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First published 11/2/2022 – Last edited 30/4/2025
In this evocative wild women empowerment poem, the ocean becomes a mirror for feminine strength, accepting inevitable aging with grace, and the raw, untamed beauty of our female spirit.
Explore how the tides and cycles of nature echo the journeys through the feminine.
At once deep and shallow, our energies oscillate through time and challenges gaining wisdom, and relearning about our inherent wild woman underneath it all.
First published 14/12/2020 – Last edited 29/4/2025
Real clouds are becoming a rare sight in our increasingly engineered skies.
When will more people start to appreciate the value in observing what is actually happening around us (and therefore to us)?
When will the epidemic of individual thought erupt?
A pandemonium of pondering what something could actually mean on a personal and collective level with open discussion.
Rather than just blindly buying into what is being claimed sensationally, or enforced arrogantly by often misaligned and ignorant others regardless of the “sides”?
Sure, we could go as far as pondering the concept of what is real and what isn’t?
However, for the purpose of this post, let’s content ourselves to establishing that I’m talking about “real” clouds as they appeared in our childhood prior to the 2000s.
You know, the clouds of our memories, the ones we were told are naturally generated by the regular heating and cooling water cycle of our planet… as opposed to the chemically induced or manipulated phenomena I think we witness much more of in our skies nowadays.
First published 26/8/2019 – Last edited 06/5/2025
When most people think of litter, plastic bottles or food wrappers often come to mind. Yet there’s one type of waste that is arguably more toxic, smaller — basically hiding in plain sight. We’re talking about cigarette filters, a severely under-estimated and massive contributor to plastic pollution and ecosystem damage.
Every year, billions of cigarette butts are dropped on streets, beaches, and parks. They may be small, but the environmental footprint is anything but. In fact, cigarette filters are the most littered item in the world, and they’re wreaking havoc on soil, waterways, and marine life.
It’s easy to assume the soft white interior of a cigarette filter is cotton and biodegradable. In reality, it’s cellulose acetate, a type of plastic made from wood pulp but highly chemically processed into a form that’s tough and slow to degrade like all other plastic.
Unlike paper or cotton, this material can take years — sometimes a decade or more — to break down.
And even as it does, it doesn’t ever vanish. Instead, it breaks into tiny plastic fragments — microplastics and nanoplastics that settle into the environment and enter our food chain.
The total impact of discarded cigarette filters on our health and environment is mind-blowing.
Once cigarette filters have filtered toxic cigarette smoke — much like the smokers that have discarded them — the cigarette butts are themselves full of these toxins.
The known carcinogens of cigarette butts then leach from the cigarette filter into the ground and waterways. Damaging living organisms and the organic ecosystems that come into contact with them; such as fish, birds and insects.