February 2024
What I'm Doing Now
I'm staying in an apartment in Footscray, Inner Melbourne. It overlooks the Maribyrnong River, where I take my morning walk, through a lovely wetland of waterbirds. I'm still waiting to manifest my next Zen Permaculture house. That might be why I have torrents of energy for decluttering and harmonizing the homes of others.
Home Harmonizing work for people with big dreams and ADHD is my focus for this year.
I feel like a fairy, doing this pioneering work. I turn up, know exactly what to do next, and chaos yields to beauty. It's such a victory over my past.
One-Year Plan for 2024
March 2024
For three Sundays in a row, I'm holding Zen your Space design webinars. They are hands-on and 'Giftivist'.
Early April 2024
Spain, Morocco. I'd love to co-host a creative people's dinner party while I'm there: please introduce me to any wonderful connector people you know. Late April - Late May 2024
Melbourne, then Kamakura - Living with my Permaculture Sister Remi, doing hands-on home harmonizing consults, and workshops at The General Store
June 2024
Creative Retreat: reality-testing a book manuscript in a paradise setting, with cool people, and filming a trailer 'How to Create a Sacred Space, Anywhere in Your Home'
Late September 2024
Co-host of 3-day Deep Healing Retreat, Hepburn Springs
Mid-October 2024
Mullumbimby Japanese Arts & Culture Festival
Late October - Mid - November 2024
Kamakura, Japan
February 2025
Co-hosting Masanobu Fukuoka's Natural Farming Workshops with visiting practitioner KUTLUHAN ÖZDEMIR. Potential sites include Bega, Hepburn, Gippsland and Mullumbimby,
March 2025
Manifesting Fantasy I am entrusted with a big, old, beautiful house in a great location. I re-start my Zen Permaculture Fairyland community and get a cat. This is my dream.
Do you want Cecilia?
I'm available for a handful of intensive declutter and home harmonising projects, for people willing to go all the way. Click here to apply. Melbourne, Sydney, Byron Bay and Kamakura.
I'm open to invitations to co-host creative dinner parties, and model for creative pro photographers, in the last days of my youthful bloom.
My Reading Life
These 3 books are top my mind, in my conversations, and lighting my path ahead:
No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It, Garbor Mate
I treat myself to a couple of library books a week. 'Kafka on the Shore' is this week's escape from reality.
My Music Life
I want to escape Spotify, but not yet. I need to make the most of it first, as music is one of the poor areas of my life, and that can change. This year!
Word of the year 2024
Asymmetry