March 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice
Perspective It is easy to talk about billions and trillions as if they are stones on a beach. Like children without the developmental experience to know the difference between a day and a year, the majority of humans, myself included, have little capacity to...
March 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Spaces of Disappearance To find spaces and places where the noise stops. Where effort is dropped. Where we dip into the pool of no-thingness. It can be a long run in the forest, surfing the waves at dawn, playing with children, dancing to music, falling into our art....
March 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Places we agree There are so many places where we do not agree. Different paths to here. A lively or damaged childhood. Beliefs that have the Grand Canyon between them. Lived experiences that have broken us, or built us. In the tangle of human affairs, when humans...
February 21, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
There is a storm coming And we know it. Literally as a tropical cyclone in my local area, and metaphorically as more and more people caught in the tangles of denial by politicians of climate change, money and corruption in politics, get out from their chairs and name...
February 19, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Patterns of meaning making In one of my favourite books of the last decade, The Patterning Instinct, by Jeremy Lent, he talks about two people, one well-known in Western History, Christopher Columbus, and the other, hardly known at all, Admiral Zheng, who sailed the...
February 18, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Caring and anger strange bedfellows After centuries of submission, female anger is rising as a collective act. It is confusing to both genders. This strange emotion occupies spaces that have been vacuumed out. It arises with the force of a wave triggered by the...
