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A moment of stillness to pause and return to our breathing. Bringing our thoughts back to the here and now is vital for our resilience. The present moment is all we truly have. May your evening be peaceful, my friends. 🌳❤️ #nature #life #calm #peace #mindfulness #meditation #trees #photography

Summer reflections at Kynance Cove, Cornwall. 😊 #Cornwall #beach #nature #summer #ocean #sky #calm #peace #life #sea #photography

Day’s end at Poly Joke, Cornwall. 🌺 #Cornwall #nature #sunset #flowers #calm #peace #life #photography

To the sea. 🌊 #Cornwall #CarbisBay #sea #ocean #beach #summer #nature #calm #peace #photography

Optimism. 🌺 #nature #spring #blossom #tree #flower #life #calm #peace

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Small acts of kindness ripple infinitely outwards. When we begin with kindness towards ourselves, we find capacity for kindness towards others. We may not see the impact of our kind act, but its energy will touch many, for we are connected with all things. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊

I love this. 😊 #poetry #hope

Spring training starts this weekend which means baseball on the radio most nights until October. And that makes me very happy! Love my St. Louis Cardinals ⚾️ 😊 #baseball #mlb #ForTheLou #Cardinals #StLouisCardinals

祝您农历新年快乐！愿您幸福安康！ Happy Lunar New Year to all my Chinese family and friends. 🐴 ❤️ 🇨🇳 #ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear #China

Cloud surfing. ✈️ #travel #fly #aeroplane #weather #clouds #sky

There is a Buddhist saying that ‘Overthinking is suffering twice for something that has not happened once…’ Our mind creates storms and then we fear the rain. Please remember that our thoughts and fears - though understandable - are just passing clouds. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊 #life

Back to work today after 3.5 weeks travelling, and time to put into practice my own advice with regards mindfulness. Know that your best today is good enough. Do not judge yourself by others or by the anxieties in your mind. Our thoughts are not reality. #nature #calm #mindfulness #life #peace

We flew to Japan and China with China Southern Airline, which meant our route could fly over Russia (saving 3 hrs of flight time). One of the additional benefits was that we got to see the Ural Mountains. ⛰️

Sundown in Guangzhou 🇨🇳 #China #travel #life #explore #photography

Travelling through South China meeting family and new friends. The country and their psyche are fascinating. A people of peace. A people accepting of the state restrictions for the state also provides for them. A people who, inwardly, live by Confucianism and who see the West as an ally not a foe. 🇨🇳

The beautiful Guangxiao Temple in Guangzhou, China. I wish the video could convey the wonderful scent from the flowers. A stunning oasis and place of peace in the middle of a bustling city with 18.8 million people. 🇨🇳 #China #Buddhism #life #nature #calm #peace

It’s our last night in Japan after two wonderful weeks of cultural joy. Tonight we cooked up a meal of eel and rice, sea bream and beans and pumpkin, with Pak Choi and mushrooms, all from the local market. Tomorrow, we head to China for more discovery. Thank you Japan for everything. We will return.

We had a dusting of snow here in Osaka today, and the late winter flowers looked especially pretty. The herons by the pond in our park were unbothered and just carried on with their day. 🇯🇵❄️ #Japan #life #travel #photography

Osaka 🇯🇵 #Japan #travel #life #photography

Osaka 🇯🇵 #Japan #travel #life #photography

Whilst travelling, I am listening to Renegades: Born in the USA with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen from 2021. If you have not listened to it, I urge you to do so. If you have listened to it, I urge you to re-visit it in the light of today’s political and social crises. It is raw yet hopeful. 📻

Higashi Honganji Temple, the world’s second largest wooden building. Absolutely magnificent. The interiors are stunning. (Sorry, we were not allowed to take photos inside). It is a Shin Buddhist temple. 🕉️ #Japan #Buddhism #travel #life #explore #Kyoto

Kyoto nights 🇯🇵 #Japan #Kyoto #travel #explore #life #photography

Touring the Shugakuin Imperial Villa and gardens, up in the mountains on the outskirts of Kyoto. A breathtaking walk in the late winter sunshine. 🇯🇵

Kyoto sunset 🇯🇵

If you need a moment of calm in your timeline, pause with me awhile in the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 🌳 #Japan #nature #lake #trees #calm #peace #life #mindfulness #photography

A day of visiting ancient shogun and emperor palaces and temples today in Kyoto. Here is the Kinkaku-ji temple - an old shogun temple (the samurai were zen monks as well as warriors). This temple is covered in pure gold leaf. Kyoto was the capital of Japan until 1869. 🇯🇵

On the Bullet Train from Odawara to Kyoto. 🚅 #Japan #travel #life #explore #vacation

We are staying in the mountains in Hakone. The main way of travelling from town to town is by rope car above the sulphur steam pumping out from the volcanic landscape. We took the rope car from Togendai to Sounzan and on to Gora. A fantastic way to get about! 🚠 🇯🇵

Plum blossom 🌸 🇯🇵 #flower #nature #life #calm #peace

We are staying in a traditional ryokan (Japanese traveller’s inn). No shoes allowed and you are encouraged to wear robes to relax. And it is very relaxing! 🇯🇵

We have moved on from Tokyo and headed SW to Hakone. Staying a couple of days up in the mountains in a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn). Our room looks out over Mt Fuji. I spent an hour sat outside in a hot spring bath watching the sunset on Mt Fuji. Alone with my thoughts. A magical experience. 🇯🇵

Visited the ancient Sensoji Temple in Asakusa district today. Whilst it was busy, it still had a wonderful stillness to it. 🇯🇵 #Buddhism #Japan #vacation #travel #memories #life

Tokyo nights, part 2 🇯🇵 #Tokyo #travel #life #photography #memories

Tokyo nights. 🇯🇵 #Japan #vacation #Tokyo #travel #life #photography

Monty on the train. That is all. 🐕‍🦺 🚂 #cockapoo #dog #Monty #mansbestfriend

Throwback to early autumn, still with a hint of warmth in the air with cooler winds knocking at the door. If you need a moment of calm, come walk with Monty and me. 😊 #woodlands #trees #nature #walk #seasons #life #calm #peace #photography #mindfulness

The ducks by the woodland pond greeting us this morning on the early dog walk. A joyful interaction. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 🦆 #nature #woodlands #ducks #walk #life #calm #peace

Even though it is 18 minutes long, I truly urge you to listen to Mark Carney’s full speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday. It’s a speech for our times. Eloquent, intelligent, brutally honest, and historic. If only our own timid leader could be this strong. 🇨🇦 youtu.be/kDMyeGQm3NA?...

If you need a moment of calm on your timeline, stand with me for a moment and bathe in nature’s serenity. Be kind to yourself and know that your best today is good enough. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊 #nature #countryside #fields #sky #calm #peace #winter #life #mindfulness

There is a calm in the woodland rains that grounds me and makes me feel closer to nature than at any other moment. Amidst all the chaos in the world, nature still provides the most efficacious balm. 🌳 #nature #woodlands #rain #trees #life #calm #peace #walk #photography

Just listening to some speeches from Obama’s Presidency. Feel a little tearful. Oh, how we used to have intelligent statesmen with an intellectual tongue. Where discourse was respectful and bounded by the richness of the English language. We took it for granted. And now we long for it. 😔 #Obama

The fields are resting now… A poem I wrote on the dog walks yesterday and today, trying to capture my joy when nature rests its weary bones in winter. 📖 #poem #poetry #write #writer #amwriting #winter #nature #walk #life

As we head into a new week, please remember your best is good enough. Do not be fooled by the imposters of ego or status - they have no substance. Kindness is the greatest trait. May your week be peaceful, my friends. 😊 #nature #sunset #life #kindness #ocean #sky #calm #peace #photography

There can be no ‘up’ if there is no ‘down’. No ‘left’ without ‘right’. All things are relative. Equally, despite these chaotic and troubling times, the evil cannot exist without comparison to good. There is more good in this world and it will prevail. Embrace each other. 😊 #kindness #life #peace

There is an earthy feeling being in nature at sunrise. An ephemeral moment of our true being, stripped of modern day distractions and pressures. 😊 #nature #trees #life #sunrise #calm #peace #woodland #walk #mindfulness

Morning walks in the countryside (and Monty going in the wrong direction). Amongst nature we can find the balm to soothe our minds from all the chaos. May your day be peaceful my friends. 😊 #walk #nature #trees #dog #cockapoo #calm #peace #life

We should walk our own path, one step at a time, without attachment to expectations. When we learn to do this, we can quell so much of our inner suffering. 😊 #nature #walk #calm #peace #life #mindfulness #trees #winter #photography