Let nature guide us

At the end of my last blog which was the findings of the survey, I raised a question: What practical changes are you making to birth this new world?’

I was on my dawn walk this morning, listening to the  birds and letting myself be washed in the sunlit green of the trees when … Read more

The many stories of covid

I’ve always been a reader and a writer filling exercise books of horse and ballet stories when I was young.  But it was when my parents got divorced that I learned for myself, what I would later learn to be postmodernism, deconstructivism at university.  I learned from my parents that there were multiple narratives.

My

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I may be turning feral

I may be turning feral.  I have short nails from gardening and have worn my hair in plaits for weeks.  The white strands are taking over and I can’t see without my glasses, but I’m guessing my eyebrows need plucking.  I eat when I am hungry and wear what I like.  I sometimes snooze on … Read more

and so the myths crumble…

Mythologies

I did really badly in my A’ levels.  Why I ever did  French (E) and German (D) is another story, but English I loved and did well in.  Not well enough to go to a university like many of my grammar school friends, but the then Sunderland Poly, now university.

There was a

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More from the kids about covid

Thank you to Lucy and Naomi for sharing your experiences of covid at this weird time.

Lucy in Northern Ireland – age 12

  1. Where are you? I am In Portglenone /Northern Ireland.
  2. How is everyone in your family?   Everyone is keeping well, my daddy has a cough and we are isolating but he is not
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Covid Diaries from China

Connections

My lovely friend Dorota has spent the last year or so working in China and so has kindly asked friends to share their messages with us about covid:

Isha

From my friend Isha in China , she inspired our network of Ambassadors of Happiness 这次疫情是对全人类自私无知的警醒，更加彰显了幸福共同体理念的重要性，我们需要打破国界与心灵分别的界限，净化内心，从戴口罩到关注饮食和说话尽量不对人造成伤害，这也更凸显了我们幸福使者联盟初心的意义，特别是各位幸福导师用你们的智慧去唤醒人们提升幸福意识，保护环境与心灵，放下小我，万物一体。 我和男友@见纲 在疫情期间连续数月每日抄写佛经，为全世界而祈福，也为各位祈福。我同时也在重庆鸿恩寺森林公园装修我们的幸福小院，请大家多保重身体，期待疫情结束早日与各位重聚，到时候我亲自下厨做中国美食给各位吃

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