by Gretha | 26 Feb 2025 | Choice, Connect
All contact has a ripple effect. No matter how insignificant it may seem on the surface. Whether it is a slight touch of hands, eye contact, a conversation or an ant crawling over your skin. Our interactions do impact others and the environment. This humbling lesson...
by Gretha | 4 Dec 2020 | Belonging, Connect
Earlier in the year I read through my personal journals of the past 20 years. The yearning to belong was a theme that ran like a deep current under the waves of life that I tried to surf. On reflection I realised that the times when the waves felt like it was crushing...
by Gretha | 25 Apr 2020 | Connect, Touch
What is touch? What are the various ways that I can experience touch? These are the questions I’m reflecting on in this period of social distancing and being in lock-down on my own. What I’m missing the most is being able to touch another human body and being touched...
by Gretha | 4 Jul 2019 | Acceptance, Connect
I can’t remember when my fascination with Gorillas started but the movie “Gorillas in the Mist” definitely contributed to that. I only recently read the book (with the same name) by Dian Fossey on which the move was based. In the book she shares 13 years of...
by Gretha | 14 May 2019 | Connect
We all have an inner wild woman or man living inside of us. That part of us that wants to be free, spend time in nature and connect with animals. Yet, in the busyness of life we tend to neglect that aspect of ourselves. Instead of running or meandering freely in the...
by Gretha | 11 Mar 2018 | Connect, Silence
It has been seven months since my last blog. Writing this blog reminds me of the moment when we broke the silence on the 10th day of a Vipassana silent retreat that I attended recently. At the retreat noble silence is maintained for ten days which means that you don’t...
