WATCHED - What Miracle Are You? - A Reflection on Life Video

I always find it inspiring when I find someone who is plainly just being themselves beyond all limitations. The woman in this video is one such person, and is consequently a real joy to listen to. But, as ever, at the core of who she now is, is a tragic incident and a decade or two of pain. As someone who has struggled pretty much all my life to be themselves in all its fullness, and that it's still a work in progress, she challenges me to go further than I currently can conceive of. 

Absolutely bleedin marvellous.

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WATCHED - Freedom of Less - a Reflections on Life video

This guy has a lot to teach us all. Living without a permanent home and wandering from one casual job to the next. There is a lightness to him that's inspirational. Though I can't quite see someone of my age wanting to do it, I imagine you do need to be robustly healthy. but then maybe that limitation is all in my head.

WATCHED - On Awe Of Beauty - A Reflection on Life Video.

This is such a moving video, of a woman who has such a tender sense of both the beauty and the fragility of her life. Born in part out of the loss of her young son. She talks about starting a gratitude journal in order to appreciate her life more, and the need in later life to prioritise what you focus your attention and love upon. So, needless to say, it spoke to me.

WATCHED - Grounded In Realness - A Reflections on Life Video

I recent came across this, I think South African based film makers Justine and Micheal. They run a video company called Reflections on Life. They edit fifteen to twenty minute vignettes, that each presents an insight into an alternative lifestyle or the thoughts of a person who has a particularly unique or notably thoughtful outlook on life. I have found many of them have spoken to me deeply, which I've really appreciated. I'm going to repost a short selection of them here. But you can find a whole lot more on their You Tube site.

This one, Grounded In Realness, features a guy who found during Covid lockdown that he loved the simpler life it brought him, that he has made a huge effort to continue its more contemplative slower paced nature afterwards.