I am sitting on the veranda of our summer house looking at the blue sea over the trees and the bushes.  Farther into the view are the mountains of Chios island.

This corner of the world, this little corner here is somehow mostly protected from the sounds of civilisation.  Even though there are houses right next to us, and even though there are hotels and some other houses a bit in the distance, they don’t intervene – rather they cannot seem to make their voices heard among the wind, the waves and the cicadas.  The wind has always been the signature sound of this region and combined with the sea and the hypnotising song of cicadas, it creates a vacuum or a tunnel that pulls one into a different dimension. Read More

i let the wind in the trees
the soft brushing sound
find the me in me

that me that is gentler
that me who knows –
to move with the wind
is easier, Read More

let me tell you the tale
of this free soul who dared
to stay free as long as she could
and people were scared
and people amazed
they wished they were, but impossible it looked Read More

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known. Read More

The other day during my singing lesson, I was trying to hit some high notes in a song, when my vocal coach and dear friend Randy Esen, interrupted saying “try to relax your throat and not force, instead of pushing and trying to control, try relaxing and letting the notes flow out” and when I did that, the notes and the song almost effortlessly came out.

Just like this in life, we find ourselves trying to control and force some things or people to change or happen by trying to force, correct, make “right”.  This way our minds think we can “help” them or “save” them from what “we” feel is supposedly “not good for them” or “wrong”. Read More

Oh how I love
the beauty of no-thing

the rain outside washing me inside

sitting with this emptiness
I know
I am able
and ready

 to receive it all.

elif

One of my dear friends said that the whole world is like a terminal nowadays.  And I would agree to that – every person, every thing, country, company, group is in transition from one state to another, one way or another.

Transitions can be challenging, transitions can be chaotic, transitions can be earth-shaking and… transitions can be exciting, expanding and even fun.  In such a rapidly changing time how do we stay centered, keep our balance and keep surfing? Read More