Often friends, clients, patients, colleagues have asked me to write of my understandings and the experiences that have given rise to them. For decades I resisted, and that in itself is a story. Now Sand&Pearls is my attempt to rise to their challenge, and to thank them in 
the process.
I spend my life listening to the stories of others; learning from them, marvelling at them; being exasperated, frustrated, saddened, enlivened, exhilarated, delighted and honoured by them. Every day I am humbled and amazed by the simple human courage that I have been invited to witness; to share. The courage of the people I meet and laugh with, advise and rant with; the people that I love in many different ways; this courage continually inspires, reassures and renews me in an often dark world. It also shakes and unsettles me; incessantly inviting and challenging me to regenerate myself.
We are the stories we tell of ourselves. Sand & Pearls is part of mine; a work always in progress. Thank you for visiting.