What is Love Imelda May

02 Jul 2023 | Ceremonies

What is Love?

What is Love? Home by Imelda May ‘What is love?’, you ask My head spins, recallin’ every song Story, words, and glorious things I ever heard Every cliché rings in my ears Like a bell announcin’ the birth of a new day Or the death of yesterday Depends on how…

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Hymn to the Sacred Body of the Universe. Andrew Dellinger

14 Jun 2023 | Ceremonies

Hymn to the Sacred Body of the Universe

let’s meet at the confluence where you flow into me and one breath swirls between our lungs Andrew Dellinger   Photo: Wendy Haynes

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01 May 2023 | Poetry

True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh

Without true love, life has no meaning. Love is something organic, and if we don’t know how to handle love, it will turn into hate or despair, so we have to learn how to feed our love, so our love will continue to grow. In the teaching of the Buddha,…

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30 Apr 2023 | Ceremonies

Celebrating Love

When Anne and Laurie wrote love letters to each other in preparation for their vows, Laurie wrote, “Anne, you came into my life like a knock on the door announcing the arrival of a new epoch.  Although you were only steps from my door, it felt like we had both…

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28 Feb 2023 | Poetry

This is How Water Loves

We return to each other in waves. This is how water loves. Nayyirah Waheed

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The Can't Help Falling in Love...

26 Feb 2023 | Ceremonies

Can’t Help Falling in Love

Last weekend, Julian and Clarisse were married in the meditation hall at Bundagen, on a warm afternoon surrounded by the tall, cool rainforest. Their family and friends overflowed onto the decks of this beautiful, quiet space. Family had flown in from Brazil and there were copies of the ceremony available…

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Elopement ceremony

04 Dec 2022 | Ceremonies

Love is… eloping

As I walked around the corner of the sandy cove it was clear where I was going. There were two tripods made from beach driftwood, bound together by hessian ribbon and decked with a raucous display of native flowers. These sentinels sat at the edge of a circle that had been…

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22 Nov 2022 | Ceremonies

Come to the End Together

The bride showed me a small shallow, intricately carved bowl with two flat lug handles. The quaich had been in her Scottish grandparents family home for generations. Traditionally the quaich (pronounced quake) was used as a cup of welcome or farewell in the Scottish Highlands – usually filled with brandy or…

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30 Oct 2022 | Ceremonies

Shhh…eloping on Friday

I met a lovely couple who are choosing to have a quiet weekend away with their children… to get married.  They have a big family and many friends so they feel a wedding would get out of hand pretty quickly if they did the big wedding celebration and they wanted…

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25 Jul 2022 | Ceremonies

A Natural History of Love

A Natural History Of Love —Diane Ackerman “Love. What a small word we use for an idea so immense and powerful. It has altered the flow of history, calmed monsters, kindled works of art, cheered the forlorn, turned tough guys to mush, consoled the enslaved, driven strong women mad, glorified the humble,…

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