What's happening here...

headSpa is headed down a new path.

Beginning on February 1, 2009, headSpa is launching an additional blog at www.dailyheadspa.com It’s a once-a-day headSpa for enjoying yourself, with daily treatments of weekly themes that help you develop the original relationship of your life – the one you have with yourself.

This blog will be the journal accompanying www.dailyheadspa.com, with daily briefs and extended personal reflections.

Comments and links encouraged in both places.

See you here on February 1, 2009 when we’ll be coming to you live from
Rapid Creek in Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory. Australia.

40 Days of Pathways: Day 40

40 days of Pathways: Day 39

40 Days of Pathways: Day 38

40 days of Pathways: Day 37

40 Days of Pathways: Day 36

40 Days of Pathways: Day 35

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

40 Days of Pathways: Day 34

40 Days of Pathways: Day 33

Trees are cages for them: water holds its breath
To balance them without smudging on its delicate meniscus.
Children watch them playing in their heavenly playground;
Men use them to lug ships across oceans, through firths.

They seem so twinkle-still, but they never cease
Inventing new spaces and huge explosions
And migrating in mathematical tribes over
The steppes of space at their outrageous ease.

It's hard to think that the earth is one -
This poor sad bearer of wars and disasters
Rolls-Roycing round the sun with its load of gangsters,
Attended only by the loveless moon.

Norman MacCaig (1910 - 1996)

for C. George Norman, Jr. (August 26, 1935 - August 5, 2005) Rolls Royce owner, his pathway always glittered.

40 Days of Pathways: Day 32

40 Days of Pathways: Day 31

But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do - - - determined to save
the only life you could save.

3rd and final stanza of "The Journey" by Mary Oliver

40 Days of Pathways: Day 30

You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations - - -
though their melancholy
was terrible.It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.

2nd Stanza, "The Journey" by Mary Oliver

40 Days of Pathways: Day 29

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice - - -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
'Mend my life!'
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.

1st stanza, Mary Oliver "The Journey"

40 Days of Pathways: Day 28

40 Days of Pathways: Day 26

“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.”
Erich Fromm

40 Days of Pathways: Day 27

40 Days of Pathways: Day 26

40 Days of Pathways: Day 25

40 Days of Pathways: Day 24

40 Days of Pathways: Day 23

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
Princess Diana
(photo of her memorial fountain in Hyde Park)