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To see a video of me laying lilies on her grave, click here. https://www.truestory.co.nz/revelations/the-ocean-of-wisdom monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb0d64073795a31b330dadb/1597546009565-HABI30HBLCAZ7D90I8X3/anthony-salerno--V9Y_ZY1Qy8-unsplash.jpg Revelations - The Ocean of Wisdom Photo by Anthony Salerno on Unsplash https://www.truestory.co.nz/revelations/the-land-of-the-living monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb0d64073795a31b330dadb/1597547309571-88PZP3KCSLQC7DS11MCG/IMG_3147.jpeg Revelations - The Land of the Living https://www.truestory.co.nz/revelations/the-man-with-the-infinite-eyes monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://www.truestory.co.nz/revelations/on-dying-and-coming-back monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://www.truestory.co.nz/revelations/the-beloved-come monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb0d64073795a31b330dadb/1599354358527-ZWICUXRG8TOXN66TGYV2/39E38CFA-18B4-440D-8712-F3E9DD7BC52E.jpg Revelations - The Beloved Come My first family holiday, arm on my mother’s shoulder, held in her gaze. https://www.truestory.co.nz/revelations/diamond-girl monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb0d64073795a31b330dadb/1596146566884-9AHG7UQPR2HT770PPH6X/B1A9912F-1C83-420D-A290-DF7D1355271E.jpeg Revelations - Diamond Girl The Lesedi La Rona diamond. Photo by Seth Wenig, Associated Press. https://www.truestory.co.nz/loveletters daily 0.75 2026-05-19 https://www.truestory.co.nz/loveletters/through-a-dark-night-to-a-new-dawn-aewpx monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb0d64073795a31b330dadb/6b11d778-3f8c-407a-88fc-9f26ae7ac817/Steafania+Sinclaire+Lightsmith-crop.jpg LoveLetters - When walking in the dark Detail from “Kuan Yin Places the Blue Flame of Freedom into my Heart.” Artist: Stephanie Sinclaire Lightsmith, with permission for use given by her daughter Katherine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb0d64073795a31b330dadb/bc1de6a1-25d5-418e-8ba8-178e4e8a127a/Stefania.jpg LoveLetters - When walking in the dark - Make it stand out I am currently convalescing while on a writer’s sabbatical in Northern New South Wales. And I have been having tree encounters. On the left I am standing under the heart shaped leaves of the Bodhi tree on the terrace outside the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. This Bodhi Tree is a descendant of the tree that Siddhartha Gautama sat under in Bodh Gaya until he attained enlightenment. On the right, in a small Byron Shire NSW town called Clunes, I met this exquisite Tree Being, full of seedpods from last summer, and just beginning to green with new Spring leaves. This tree, I intuit, is such a one as in the painting above, painted by my beloved friend Stephanie. Almost as if the veils thinned and in this moment she came close, placing a blue flame of peace in my heart. Since I have been here my heart has settled, and this area, originally settled by the Bundjalung people, is known as a meeting place - a place of great abundance and healing. I feel it, and am deeply grateful - hence the smile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb0d64073795a31b330dadb/2f43571f-fc28-4a86-9103-f0654947824a/hecate-1342.jpg LoveLetters - When walking in the dark - Make it stand out A detail of a 3rd century CE Roman statue of Hecate (or Hekate), goddess of the Moon and Keeper of the Crossroads. As here, she is often depicted having three heads and bodies - one of maiden, one of mother and one of crone. (Vatican Museums, Rome). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb0d64073795a31b330dadb/49e43aa3-b16e-45f8-8591-174baaa597c7/The-New-Sophia.jpg LoveLetters - When walking in the dark - Make it stand out Photograph and digital superimposition by Catherine Adam of Wonderbird. The composite photo is one of my hands, holding a rose photographed by Italian photographer Simone Dalmeri on Unsplash. 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