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April 20, 2025
What do you do when you’re not living as consciously as you might – when you’re not living up to...
April 12, 2025
The lake is not real. It was dug out by hand in the 1790s, by men with picks and shovels, and...
April 6, 2025
It’s a Thursday, and on Saturday I will be attending a book launch. Our book launch. Apart...
March 30, 2025
In the animal medicine traditions of the nine directions, that which is ‘within’ is that which...
March 23, 2025
We talked about the ones who are struggling and my friend asked, “What’s the impact on you?” ...
March 16, 2025
Truth is yes, and no, and I don’t know. It is the hardest claim to make, to say: I’m telling the...
March 9, 2025
Why do I write? Because it gives me an excuse to scavenge, to collect random details that...
March 2, 2025
What does March mean to you? If February is all about the pilgrimage of snowdrops, March is...
February 23, 2025
February. Friday. 8a.m. In a beautiful room of monochrome shades, black and white, silver and...
February 16, 2025
I sat at my journal one morning, as I do every morning, and on this occasion asked my soul what...
February 8, 2025
We like to think of them as the first sign of Spring, but there are years when they start to...
February 2, 2025
We were asked, as you always are, “what is your dream?” Jim Collins called them BHAGs:...
January 26, 2025
As I walked in the woods, I thought about one who had told me that they always felt worse...
January 19, 2025
Eleventh of January 1942 The Big Man joined the band, with a huge-sound name to live up to,...
January 11, 2025
It is a ‘writing outside’ day, one of those workshop days where I allow myself to be pulled...
January 5, 2025
I start my own new year(s) whenever I feel like it. On my birthday and at the Winter Solstice...
December 29, 2024
I’m going to pick up the end-of-year theme again this week, even though I’m already well into...
December 22, 2024
I started to write about fairy tales and myths and legends. I started to think about how the...
December 15, 2024
My brother called and asked if I was “ready for Christmas”. Then he checked himself and asked if...
December 1, 2024
When Craig died, Claire asked me what I might want of his. The one thing I asked for was an...