by Juliet Batten | 19, Aug, 2021 | Seasons Newsletter
How do you awaken after a long slumber, or emerge from deep meditation? How do you emerge from winter slowness, from the season of hibernation? Slowly Meditation traditions teach that slow, conscious emergence from the depths allows time to... 
by Juliet Batten | 21, Jan, 2021 | Seasons Newsletter
The land was on a grazed hillside, that was struggling to regenerate. When we first saw the bach, a coarse bramble arched across the doorway, and the interior smelt of dead ants. From the deck we saw tall bracken that had sprouted from the bare earth.... 
by Juliet Batten | 1, Sep, 2020 | Seasons Newsletter
The odd thing was that just a moment earlier I had driven into a quiet patch where the rain had stopped and the air was still. I flicked off my windscreen wipers and drove into a side street. The next moment, in a blast from the skies, my little car was... by Juliet Batten | 4, Jun, 2020 | Seasons Newsletter
As the rain fell steadily, soaking the earth, I watched the season tilt towards winter and thought of Irihapeti. Twenty years earlier, we sat in her Wellington garden, talking of grief and how it so often accompanies the midlife crossing. She was... 
by Juliet Batten | 15, Aug, 2019 | Seasonal inspiration, Seasons Newsletter
The odd thing was that just a moment earlier I had driven into a quiet patch where the rain had stopped and the air was still. I flicked off my windscreen wipers and drove into a side street. The next moment, in a blast from the skies, my little...