Author Archives: Anja O'Connor

Real life conversations are one of my favourite things. To hear and understand what makes people tick and how a life is lived. Every encounter lets me look at my own life. In the past I probably compared my life to other’s lives and judged it in a way that made a stand. “I wouldContinue reading “Being Grateful”

I’m just going to stick with the easy spelling on the “dialog”, not the “computer dialog box” meaning that pops up when researching. There’s surely a few people who might think the spelling of this blog title is the evil work of an ignorant rambler. But they might not have started reading this blog…. ForContinue reading “Conversations vs Dialogs (or Dialogues)”

When we sit down sometimes amidst the busy days full of beavering and working away, and look around at our cherished accomplishments, do we feel we belong where we are? I always thought belonging is tied to a place. Maybe it’s where our cherished accomplishments are, our physical assets, our family, our friends. Maybe belongingContinue reading “Belonging”

Do you need to step out? When we think about how we spend our days and years and ultimately life, and it’s just not cutting it. When there’s a deep longing for a change. Maybe a glimpse of something inside, a flicker of an idea of how the world could be a better place andContinue reading “On stepping out(side)”

Pale Blue Dot In 1990 Carl Sagan asked NASA to turn the Voyager camera around and take a picture of our earth. From some incredible big distance, our home looks like a speck of dust in a vast lonely space of emptiness. Some years later we know a few more things about space, how toContinue reading “Pale Blue Dot”

I listened to a Rich Roll inverview with Zach Bush. Here is a short extract, the best 10 minute monologue I heard in a long time and one I go back to often. Since first listening to it, I feel wrapped in a blanket of calmness. A calm and stable brain has been the sideContinue reading “We are one”

HOMEABOUTBLOG What’s in it for me… My move into a tiny house was one of the best decisions I made in my life so far. Right up there with quitting smoking before my 30th birthday. Initially it was my only solution to not being able to find a house to rent. I live in aContinue reading “What’s in it for me…”

For a modern couch potato there’s plenty of research to be found on the internet that keeps one from getting up. The laptop on my lap, in a comfortable reclined position, I read about the heartrate one should monitor. Google “Running heart rate” and read the myriad of articles about how dangerous it is toContinue reading “Still easy… too easy?”

One day I will go into more detail about finding out about my purpose here on this earth. What to do with “my one wild and precious life” (Mary Oliver and grasshoppers, always nice to listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16CL6bKVbJQ) Let’s say I’m in the extreme fortunate position to be idle for a while, it’s been 6Continue reading “Starting somewhere…”