The better we learn to love ourselves, the better able we become to truly love the Other; to accept and cherish his/her otherness, without trying to fit them into expectations of how they 'should' be. Partners are not meant to complete us; we are whole ourselves; may they add to our happiness, not be their masters.

Inspired. I've been blessed with a magical weekend at the Beltane Fire Festival. Camping tingles memory to bring me back to childhood. Liberated, wholesome spirit; joyful, joyful laughter. Walking through the woods amidst a mystical cloud of bluebells, I rediscover nature; dancing free to drumming sounds, I'm a woman, thumping to the ground, back to this Earth I belong to. I reconnect to this physical form, move and stretch it - I shake off the past; chanting mantras I hold a