Another day, another climate talk – Part 2 It’s 3.45 in the morning and I’m awake. Outside I can hear the rain, the incessant rain. Was it the rain that woke me? Yesterday, on my way home I saw the river had broken its banks again. I’d been visiting a friend who was about to…
Tag: grief
Another day, another climate talk
“For sometime now I’ve been terribly worried. I wish I didn’t have to acknowledge it, but everything I have feared is happening.” Dr Sarah Perkins, Climate Scientist Another day, another climate talk. And as the climate march leading up to it, the summit itself and the various analyses fade into the media background within a…
Peace is possible
“A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.” Ben Okri I wasn’t intending to write this particular post, but every time I sat down to write this week I could only think of one thing: Gaza.
Bird song
“Until we can expand our scope beyond self-centred and purely human concerns to hold in mind the trillion worlds alive on this one earth at any moment, and to glimpse ourselves exactly in that vibrant, seamless web of interconnectedness, we are living in a kind of madness – which is to say, not living in…
Some Small Holding 