Category Archives: Columns

Sometimes looking outwards really is the only way to find some space within, says Tanya Meeson Woman&Home SA, November 2021 It is early morning, and I am sitting on the polished wooden floors of a hip, inner-city yoga studio. I am sitting cross-legged and straight-backed, eyes closed, hands resting on knees, breathing deeply. I amContinue reading “The great out there”

Thriving isn’t a goal but a state of being, says Tanya Meeson Woman&Home SA, October 2021 The thing I love about plants is what interesting people they are. Resilient, defiant, always pushing up and out no matter where they find themselves and no matter what shape they take. Call them ‘flower’ or ‘weed’ and they’llContinue reading “We are Groot”

You don’t need to paint to call yourself creative Woman&Home SA, September 2021 I was once Mother Goddess. Or, at the very least, I was channelling her. It was a one-person, one-night-only performance and I was an electric vessel in a state of afflatus, a powerful force of devastating wonder. Pity then that I wasContinue reading “The Artist’s Way”

There’s big magic in everyday bravery Woman&Home SA, August 2021 Deep in the forested mountains of northern Taiwan is a small natural pool called Celestial Lake. It’s a swimming hole for the rocky campsite that runs adjacent to it and a minor attraction for those who like jumping off cliffs into pits of icy coldContinue reading “A step into the unknown”

Sometimes the only way to see properly is with some gratitude, says Tanya Meeson Woman&Home SA, July 2021 Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen starts not with friends Kay and Gerda, but with a wicked goblin. The story goes that the evil goblin created a mirror that distorted everything reflected in it; what was goodContinue reading “A note on thanks”