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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 readingIt’s on a need to know basis
A POEM
I spent a lot of my life trying to explain my actions
However everything magnetizes to me like I’m an attraction
Everything’s always been quite extreme
Carrying, varying bags so full they burst at the seems
Once I’ve learned it I grow stagnant….
I want it all won’t settle for a fragment
I’m such an extrovert
I want to share every new thing I learn with every person I meet….
Yet I’m also such an introvert I need to retreat
I’ve always had an appetite for life
and I need to eat
My feet need to meet with the beat of the street
You cannot learn to the level I seek by remaining still and accepting meek
allowing time to slip by…
second by second
week by week…
I went to write the caption to this post and the above pondering poem came out so I will just leave it right there. Followed with this flow of thought below…
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 readingSpeak of the Things you Seek
There is much power in verbally expressing your hopes, dreams, desires and goals.
When we are young we naturally talk about our hopes for our lives – I want to be a pilot…. I will be this…. I will do that is part of daily conversations but somewhere down the life path we seem to stop stating these dreams and fantasies. Maybe it’s because we feel that we need to ‘grow up’ and face the facts and live in the ‘real world’…. how many times have we heard these kinds of statements through out our lives? And truthfully have you bought into that?
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Create the mess
I woke up one morning in June with an inner knowing I had to take a pottery class. To fully embrace and to help me to understand the lessons of the Creator and the creation. This is something I’ve been researching for a book and program I’m putting together.
When you sit at the potters wheel you need to take great care. You need to give much attention to detail. Just the right amount of water. Keep the wheel spinning at just the right pace. Taking care with the pressure as just the slightest move can make the pot unbalanced and have it tumble over.
Continue readingMake big moves
I spent almost a month in England, twice, with Leon prior to his big move to Canada in October 2019, I’m keen to return to the castles, churches, history and my families home land. I’m first generation born Canadian.
I’ve always been obsessed with castles and architecture ….Arundel Castle (in the first photo) is one of my all time favourites… the rose garden smelled like heavenly bliss. 🌸🌸
I’ve been to London, Manchester, Stone Henge, York and the Yorkshire Dales (we took a ride on the old steam train 🚂), visited Whitby the birth place and inspiration behind Bram Stokers Dracula and Bath.
The last time we were in England we were packing things up, getting affairs settled, settling tenants, saying good bye to family etc. on top of country hopping through Europe to squeeze in a last road trip while Leon had his car.
I remember at the time all of the feelings I had of trepidation and pressure with the move. THIS was a BIG move. If we had difficulties with our relationship etc there was no where for Leon to go if I needed to establish boundaries for me and the kiddos. (blending a family is hard even under the most convenient circumstances) Leon was giving up everything (yet also gaining everything 🥰).
Continue readingIt’s not always so easy to forget
I never ever thought there would come a time that I would get over my ex let alone find someone who could be as kind, romantic, playful and gentle. I felt like no one could ever ‘fill his shoes’ the bar had been set pretty high… and it wouldn’t even be fair to anyone to attempt a relationship. The few times I tried I ended things quickly just feeling discouraged. I considered myself lucky to had even had the opportunity to have a love like I had with my ex.
I felt these things and this way because I wasn’t yet fully healed.
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 readingI sold everything and moved to Mexico to slow travel as a digital nomad. Life update
Well I think you’ll need to grab a drink, get comfy and settle in, it’s been a long time since I’ve updated on my life and status on this blog! There is so much to share about my personal journey and the changes that have gone on over the past few years.
From heart break and the break down of my marriage to the journey of finding freedom and personal independence being single, traveling Europe on a solo trip to then meeting the love of my life a fellow poet from the other side of the globe (England) and a whirlwind romance spanning many countries….from our first, month long date starting in Sydney, Australia with a Royal Caribbean cruise ending with us in England and spanning 6 countries. We got engaged at Aphrodites Rock in Cyprus four months after we started talking and celebrated it in Paris, France. It’s been so magical and rather apt for two poets I’d say.
However I’m not going to get into all of that just yet…but I wanted to share part of what’s been going on in my life to demonstarate the huge role that travel and FINALLY being able to explore the culture and history on this vast planet has made on me and my life.
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