Welcome to my Any Other Business section. I decided to add this page towards the end of 2025, when I was revamping my website. I had previously removed my blog because it felt extraordinarily demanding.
It wasn’t. That was just my perception, but rather than change my perception I decided to take a different approach, and this is it. More of an unblog, or non-blog, my intention is to add to it when I have something to add, whether that’s my own musings, a picture or a quote, or anything that doesn’t quite fit in on any of the other pages…. So, yes, you could call it a blog, I suppose.
Spirituality
In my ‘Reiki-Spiritual’ section (on the Reiki page) I talked about the importance of finding a like-minded community to talk and share and learn and grow with. I’ve been lucky enough to find this at various points on my own personal spiritual journey, and those folk who are drawn together in this way are rarely at the same point on their journey – or even partaking in the same spiritual practices – and they don’t need to be. That’s the beauty of this lovely community: we all learn from, and teach, each other.
Exploring spirituality doesn’t have to mean following a religion – most people I’ve met along the way have chosen not to, but those who do seem to bring the best parts of their religion to a multi-cultural, multi-spiritual group. We can be a bit quirky, considered a bit woo, but we’re also broad-minded and down to earth and full of laughter. It takes all sorts and we are all that. I’ve dipped in and out of many such groups over the years, sometimes connected to my interests at that time, sometimes to my broader interests. It may be just for a workshop or two, or perhaps a small gathering on a regular basis. Some continue, some fall away once that path has been explored. Constant movement, constant wonder. You can be spiritual alone – I often am – but that sense of coming together, that sense of a shared community, it’s a real gift, and I would encourage all to go out and find your tribe, whether it’s a spiritual one or any other shared interest, because it will help sustain and nourish you. Humans are fundamentally social creatures, though we sometimes don’t feel it and we sometimes forget. It goes back to balancing energy. We can have too much of one thing (maybe that’s alone time?) and not enough of another (maybe that’s social time?) so remember to continually top up what is depleted and to reduce what is excessive. Find that harmony. Yin and Yang.
Alternative ‘About Me’?
I was thinking about what to say about myself here, and found myself in the familiar territory of listing all my various roles, like a CV. I have been many things, it’s true. Worn many hats. But did any of those labels describe my essence? Who I really am? They were all versions of me, no doubt, and all have helped me develop and grow into the person I am now. But if I list those here for you, will I be seen as those things, rather than the person I am now? And who knows what hats I might choose in the future? Should I include potential future me as well? Surely if past me is relevant then future me must be equally so? Well, I’m not going to list my CV. I’m going to try to paint the essence of me today. I might not be the same tomorrow. Everything changes. Each minute experience changes us in some way, and the bigger experiences can change us in bigger ways. You all know this. I don’t need to tell you.
In my window I have a disco mirrorball, and when the sun shines from a certain angle the tiny mirrors cast a myriad of little rainbow lights across the floor, ceiling, walls and furniture, and if I spin the ball, the little rainbow lights dance around the room. It’s glorious to watch! 
Sometimes, I sit in the window to do my thinking, and I did this today, to think about what I wanted to write here. As soon as I got up there on the windowsill and pulled my legs up, sitting facing the mirrorball at eye level, I could see myself reflected in all those tiny mirrors. But here’s the thing. They were all only one little part of me – maybe an eye, a nose, a mouth, part of my hand, my clothing, my hair – and they were not cohesive like a regular mirror, these were kind of mixed up and in odd places, like a Picasso painting! And, if I spun the ball, all those parts of me flashed past and then regrouped in not quite the same places, as though the act of spinning, my movement, the sun, the passing of seconds, something, had altered the image of me just a little. I was not the same as I was before. I was all there, of course, every single part of me, just not in exactly the same formation. Still multifaceted. Maybe a couple of extra facets I hadn’t noticed before. Maybe a couple I had shed since the last time I looked closely at the ball. And all part of the dancing, rainbow-hued, textured, shiny, reflective, multifaceted and wondrous whole. It was quite a moment, seeing myself in that way, my very own glitterball version of me (which, when you come to know me, might seem appropriate). À la Picasso – and I’m happy with that.
