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Swimming Through Rocks
How I finished one of the toughest foot races in the world: the Swiss Peaks 360
Swimming through rocks is my unique story of adventure and courage, empathy, love, failure, perseverance and teamwork on my long journey towards completing the Swiss Peaks 360 race in September 2024. The race is considered one of the toughest foot races in the world. It is a 380 km journey from Oberwald to Le Bouveret along the Swiss Alps with around 30’000m of elevation gain and loss over 20 mountain peaks and passes.
The story is told in a real-time format so that the reader is able to feel the passing of time, the endless rhythm of climbing and descending and the rollercoaster of emotions, often spilling out in poetry, that I experience over the course of the 146 hours that it took me to complete the race as well as the rhythms and evolutions in states of being that I experienced.
I feel like I swam through rocks and survived to share my tale.
Please join me on this incredible journey.
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Fraught
Poetry and essays
We exist within fraught times; as in we are living in times full of unpleasant things, problems and dangers. It can be argued that it has always been thus and ever will be, and there may be a kernel of truth to that belief. A kernel, though, is not the whole story. I do not commend myself as being in any way a holder of the fullness of that story, merely a part of it. And that part I offer to you to hold.
Do you long for meaning or substance but are drawn moth-like to the words of sanity from one who others know to be anything but?
To be within the forest is more than just a metaphor. Yet, metaphor is able to shape our reality as we stumble forward humble in confusion, in love. Perhaps even to enable an elegant departure from our fraught; a harbour into which colourless waters flow unceasing. We are alone in this together. Now, time to read on.
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Convulsing []
Poetry and an essay
A reworking of Convulsing ().
Reworked for a new time, a new way of being, leaner, awakened.
Exploring the whirlings and swirlings and convulsings of which we are all a part as the stable climate that we had existed in for millenia fades into the distance and we are called gastriloquially to embrace other ways of seeing, and being in the world.
With love and courage, and a few quacks. Ahoy!
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blue blanket
A memoir
blue blanket is the story of my Dad and I coming together unexpectedly in Hong Kong in June 2019, and my Mum's final gift to us.
What we experienced, what we shared, everything. It is our story of a precious moment in time, a momentous time. An intimate glimpse into the final moments of Irene’s life, within the final moments of a Hong Kong perhaps never to return.
convulsing ()
Poetry and essays
Convulsing () is a collection of poems and essays, confusing and chaotic, poetic and lyrical, substantive and transformative. It is a chance to play with and explore different perceptions of the challenges that we now face in our world, with detailed analysis and careful observations from personal experience all over the world about the nature of being human, of the way that we are in relationship with our world, of what we value and why.
The COVID Musings 3
Volume 3: 2022
The final volume in The COVID Musings trilogy is a collection of poetry and essays, musings and transcriptions and conversations on all that has been within and around us in our third year of living in the era of COVID. This is not a book of solutions, it holds no answers but poses many questions. As precautions and fears about COVID began to wane during the year it was clear that nothing was to return to as it was before. Yet much remained unchanged, the same epistemologies, the same metaphors held firm.
The COVID Musings 2
Volume 2: 2021
Confusingly similar and yet decidedly different. The tone shifting in ways both unexpected and not. Polarities became a little firmer, a lot firmer in places, less so in others where beauty stubbornly remained. Hidden processes, hidden assumptions about how we are together apart in life on Earth became more visible than perhaps they were even in COVID year 1. My musings into the 2nd volume continued on from Volume 1: 2020 amidst the waves of 2021; swelling, cresting, freshening.
The COVID Musings 1
Volume 1: 2020
2020 was a year like no other, a new beginning, an ending. So much suffering, and yet the beauty of humanity shone brightly in unexpected places. What was important, who was doing the important work, what we value, who we are... so many questions. As the cracks appeared and the light of another way started to shine through, even as COVID spread across the world in early 2020, a time of reflection began. For me the forests of the Jura were calling. A space to be, rather than do.
