Hello, I'm Malini. Here's where I share my stories of creativity and life's lessons.
I hope you find inspiration for your own journey!

Malini Parker laughing at herself

When You Go to Target, Always Remember Your Underwear.

Many, Many Amazing Things happened this year. Among the Many Amazing Things that happened was being interviewed a few times. Most recently, by Connie Solero of Dirty Footprints Studio in …

public humiliation

One day, when I was publicly humiliated.

  You know when you’re all excited that you’ve made something and you want to share it? And you asked someone their opinion of your beautiful offering, the one you …

on my walks

How to Win At Life

DISCLAIMER: I have the most non-competitive psyche you can imagine. I hate the idea that to win a game, the other side has to lose. I totally do not get …

finding your way home by malini parker

Because I’m alive. And I can.

Spiders and snakes hold very little fear for me, but there are MANY other things I’m slightly terrified of: Falling asleep and snoring in public. Or worse still, drooling. Swimming …

Malini

SUCH Unlikely Places

“Courage is found in unlikely places.” -J.R.R. Tolkien This is the story of how I found my courage while I was taking shower. You probably know me as an artist. …

Varenna

Hope Wins.

“The very least you can do in life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it …

Anything Can Happen

  I’m walking with bare feet on very soft cool grass. The sun feels warm and so, so bright, almost Australian. Except when I look up I see soaring snow-capped …

Off on an Adventure

It’s a Dangerous Business

“Gandalf: Well, all good stories deserve embellishment. You’ll have a tale or two to tell of your own when you come back. Bilbo Baggins: … Can you promise that I …

Ubud Love

Wrapped in Love

Twenty minutes. That’s all I had from when I put the phone down to when I had to be there. Blair was leaving his shop in twenty minutes and I …

Greg Parker

A Letter to Greg on his Birthday

Gregory, How could I have guessed that as a young girl of twenty four, marrying Greg Parker would turn my little life into some kind of epic Drama-Sitcom-Musical-Circus?! Twenty-eight years …

In Pursuit of Awe

My Lovely Friend and I were having the beautiful kind of conversation that introverts like me live for, the mutual sharing that bypasses small talk and gets straight to the …

Do I want to just forget this year? Hell no.

“To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you’re limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realise that having a quarter-of-an-inch …

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