have.
Maybe it’s because I’m a scorpio.
Maybe it’s just me.
Maybe it is part of my destiny?
I have also had to learn to release things.
I have had to learn to release my grip on life and people.
Release things that no longer serve me and my higher good.
I don’t always know what that is but I know my soul does.
Sometimes the release is a good cry.
Sometimes it’s making wild love. (Also scorpio in me)
Continue readingWrite of the things you seek
Not only do I believe that writing is one of the best forms of self therapy and self help/care there is but I ALSO believe the same to be true in the manifestation of goals and desires to bring forth your ideal vision for your life.
I encourage you to write it down. Write it all down! Your hopes, dreams, fantasies things that seem to be too big to be true. From the places you’d like to visit, to your ideal partner or career…what the best of a best friend or mate would be for you.
Continue readingWant to see a major shift in your life? Try replacing “I’m sorry” with “Thank you”.
I don’t know if it’s an over all Canadian thing….being from the land of bumping into car doors and apologizing… lol but some how I became that “I’m sorry” person. It came as a surprise to me as most of my younger life you’d be hard pressed to hear me apologize for anything. But eventually I chose to learn about both accountability and forgiveness. But here’s the thing, sometimes we can end up swaying too far and become over accountable.
But too much apologizing also leads to a negative mindset of self…a self blame mentality…and even a hyper focus on self.
Continue readingAnd so a New Chapter to a New Year begins. More to come. Cheers!
Use Me
Suppressed
Suppressed
She drifted there
Buoyantly alone
The water gently caressing the known
Carrying her down the suppressed river
Recollections of her life made her shiver
She arose from her reverie,
Her backside wet from dismay
Her river of tears on display Continue reading
To Be (followed by a Poetry challenge)
DO SOMETHING!
I have been spending a lot of time doing things worthy of writing about lately, or at least I hope they are worth reading!
One thing I’ve learned about writing and most especially writing poetry, is that you need to take time and some times extended time to immerse yourself in life, love and laughter to continue to be inspired to write!
I am happy to share that I have been feeling the desire to write resurfacing, so here’s hoping for some soon to be new inspired words.
What have you been immersed in lately?
Cheers!
Writings of a Mrs 