October 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
I am so sorry Last night, my partner said to me. “It is us, Christine, the human race. We are destroying the planet. Without us, Earth and all her creatures would thrive.” And he is right, for the most part. It is us, the greedy, rapacious Western neoliberal...
October 14, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Conspirituality For the last few weeks, I have been reading, learning and listening to understand a phenomenon called conspirituality. This term was first coined in 2011 by Charlotte Ward and David Voas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspirituality The uniting...
October 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
Walls “The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there.” Ursula K. Le Guin I think about the walls I have built in my life. Walls to protect that also keep those with no intent to harm out. Walls that...
October 12, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Nothing makes this right I just read this statement by Naomi Klein, published in The Guardian. “An international left rooted in values that side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child. A left that is unshakably...
October 11, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
On the precipice In any system, when pressure is continuously applied to the system, and the parts within the system perturbate increasingly violently, there will come a time when a threshold is crossed, and everything changes. This moment of threshold crossing is...
October 10, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Choosing our own facts We all choose our own facts. Some of us do it with reckless abandon, untethered from any consequence. Others are filled with indignation and shame when we realise that we have built a narrative and life on lies and myths. I think about the...
