Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • (thanks for the pic, J!) Well, it is done. My time at the zoo is complete. Although I may have to make a couple of final trips out to campus, my responsibilities and work days are finished. It is surreal after seven and a half years to believe it is actually over. When I arrived in 2009, I had grand plans of only staying for a year and then going on to rebuild…

  • Well, decisions are being made and actions are being taken. By the end of the day we will have (hopefully) made our security deposit on an apartment here (same as this post): Although we had initially thought to get a 3-bedroom, there was a 2-bedroom that we decided would be smarter for us to take on; however, due to a delay in communicating, we ended up with a 3-bedroom after all! (gee darn!…

  • There has been little time for me to sit down properly to write. A lot has been going on with changes happening on all levels of my life. Stress is building up, but I am using a lot of positive affirmations to ensure that all goes well. I reckon that either I will write more here in the next two months to stay sane, or I will be altogether absent depending on how…

  • Well, you might think that now the wedding is finished and married life has begun life would be settling down for me. Not quite yet…. Since I decided to quit working full-time at the ZOO, we now need to work on moving to a new apartment as our current place is part of my work package. There are a number of places to live in the city, but we are a little particular about…

  • I grew up in a world where people were taught to say “Please” and “Thank you”. It was a world where you RSVP’d on time and followed through on your word. If you said you were going to do something, you just did it – no matter the difficulties or challenges that arose; because it was your word that meant everything. Nowadays, people use words casually without thought to their meaning or consideration for…

  • Spring has already come and the weather in the UAE is somewhat out of character lately. Seven years ago when I first arrived, there was similar weather of rain storms, flooding and cancelled classes. This year, hurricane-like weather passed through – they didn’t call it as such but what else do you call 130kph winds? – causing rain storms, flooding, closed schools and things falling to pieces? Due to such weather on the…

  • Nearly five and a half months without posting and so much has happened in that time. I actually started writing this post when the new year hit – as would be expected, but then life got in the way. There’s nothing like a bit of an emotional jolt, results of meditation and life changes to reset the niggling that one should be writing again for some unknown audience out there (though I know a…

  • It’s been a while since I’ve taken the time to sit in front of my computer and do some work on it for personal reasons. Part of the reason is that I have actually been very busy with life and enjoying new adventures and paths that are in front of me. Part of the reason is that I have no interest in coming home to sit in front of my computer when I…

  • These past almost two weeks have really given me a sense of peace and calm. I have also discovered a new direction for my life as long as I keep working my energies towards that path. One thing that has really come out of this mindfulness training is the discovery of other people who believe in the power of humans. I’ve never been able to buy into a religion and have always just…

  • So, I’m six days in to the Mindfulness Summit and I’m totally hooked! Ages ago a friend or friends talked to me about my thoughts on meditation and yoga. I thought I wasn’t into it and although I have a belief in a higher being, I wasn’t really going to embrace a new-agey kind of trend. Now…I’m a yoga lover and am becoming a HUGE fan of mindfulness. It’s working already to keep me…

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