The Space

February: A month to cherish you and yours

I’m not quite sure I’m ready for January to be over! My month of holidays, birthdays and celebrations has drawn to a close, school has returned for another year and I’m firmly back in the world of routine and reality. How did that happen so fast? Lucky for me, I am living a life I enjoy. I get to do what I love, I am able to work from... [Read more of this article]


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Serenity Space

The supreme act of generosity: Listen!

As I prepared to write Serenity Space for February, I had no idea what I was going to write. Possibly something... 

Which of these will you bring with you into 2010?

How luscious – a new year stretching out before us, a clean slate, a brand new note book waiting for us... 

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Organising Space

How to Cherish the Memories without Holding onto the Stuff

Are the cupboards and drawers bulging? Do containers poke out from beneath beds? Are there boxes gathering dust... 

‘The Top 5′ Way to New Intentions

Don’t you just love this time of year?  The possibilities are infinite.  It seems we have the world at our... 

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Kitchen Table Space

Shaking Off the Shoulds

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the... 

And the Angels Sang

Cradling a coffee to my lips like a prayer in a begging bowl, I sat alone, half hidden behind a pillar and a potted... 

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Relationship Space

Better Relationships – A Treasure Trove of Possibility

It’s everywhere! Here at Calm Space. In many similarly inspiring places across the net. Your local bookshop... 

Do You Hang on TOO Tight to Ceremony?

When you grow up in a Catholic household with strong Irish heritage, there’s never going to be any doubt... 

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Nature Space

A Simple Way to Find Understanding, Peace and Wisdom

Last semester at university I taught the wonderful poem The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes, and I was struck at how... 

Ceremonial Nature

The city of Edinburgh has a riverway which runs through the very heart of the cityscape.  The Water of Leith flows... 

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Design Space

The Bathroom Retreat

I love January. Something about saying goodbye to an old year, and welcoming a new one filled with possibilities... 

A Christmas Dinner to Remember

One of my favorite Christmas Traditions is our midnight Turkey.  Yes,  I know it sounds crazy.  But when Christmas... 

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Sound Space

Noticing Beauty in the Ordinary Moments: Luke Vassella

Ah…. Sweet sweet possibility; even the word itself sounds exciting, fresh and invigorating! If I weren’t so... 

Ceremonies, Rituals, Songwriter Quirks and Weirdness…

When I hear the word ‘ceremony’ I immediately have the chorus of an 80’s band float through my head; well,... 

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Spiritual Space

Spiritual Possibility

In order to discuss spiritual possibilities it is first necessary to discuss ‘faith’. To me, spiritual faith... 

Add a little bit of magic to your Christmas

With Christmas coming up faster than I suspect any of us are prepared for, it is fitting to reflect on ceremony. My... 

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Breathing Space

Your Breathing Space for February

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness, but still... 

Your Breathing Space for January

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how... 

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Living Space

Learning from Loss

Last week we buried one of our own. She was a beautiful and well loved seventeen year old girl who went to school... 

Natural Magic

Dwell in possibility ~Emily Dickinson “I dwell in possibility.”  What a wonderful place in which to live. ... 

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Spa Space

Five quick ways to give your mood a boost

Feeling a bit flat? New Year celebrations long over? Already frustrated by your efforts to keep those resolutions? There... 

Foot Bath Bliss for the Festive Season

After a day baking in the kitchen, whipping up all the delights of the festive season; or trudging the shops looking... 

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Reading Space

Power and strength – celebrating the men in our lives

Fathers, brothers, husbands, sons – we all have or have had at least one of them in our lives together with... 

The path of knowledge leads to truth…inconvenient and otherwise

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself - Anais Nin - In researching titles... 

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