5 days ago on Tuesday January 5th 2021, I witnessed a mob who supported Donald Trump, entering the Capitol Building in Washington and breaking through the police barriers which offered minimal resistance. The most potent act of lawlessness seen in the USA for the past 150 years. Just this Sunday morning I was able to […]
It has often been in said, “You are dealt a pack of cards, and it is what you do with them that counts.” A somewhat more sophisticated versions of this truism has been articulated by Johana Macey writing about Active Hope, Victor Frankl in his work on Logotherapy, and the Stoic philosophers of old. Macy […]
I try not to let a good opportunity pass me by. I tend to enjoy being involved in controversial issues of the day. So, when Olu Temehin Adegbeye who is the ‘ Othering Correspondent’ of ‘The Correspondent’ a contemporary Dutch news magazine, requested her readers share with her examples of when they had been denied […]
It is Sunday 8th November 2020. Joe Biden’s success in the American Election has been announced. The writer’s paralysis I have experienced during the past few weeks is starting to heal. Now, with some relief. I feel I can share my thoughts and reflections of the past tense pre-election weeks. Never before had I invested […]
Merely a short half year ago, the Zoom Room was foreign territory to me. Now, it is an integral and important area of my daily attention, offering me many hours of challenge and entertainment. It has been an amazing personal transformation. New insights, new people, new conversations and new concepts have become part of my […]
New Feelings I have shared with you in previous blogs the strong feeling that pervaded my consciousness early this year. These meandering thoughts were around the need for me to become an active participant in promoting healthy habits of consumption to conserve our planet from immanent destruction. But, in the Past I had been actively […]
I am not religious. Nor do I consider myself to be particularly spiritual. However, in January I found myself experiencing a profound premonition that this year the subject of Climate Change would be important in my life. January 2020 In January 2020, there were vague rumblings about a virus in China. It was far away. […]
Baking Bread and Bettering the Brain My daughter Daniella who manufactures chef uniforms, did a deal with Jade who teaches Bread Baking. Daniella would make Jade and her mother each a beautiful apron to wear at their bread making demonstrations. In exchange, my daughter and I were offered a workshop on making Sour Dough Bread. […]
“But this is a time to gather the facts, then get quiet and summon our deepest wisdom — and let that wisdom lead us. For we have difficult choices to make in the coming days,” says Valerie Kaur in her memoir entitled “From Revolutionary Love.” It is now five months into the pandemic and I […]
Premonition of January 2020 I have never considered myself to be a particularly intuitive person. I have the odd hunch, and I know that foresight does play a role in decision making. However, since January 2020, I have been grappling to come to terms with the idea that Climate Awareness was going to be my […]