Podcasts

Happiness poems: 3 poems for a happy new year

December 29, 2020

After 2020, we may need help to achieve a happy new year. Sit back and listen to 3 poems about happiness that might help you to find it or notice it squatting in your life.

New Year of the Rat —meditate on new opportunities

January 11, 2020

The old calendar fills me with gratitude like a song. Yosa Buson (1716-1783) It’s 11 January, 2020. Surely not too late to contemplate what the Year of the Rat will bring. In Japan the new year begins on 1st January but nation-wide celebrations continue for about ten days. I understand that rats are not only […]

My 12 New Year resolutions

December 31, 2015

Last year I overdosed on new year resolutions. Within a self-imposed boot camp for the bonus years, I set myself 12 tasks. I thought they were separate tasks but they turned out to be entangled and synergistic. I expected them to be pretty easy but they turned out to be rebellious, recalcitrant and complicated. To find […]