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Columbia Hillen
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Where there's a will, there's a way...
Clearing the site almost finished... ... some darlings just waiting for get their rightful place in the garden. This is my project if...
Columbia Hillen
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Columba's Wild Irish Healing Herb Garden
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.... and I began this journey almost two years ago when I enrolled in a herbalism...
Columbia Hillen
- Dec 23, 2020
- 1 min
Once Upon a Time in Donegal...
Photographs from northwest Donegal, Ireland
Columbia Hillen
- Apr 10, 2019
- 1 min
Mysterious Languedoc
"To be happy, it is enough to think you are." ... an Occitan saying.
Columbia Hillen
- Dec 12, 2018
- 1 min
The long road to creation
"If you want to be a writer, you have to come to Paris," Sherwood Anderson.
Columbia Hillen
- Mar 3, 2016
- 1 min
Forty four years today...
Forty four years today I came into this world. A Drop of water from outer space, taking the shape I have now. The only intention I am...
Columbia Hillen
- Dec 23, 2015
- 2 min
The many shades of happiness
Coming to the end of another year and I let myself carried away with the wave of all the rush to remember everyone... Have we "bought...
Columbia Hillen
- Nov 16, 2015
- 1 min
Food moods - Rainbow salad for rainy days
It's been raining and the sky won't change its grey tones. Why not get a rainbow in my plate with this salad created as I go along. 2...
Columbia Hillen
- Jul 28, 2015
- 1 min
Once upon a time in Cnoc Fola
Once upon a time, there was a girl who dreamt of a specific place by the sea. She did not know if the place was real, but that did not...
Columbia Hillen
- Jul 21, 2015
- 1 min
Concert for pots and pans
Reminiscent of an invitation to dine within the inner temple of the kitchen in the Oitavos Hotel in Cascais, I have to thank Chef...
Columbia Hillen
- May 9, 2015
- 1 min
The way of the menhir
I have touched the silent menhirs in Carnac, Brittany several years ago and I left with more questions than I came with. I needed to try...
Columbia Hillen
- Apr 11, 2015
- 1 min
Instant perspective of heterotopias of time
Airports can be such a contrasting combinations. On one side, they are cold, characterless warehouses, with no soul – we never spend...
Columbia Hillen
- Feb 15, 2015
- 1 min
Escaping reality in reality
There is something comforting about hotel lobbies. Like being in front of a portal to a world where you are simply a guest. No...
Columbia Hillen
- Jan 11, 2015
- 1 min
Je Suis Charlie: A thank you to all my diverse selves, wherever you are out there
It’s no coincidence that I have been reading “Tomorrow’s God” by Neale Donald Walsch when the events in Paris happened. And even though...
Columbia Hillen
- Dec 14, 2014
- 1 min
Conversations during Afternoon Tea
I believe the initial idea of the afternoon tea was to feed the hunger and satisfy the thirst of those who were too passionate to...
Columbia Hillen
- Dec 3, 2014
- 1 min
That quiet place between two breaths
I have my yoga teacher to thank for her gift: "try to find that quiet place between two breaths." I did not know how much I was looking...
Columbia Hillen
- Oct 22, 2014
- 2 min
Halloween thoughts and autumn feelings
At this time of year I always get asked the question: “Was Dracula real?” Growing up in Transylvania, in a small town in the mountains,...
Columbia Hillen
- Oct 8, 2014
- 1 min
How does it feel to be YOU?
I have left parts of myself in each corner of the world where I have travelled. The moment I stopped and fully realized I was THERE, a...
Columbia Hillen
- Sep 29, 2014
- 1 min
Learning from the water how to master change
"There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name...
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