Can you handle a full-on Revolution? 'Are you willing to let go of 50 per cent of your kitchen stuff? I asked '70 percent! she said. 'I...

I met Diane Carter on Dr. Marc's Bali retreat, and like four-year-olds, we became friends the minute we met. She probably even took my...

I love drawing its frilly round leaves. I love it when I call in on oldies in the countryside, and they shuffle over to offer me a dish...

Its Golden Week here in Kamakura, the one week of the year the overworked people of Japan get days and days of time off to go put up a...

My sister's choir sang this lulling whirlwind of a song on International Women's Day. I love the many moods, like life. It's a song for...

I'm staying in an apartment in Footscray, Inner Melbourne.  It overlooks the Maribyrnong River, where I take my morning walk...

On this day many centuries ago, a tsunami washed away the building that this guy Amida was housed in. The monks never built him another,...

I've been in love with eco-villages since I read Mrs Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh, about a colony of very clever escapee lab rats, who...

I'm doing something a bit radical this year, and so far, so good. It's called 'only do things you really, really like with people you...

My Sydney brother keeps a humble cottage in the remote and lovely town of Beechworth. It's for lockdowns, for his chickens and ducks, and...

When I came and stayed at Gardenfarm a few years ago, it was my dream to fill the farm with people I enjoyed, and have them live and...

In a suburb of Melbourne, a cobwebbed chandelier was hanging in the corner of a cluttered courtyard. No light from this guy. I was...

I hope you've had some bliss-out time in your introvert spot today. I've just moved to a new home, and I'm experimenting, dragging chairs...

'Does anyone have Brasso they aren't using'? I was shy to put that request in the online community group. 'Why don't you just go buy it...

Christmas can be perplexing. It can also be a festival where we upgrade each other's lives, see each other in a new light, and get a...

When you open your fridge door, everything lights up. You see a 'tower of power' of beautiful food, stacked and ready to go. They are...

No matter how disorderly the rest of your house is, you start at the kitchen sink. Turn it into a shrine of beauty and love. It will spread.

Declutter is both a spiritual practice and a team sport. The stuff that clogs up our houses has a life of its own, and hypnotises us to...

My client Robyn and I made this little shrine of beauty, truth and love in a high-attention, high-value zone in her once-cluttered kitchen.