“He could reconstruct all his dreams, all his fancies. Two or three times he had reconstructed an entire day. He told me: I have more memories in myself alone than all men have had since the world was a world.” Funes the Memorious – Jorge Luis Borges 1942 ~~~ I am holding a photograph of…
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The long remembering
“We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors’ wisdom.” Maya Angelou Last week I was walking on Dartmoor when I stumbled upon The Mariners Way. The Mariners Way is said to be the track which sailors walked from Bideford in the north to Dartmouth in the south. As I…
From Dismal Science to Language of Beauty
Towards a New Story of Economics Humans are storytelling beings. In fact one could argue that it is impossible to make sense of the world without story. Storytelling is how we piece together facts, beliefs, feelings and history to form something of a coherent whole connecting us to our individual and collective past, present and…
Bridging the divide
“We can’t change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently. My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.” James Hillman Sometimes it would seem that those of us working for…
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.
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