Lee Mayimele

Category: What Makes YOU Smile

Dear Kids (A reflection from a greying Mama’s Heart)

Dear Kids Whilst no parent has all the answers and whilst this mama is constantly, still learning, know this for sure: You are never alone Travel is the best teacher “No” is a good word. Use it often. It’s particularly lovely when there’s a dead silence and you offer no explanations “Please” and “thank you”…
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Shine your WEIRDO LIGHT bright (A short Soul-Sunday reflection on being YOU)

a simple Namaste-style salute that says “You’re weird. But, gosh, so are all of us!”
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A Loaf of Bread (Yes, another story about Gratitude & Magic)

It was the kind of morning when my coffee was medicinal rather than recreational.
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“Crazy” is the new “free” (A short reflection on daring to be different)

The ones who collect shells, coins, feathers, and lavendar even when it means their kids go Peter-from the-Bible on them?
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Crap Happens (A story about how a toilet taught me a lesson)

The toilet in my guest loo was acting up. A trickle of clear liquid on the floor at first. Then a rising water level after a flush for a few days. Both red flags I tried to ignore, I must admit. I had plenty other things in my plate and because there was…
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Feathers appear when ANGELS are near (A story about a lady cleaning my room)

I finally let up the espionage to take a walk along the beach. She called back at me “Lady, you dropped something”.
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Have you ever experienced PEACE? (A story about another’s faith)

Now, as the beneficiary of a lovely Catholic convent education (With a tonn of experience of telling fibs inside the Confessional. Judge not!),
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When is the right time to JUMP? (A short reflection on FAITH)

How do we accept when things come to an end? How do we know when to walk away? How the heck do we throw in the towel? Burn that damn bridge? How do we even begin to surrender to the flame of change when the fire is getting bigger and bigger, hotter and scarier…
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I remember the day I was born (A “crazy” story about a memory)

Guess what? I have the very vaguest recollection of something said to me on the day I was born. I kid you not. Yes, I know that sounds crazy but just today, while I sat up at 5am waiting for the sun to rise, I sort of remembered it from 40 years ago. Honestly, I…
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How a toddler schooled me in SURRENDER

He never looks across at his PlayDoh, nor does he squeeze in a quick trip to the fridge before he allows his body to melt.
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