When I left my first marriage at thirty-three, I had two young children, no work outside the home, and very little understanding of what a property settlement would mean. After my first meeting with a lawyer, I went downstairs to an expensive city cafe and ordered tea and cake. I remember thinking, This could be the last time I ever sit somewhere like this and order something without worrying about the cost. Then another thought came just as clearly: Nevertheless, this is still the right decision. This is still worth it.
That small moment stayed with me because courage rarely comes with certainty. Sometimes it means choosing what feels true without knowing what it will cost or how things will turn out. The tea and cake became a quiet acknowledgement of that choice: I am willing to pay whatever this costs, because not choosing it would cost me more.
When Anu woke, she stood and moved with ease. Her body, she realised, was unnoticeable — as young bodies generally are.
After several weeks of being sixty-six-year-old Anna, she had returned to thirty-three-year-old Anu during the night.
Which was just as well, because she and Enlan had decided to go back to Fat Cow Falls that day. Enlan had been feeling very Earthbound and hoped he could connect with Enanika again in the pool. The cliff would be far easier for Anu to navigate than Anna.
“Have you lost something?” Enlan asked when they met at the entrance to the falls.
Anu frowned slightly and tilted her head.
“No. I don’t think so.”
He smiled, waiting. “A few years, maybe.”
She laughed. “Oh. Yes. That. It happened overnight.”
I have long felt that I’ve lived many lifetimes inside one life. Entire worlds have closed behind me and new ones opened — different relationships, places, identities, priorities, and ways of being. Looking back, some of those periods feel less like chapters of one continuous life and more like complete realities in their own right.
Perhaps change is not always about slowly improving the same self. Sometimes we move into a different experiential world where another version of us becomes possible. Seen this way, we do not have to remain loyal to past identities simply because we once inhabited them. We are allowed to move, reconfigure, and enter a life that fits who we are now.
Enanika is the visionary fiction I’m currently writing. Enanika follows Anu, a female from an advanced planet that resembles Earth. She comes here on a mission and must live within the density of our dimensions while maintaining her Nanik consciousness.
Alongside her is Enlan, also from Enanika. Unlike Anu, he adapts quickly to life on Earth. He works, relates, and lives as people do here. They were not meant to be on Earth at the same time — yet life had other plans.
The book I’m currently writing is Enanika: Visionary Fiction.As the summer crowds leave Milkwood, Anu feels the gap between herself and Enlan growing. Enlan sinks further into Earth life, and his connection to Enanika is slipping. Anu continues her astral journeys to the Hermitage of Ling-Shi-La, a place beyond time. But on this visit, she encounters an unexpected problem — one that will add to the tension already unfolding between her and Enlan.
Many people know what they want: greater peace, freedom, abundance, meaningful work, and nourishing relationships. Yet another voice often runs quietly underneath those intentions. It sounds like caution or realism: This is just the way things are. Now isn’t the right time. I’ve tried before. It probably won’t work. I should prepare for the worst. Because the voice sounds sensible, we can mistake it for truth.
A more helpful response is not to fight with it, but to recognise that it is only one way of thinking. Things may be less fixed than they seem. Clarity often comes through movement. Fear does not always mean stop. Other people’s beliefs do not determine what is possible for us. We are free to change our minds, choose differently, and pay attention to the thoughts that move us towards the life we actually want.
Some spiritual teachings help us through words and concepts. They give us language for what we believe, what we are experiencing, and where we are going. Other teachings work more quietly. Much is left unsaid. Instead of explaining, they work through presence, tone, beauty, silence, or vibration. We may not be able to say exactly what they have done, only that something within us has shifted.
Both have value, but felt spirituality asks us to loosen our need for explanation and definition. There is less to hold onto, repeat, or identify with. For some people, that feels uncomfortable; for others, it feels like home. Words may help us find the path, but sometimes the deepest part of the journey begins when the words fall away.
Christmas — the birth of Jesus — is all about love. It is what the birth of any great spiritual being signifies: the entrance of enlarged love onto the planet.
Love is the centre of our world, our universe, and our multiverse. Everything arises from love. It is the creative force that ever expresses itself in infinite forms, endlessly alive. Every part of existence, every particle of the universe, emerges from that love.
Love revitalises all things. It brings health to our body, peace and clarity to our mind, and happiness to our relationships. Resolve to bring love into every aspect of your life — into your home, your work, and your play. Let it flow to every person, every creature, and every expression of life.
Also, on this Christmas Day, 2025, my young co-author and I are delighted to share another birth: the beginning of our new children’s series. The first book is Foxie: The Contact Child. It is born from love, creativity, open minds, and a deep desire to share with our world. Available as paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
Foxie: The Contact Child (for 7 to 12 year olds)
A novel by Donna Goddard and her granddaughter, Aisha Bailey, written for 7 to 12-year-olds. Together, they draw on imagination, family stories, and the beauty of life — both the mundane and the extraordinary — to create tales for children.
Foxie is no ordinary child. She comes from Cha Chu Pani, a peaceful world where children grow in glowing bubbles, creatures live in harmony, and everyone communicates through thoughts. As a hybrid Contact Child, her first solo mission is a big one — Earth.
After a secret night landing in Tanglewood, Foxie is taken in by Aunty Em and Uncle Harry, who believe she’s simply a lost girl with no memory. But Foxie knows exactly who she is…
Earth brings many surprises: new foods, strange customs, powerful emotions, and a maddening foster girl named Maddie.
A magical, uplifting adventure about understanding, listening, courage, love, and seeing Earth through new eyes.
In Chapters 8 and 9 of Enanika, Anu is drawn far beyond the quiet streets of Milkwood into one of the most ancient spiritual landscapes on Earth — Tibet, the roof of the world. At the Hermitage of Ling-Shi-La and later at the Sanctuary of Zamsar, she encounters a living spiritual lineage that once shaped, and still shapes, the energetic evolution of Earth. These chapters move between worlds — Milkwood and the Himalayas, present and past — revealing doorways into the sacred. While the Hermitage offers transmission, the Sanctuary offers a love story.
