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The unanswerables

I’m not sure we all make it out of the underworld. Not the real underworld, I mean. I suspect that when one starts to feel as though one...

Sacred Activism

I’ve just returned from a long, snowy, winter’s retreat in Belgium. From minus 2 degrees to 38 degrees in a matter of 14 hours, it’s...

‘Times are urgent. Let’s slow down’.

‘Times are urgent. Let’s slow down’. Bayo says this is an African proverb. It’s incredible. I met Satish Kumar when I was seven months...

Curate?

I talk to my beloved friend yesterday. He is 79 coming to 80. When he opens his mouth to speak, the words sound as if they come from...

Being home

In a world of displacement, migrations and wrenching from all that people seem to know, I find myself wondering about place. The place I...

Coming home

On our last night together, we eat really extraordinary food in a restaurant overlooking the Pacific ocean. I choose wine that lands up...

Machu Picchu, from ‘machu pickchu’ in Quechua: ’old peak’

I’m overjoyed we trekked in the Cordillera Blanca - purest nature, feelings of infinity, love and the cosmos. All of that! And now, my...

Qosqo, Cuzco, Cusco - it’s all one city

It’s a slightly surreal journey back to Lima from the Cordillera Blanca. In another zone completely, touched by purest nature, thinnest...

BLOG AND ESSAYS

The unanswerables

Sacred Activism

‘Times are urgent. Let’s slow down’.

Curate?

Being home

Coming home

EVER-INSPIRING:

STUDENTS WRITING

Many students have co-created our learning spaces over many years, and their writing is an incredible gift. Here is some - raw, unplugged, ravenous for a world that is different. The students that choose the strands of leading transitions, ecological ethics and facilitating are a special breed. They come with their eyes wide open. Most carry a yearning for that which is beautiful, good and true - and are unafraid of the shadow that pads alongside. In a world of artificial intelligence and biogenetics, we need people who are able to exercise judgement rooted in transformative ethics. Their gaze is inscrutably honest.

Long may it last.