Letters From the Mountain
Categories:
A weekly letter from the mountains in East Flores, Indonesia. About courage, belonging, and the beautiful mess of beginning again.
These aren’t essays written from hindsight: they’re field notes from the middle of it all.
Each letter explores what happens when life takes a new shape: how we rebuild, find our place, discover presence, and learn to trust again.
You’ll find stories about courage in quiet moments, renewal after loss, and the calm that comes when we stop forcing outcomes.
When You Think You Have Nothing Left: How to Begin Again
‘Beginning again isn't weakness, Gran. It's rebellion in its quietest form...’
Theme: Starting over after major setbacks.
When Death Stops Everything (And Why That's Sacred)
‘When death stops everything, the world keeps moving: yet you’re left holding the silence, learning to breathe again in its shadow...’
Theme: Grief, faith, and the fragile courage to keep going.
When Daughters Fly and Piglets Cry: On Letting Go and Finding Peace.
‘Watching piglets weep for their mother, I saw my own ache mirrored, the bittersweet art of letting daughters go...’
Theme: Motherhood, grief, and the wisdom of animals.
On Raising Naughty Daughters (And Why I'm So Glad They Didn't Turn Out Perfect)
‘If raising ‘naughty daughters’ means raising women who question, rebel, and carve their own paths, then may the world be full of them...’
Theme: Motherhood, rebellion, and raising fearless daughters.
This week’s letter:
When Purpose Steps Aside (And Presence Takes Its Place)
‘When purpose falls away, what’s left is presence, the small, sacred noticing of what still remains…’
Want Your Own Stories to Sound This Human?
Here’s how we work together: I ask insightful questions and catch the threads worth pulling.
Then shape those ideas into stories that land. Think of me as the person who organises your thoughts without touching your voice.
Your words.
Your stories.
My brain, time, + keyboard.