Where do you live? Not sure right now.

What do you do? Not much right now.

Relocating? Returning? Yes. Sort of true, but nominally. Moving from one home to another, from one sacred ground to another, making the journey sacred. The inward road to the self is by default a pilgrimage. Wherever my station, wherever my destination, I remain a pilgrim, the one with no name. Simply a traveller, fully present on the ground beneath my feet, inside the body I inhabit, in my breath, in the arrival and the anticipation, warmly enveloped in the arms of time.

The origin of the word ‘pilgrim’ is from the Latin word Peregrinus (per, through + ager, field, country, land), which means a foreigner, a stranger, a temporary resident, someone on a journey. In all its foreign-ness and temporary-ness, a pilgrimage remains an act of love and devotion, a route to discovering something previously unknown, the miracle inside the movement from here to there and back.

Over the last couple of years, we have felt a definite pull towards our family in India. We have gradually started spending more time here. I am now in the second year of my sabbatical. The Circle of Remembrance (www.core-community.com) has been blessed with the completion of three whole years, bringing together two lovely gatherings of people twice every month. Each gathering, an opportunity to open our hearts, be courageous, be seen embracing our robust vulnerability and celebrating our children together. A space that lovingly holds that ache, that thirst, that yearning. Check out the website for more details. One life-enhancing conversation with other bereaved parents every fourteen days, guaranteed.

Thank you for waiting. Thank you for your kind messages and e-mails, for your gentle encouragement. By the Grace that flows through us, the first draft of the book is done. I didn’t think it was possible but it is. It was an exercise in serious masochism, fraught with major self-doubt. Does the world need yet another book?

We will find out, I suppose. They say writing is rewriting. So, I am still a fair distance from completion but in the meantime, I am delighted to be back here with you. Thank you for your patience.