Hello beautiful souls how are you all? As you know I have been on my travels – and boy how illuminating and enriching that time away was. I travelled to Scotland alone on this trip which allowed time, space and quietness to not only recharge, but connect with some ancestral truths with so much more clarity. I didn’t know I needed this time, but I’ve felt a sense of calm since returning back to Tasmania – a calm I haven’t felt for quite some time.
A light was shone on some of the challenging pathways, themes and stories within my family’s journey and I have been writing a lot about this aspect of my trip since I’ve been back. Some of it is a bit too deep and meaningful to share right now, but I might share at a later point in time if I feel others may be helped, healed or inspired by it – or perhaps once I feel the wisdoms or learnings have truly unfolded. For the most part, I can best sum the trip up by saying, I spent treasured time with precious people. The time spent was treasured because of its “ordinariness” doing, every-day activities. This may sound like a contradiction in terms, but I felt a level of contentment – a level of being in the moment – that is difficult for me to achieve naturally. I have found myself over the last few months needing to ‘work’ a little harder at being in the moment.
Having a young niece who skips to the car, just so she can walk around the supermarket with you is like carrying around a little pocket of happiness. Being able to take a walk along the beach with my best friend after her day at work was so therapeutic and so grounding. Gathering seaglass and tiny smooth pebbles that will remind me of home will be forever cherished. These little moments are what’s important in life. The lochs, mountains, castles, bagpipes, heather, whisky and haggis or all magical of course – they frame many chapters of my own story. But the quiet, unspoken ‘ordinary’ moments – they are the adamantine weave, holding hearts and souls together in the most ancient and enduring of webs, no matter age, time or distance.
The message is to notice the ordinary moments when spending time with your friends and loved ones. It is within your power to imbue the every-day moments with contentment, joy, magic, gratitude and wonder. Those of us parted from loved ones cherish the chance to do normal things with them like meeting up for a cup of tea. These ordinary moments are the quiet treasures sitting in the sand, like smooth seaglass waiting to be noticed, picked up and adored, to be treasured and appreciated not because they sparkle – but because to truly hold those little frosted seagems brings calm when seas are rough. The ordinary – a soothing balm for the soul. When it comes down to it, the ordinary moments are what connects us all 
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Sending you all love, light and beautiful sea gems 
