by Ali Baker | Mar 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
I need to write as I haven’t done so for far too long. My head is full to bursting my heart feels weak. I have doubts and anxieties. To be vulnerable is hard, we struggle to find those words but when we take that first step we make progress. Speaking from the heart...
by Ali Baker | Mar 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
I read this quote by the author Paulo Coelho in June 2012 in an interview at the end of his book The Witch of Portobello. It’s more of a sentence than a quote but the relevance of these words for me at that time in my life continues to impact my life and decisions...
by Ali Baker | Feb 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
My week has contained several connections with flowers. In France the first signs of Spring I see are tiny lemon yellow specks in the banks lining the route down the mountain. For the last 4 years my curiosity quickly followed by delight at these beautiful love-filled...
by Ali Baker | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
I don’t think you are, but it’s the voice that speaks without sound, the one that stays in your head, talks to itself and shouts so loud that your real voice is drowned out. This voice creates fear to move forward, take on new challenges and believe in ourselves. BUT...
by Ali Baker | Feb 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
“What a waste of life,” is a phrase I have said twice in the last month. Firstly for a friends cousin who was murdered in South America and for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death last Sunday. One life taken by another for the pursuit of wanting more or what everyone else...
by Ali Baker | Jan 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
Friday January 31st 2014, the last day of the first month of 2014 felt like an unconscious deadline for planning the rest of the year. The task was to decide on my goals, objectives, activities and dreams for the remaining 11 months of this year, via the totally...
by Ali Baker | Jan 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
I have been a thinker and not an acteur for too long. (I prefer the French spelling as it rhymes better!) My brain is always going to the point that my thoughts are on a loop, over and over again. This used to make me ill – dwelling on thoughts, what ifs would give me...
by Ali Baker | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the final week of the month-long Carnival of Creative Mothers to celebrate the launch of The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood by Lucy H. Pearce which has been Amazon.co.uk’s Hottest New...
by Ali Baker | Dec 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Week Three of the month-long Carnival of Creative Mothers to celebrate the launch of The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood by Lucy H. Pearce. Today’s topic is Creative Inheritance....
by Ali Baker | Nov 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Week Two of the month-long Carnival of Creative Mothers to celebrate the launch of The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood by Lucy H. Pearce. Today’s topic is Creative Heroines. Do read to...
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