On Family

If you are lucky enough to have a family, a village that feels like home, take care to nourish and nurture those relationships.. We run on love after-all. We are hot wired to be amongst those that make us feel safe, secure and known.

Anyone that lends that incredible sense of expanse, freedom and laughter - they are your family. Your brothers, your sisters, uncles, aunts, mothers, fathers, nieces, nephews, children and grandparents. Blood or no blood. They are family.

So take the moments to honour, treasure and be present with those extraordinary figures in your life. They have been sent out to watch over, guide, protect and encourage your path, direction and sense of thriving.

We are not intended to live like islands - alone, unsupported and disconnected. We are built to coexist, to collaborate, to share our burdens and our joys with one another. To press our observations, our dreams and imagination collectively, into each other's lives and to lift each other towards a common moment in time - that draws on a sense of play, invention and creativity.

Life is composed of movement and choices and people we meet along the way. For those that give us a place to belong, a sense of being seen and heard, a word or two of wisdom and encouragement - it is those people that contour and create us. That we will carry with us always wherever we are and whose warmth and wild ways will be passed on to whomever we meet.

Love transpires and traces its outline along our little lives and we can see a spiralling, vibrant and viciously kind family set amongst and around us - as we circumnavigate our days, our years and our chances.

Family is everything. Family is what guides, advises, protects and pushes us towards that which we are capable of, confident it and cautious to tend to.

Never take it for granted but never allow yourself to feel swallowed, solvent or undermined in the name of love. Retain your independence, your true essence and your worth. That is your power and your unique quality. Collaborate but do not homogenise your intentions, personal aspirations and needs to be hushed in the name of community, family or service.

Always retain a sense of balance and a sense of holding your own amongst those that have bolstered and given you shelter. Do not bite the hand that feeds you, but never let those hands coerce, control or squash your destiny. Love has the potential to smother and cloud our instincts too. So detach securely, stay sharp and remember to give your life meaning and motion. Muster enough grace to trust your family, to welcome wisdom but take courage in your choices, accepting and offering help along the way.