Welcome - thank you for coming to visit me.

I will try and keep these pages - including a blog - brief and updated regularly as I value your time. These pages record some of my experiences and personal insights as I travel North America and Canada over the next year or two and link what I learn to past experiences. I hope that I will get to know myself better and discover parts of me that have been buried deep since my early childhood. I also wonder if reading my thoughts will kickstart you thinking about your own, which might help you avoid mistakes and achieve your future success more quickly? Seeing through someone else's eyes often gets your mind working so that you start to see your own situations differently.

It can be good exercise, resulting in a six-pack of emotional muscles?!

There is a wonderful invitation in the Bahai'i writings that encourages children to go over their day, every day, before sleeping. I see that as helping us to slow down our world and focus clearly on it for a few minutes so that we might see more clearly? I see it as an invitation to debrief our experiences, enabling us to wring every bit of learning from them. Thankfully, we are all children of God, whatever our age, race or religion.

I love to try and learn from other people's experiences and mistakes - rather than insist on making every mistake in the book for myself. Which I often do anyway. I must have been the most difficult (and very sensitive) child, Mom, and I truly appreciate your patience. If possible, I want to pay forward my experiences, put them into readable words and hope they might drip oil on the cogs in our minds. As a good friend of mine said today "enjoy life as you see it", reminding me that everyone perceives things a little differently.  I hope writing will allow me to debrief and make better sense of my own life.

I look forward to reading your feedback and comments - what better way for me to 'see' you and to hear from you?

With love and wishing you a beautiful day - Happy 2012!