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This is a mini post – just a few small thoughts worth sharing so you can spiral up when you feel trapped in a downward spiral. Ingrid Fetell Lee (The Aesthetics of joy) writes about downard emotional spirals and how to break them and spiral up. “Emotions spiral either up or down because they buildContinue reading “Spiral up”

I started this blog and THRIVE.zim education almost 2 years ago, to share my personal journey to THRIVE as an educator. I’ve lagged behind a bit in keeping this blog up to date with my Education related musings and so here I am sharing some back thoughts – more for me – to keep allContinue reading “Back thoughts ….”

I find God in the mountains in the vastness of timeless granite and sun bleached golden grasses. In the towering storm clouds etched over striking blue. In the wilderness and open space. no boundaries no borders just time and eternity today, tomorrow and yesterday.

They’ve always said that the eyes are the windows of the soul. They’ve always said that a real smile is reflected therein. Now, after a year of walking with faces masked, only eyes out, I agree with how true this is; For a soul that is filled with love and light cannot be contained behindContinue reading “eye see”

long enough to see the raindrops on a leaf … slow down to have a bath instead of a shower … slow down to percolate coffee instead of instant .. slow down to hold that once small hand instead or rushing. Slow down to listen and not just hear. Slow down To stretch instead ofContinue reading “Slow down”

2020 came and went and we survived! Yet “survival” is not a word I want to keep on my “go to” word list. When I started Thrive.Zimeducation in August 2019, I had no idea that there was a big sister out there, Thrive Global, who had the same vision but on on much larger, moreContinue reading “Looking back”

Joy left our home. She went walking backwards as we were reminiscing … it was better … when we used to … She left the door open and allowed sorrow in. She journeyed for quite some days, even months until we thought she was gone for good. But suddenly, unexpectedly we found her: in sunlight,Continue reading “On joy”

Purple ponies, iced cup-cakes, hair ribbons, everything girlie, dreamy and pretty. Yet this particular purple proclaims hope it is a purple that causes us to stop in wonder … it makes our adult brains ponder the possibility of a whole purple foliage. These purple blossoms arrest my attention; transport me from my rat-race, inspire poetryContinue reading “Purple Passage”