Feisty Blue Gecko

• Expect the Unexpected 2 years ago When I first moved to Asia, I quickly became fascinated by the paddy fields. Terraces of glorious, shining green stretching as far as the eye could see. As the paddy started to ripen, the edgy bright green would start to deepen to a dusky yellow and laborious transplanting and thinning would make...
• Expectations, great and ordinary. 2 years ago Where have these past two years gone? We have completed two whole journeys around the sun. The same sun which has risen on 730 mornings and set again in the evening since 13 March 2020. The very day when I closed the door on the outside world. As the sun sinks this evening, I reflect […]
• Welcoming 2022 with three little words 2 years ago Welcome, 2022. Please be kind. Please bring health, happiness and strength across the world. I do wonder, when we look back at the 2020s from a distance of a decade of more, whether we will be able to distinguish 2020 from 2021, and 2021 from 2022 or whether the years will all feel like a […]
• Reflections of 2021 through a three word mantra 2 years ago As the sun sets on 2021, I spend time reflecting on my three word mantra. I can always recognise the year from the three words I chose for that year, a practice which I stumbled upon a few hours before the New Year of 2010 began. That very first three word mantra, recovery, discovery and...
• Spring flowers in autumn? 3 years ago As the summer days move into the past, the garden still manages to gift colour and fruit beyond expectation. and come up with continuous surprises. I was sure I must have seen all of the different flowers and plants which appear throughout the year, but the other afternoon, my eye caught sight of a...

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