Madungo Mandala

After a hectic month in Manila, I am out in the mountains for some rest, restoration and… Mandala making! I am staying with Dom-an, a petite Philipina of indigenous Igorot ancestory. Her Kasiyana Peace and Healing Center where I am typing this as the rain pours...

A Mandala of Manila Mandalas

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. Back in Manila, I attended a mandala writing workshop. Yep, ‘attended’. I wasn’t leading it! And, it was on making written mandalas. It was a refreshing and inspiring shift.We sat together in silence...

Me in Sagada with a Rice Farmer Hat

Me and the trail on the way up to the house.—–I am now staying, living, resting and working from the mountains around Saganda, 13 hours north of Manila. I am staying with Dom-an and her family in her peace and healing centre perched on a hill top surounded...

High & Far Away

Baguio – Sagada / busI am high. Out the bus window, I look straight down. And I mean straight down. The bus winds along the side of the craziest, cliff perched, mountain hugging road you can possibly imagine. The view is what you would expect from an airplane...

Where am I?

I really don’t know how to compose this post. Basically it is going up to let everyone know who might have been trying to get through to me in the last few days that I am OK! My iPhone mysteriously died after sending one last very intense e-mail out (ironically...