By Melanie Kim Brockwell in Cats

Setting Up a Stray House for Winter

16 May 2023

We have a few neighbourhood cats that come around for food every night. One insists on coming during the day too but s/he’s a special case (see below).

Anyway, there’s a boy we call Hops who’s definitely homeless (only the homeless kids eat the raw food, for some reason) and we’d like to make sure he’s dry, safe and warm this winter so we bought him a little house. When I told the delivery driver what it was for, he looked at me like I had two heads. I guess looking after strays is not everybody’s cup of tea.

By Melanie Kim Brockwell in Morning Pages

Maybe it’s Animals

20 April 2023

If speaking with humans means me being tired and sick then maybe it’s animals, trees, rivers and rocks that I am called to work with instead. That’s what came to me yesterday. That’s where I’m at right now. Wondering what will come next. And if it is animals, how does that equate to ‘working’? is […]

By Melanie Kim Brockwell in My Daily Journal

What people don’t know

19 April 2023

People don’t know how much pain I’m in, every day, and how hard I fight… to get things done, to carry on (being), and simply to appear as if I am not so I might avoid conversations about how un.well I might be or, worse still, if I am yet using my gift to help […]

By Melanie Kim Brockwell in Morning Pages

I Feel So Stupid

31 March 2023

Contribution Regret, I think I’ll call it, or maybe Participation Rue. Any way I describe its headline there’s a remorse at having opened my mouth for some community gathering or another and it pains me not to be able to erase myself from the map of all that is… and yet, I’m completely at home […]

By Melanie Kim Brockwell in Numbers

My Fortunate Name

3 November 2022

Not long ago I chose to have my name evaluated by a Chaldean Astro-numerologist. It was a blast — a blast of elemental air into my energetic process around what to do now. In a very concrete way, it helped me figure out what my new business name might be and how to refer to […]

By Melanie Kim Brockwell in Morning Pages

When I Forget What I Know

15 August 2022

Somehow I feel like if I have it all written down then it will make more sense and may even have a bigger impact on my everyday life. But even when I do get part of the process done there’s too much to remember in one go or too much to be able to recall […]

By Melanie Kim Brockwell in Morning Pages

Days I Feel I Don’t Have Anything To Offer

25 July 2022

On Days That I Don’t Feel I Have Anything To Offer … I just have that feeling. I just keep going into and onto whatever else is showing up for me to keep going onto and into. It’s not some special trick to get to some special state of awareness or energy that suddenly lifts […]

By Melanie Kim Brockwell in Morning Pages

Heaven-round, Earth-square.

25 June 2022

In gaitian technology, only Earth has corners. Heaven is round. I love this open circle that exists around all-that-is. I am drawn to its beauty, to its simple calm horizon where there is only talking and no sound.

By Melanie Kim Brockwell in Morning Pages

Is it true?

22 June 2022

I knew that it would happen eventually. People would start talking in my language and I would either feel grateful to be alike or annoyed to be sharing the light-space. Right now, I’m feeling a bit of both and everything in between. I could say that’s mostly b/c the people I’m hearing it from are […]

By Melanie Kim Brockwell in Morning Pages

Begin Again

21 June 2022

So much of my life seems to be spent starting again, I take it that’s my specialty – starting over. I’ve done it so many times I’m a natural. In fact, I’m not sure there’s a time it didn’t happen. Even my counselling degree was […]