Columbia Hillen
A Night To Remember On Top Of The World
A surreal feeling of being the last people left alive, with no human presence in site for miles around. And the image of the range of the...
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Columbia Hillen
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Between Waves of Scents and Sauces
Water above and around in a futuristic style, with ceiling made of canvas looking like waves, upscaled boat planks of wood or rowing...
Columbia Hillen
Jun 26, 20221 min read
Thanks to Solomon's Seal
My winning photograph in the 'Herbal Portraits' competition organised by the Irish Registry of Herbalists and the entire collection of...
Columbia Hillen
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Who Wished Me Happy Birthday...
We've had many weeks of covered skies, winds and rains but March arrived with sunshine and some of my friends decided it's time to show...
Columbia Hillen
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20201 min read
Once Upon a Time in Donegal...
Photographs from northwest Donegal, Ireland
Columbia Hillen
Apr 10, 20191 min read
Mysterious Languedoc
"To be happy, it is enough to think you are." ... an Occitan saying.
Columbia Hillen
Dec 12, 20181 min read
The long road to creation
"If you want to be a writer, you have to come to Paris," Sherwood Anderson.
Columbia Hillen
Mar 3, 20161 min read
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, 20152 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20141 min read
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...
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