Thank you lockdown! Strange but true, everyone I hear from or read these days is (again) thanking God/Spirit/&c. for the time that has now become available for quality investment in people and things usually found lower down our to-do-lists. “As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do […]
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Saying grace
One of PET’s directors sent me an email last month. To it was appended some fascinating information re. the food chain and its impact on Life on Earth. Resonating thoughts touched on the themes of ‘interrelatedness‘ and ‘fasting as a biological form of spiritual grace.’ I’d like to share two of these resources with you. […]
Not another “change” blog
Healthy & Joyful greetings to you! I’d like to share the following (and a video) from a blog I receive: A new humanity is being born. After ten thousand years of a domination system, we are moving inexorably toward a global society built on love. As Charles Eisenstein puts it, we have the opportunity to […]
Crisis & social change
I read an interesting article today on the subject of 危机 or Wéijī, which we Westerners like to translate as “crisis” and “opportunity.” In his conclusion Govert van Ginkel confronts us with some pretty fundamental questions — not about the ‘how’ of the current crisis but — about our willingness to invest the extra quality-time […]
Social, cultural community
Why we need community: it helps us LIVE change, rather than just react.
Relationalism
Here’s a hopeful sign—identifying a quiet though powerful united-ness— from those great States of America! This made for a brilliant and thought provoking read. Perhaps for you too; the very subject for one of those lazy summer days… The Relationalist Manifesto source: Aspen Institute
Sustainable development
A phrase that has about as many meanings as people who use it —Dr. Paul Raskin. Add to this the disconnect I may feel with a subject that seems to stymie highly resourced intergovernmental organisations, transnational corporations and civil society at large! And yet only within me lies the answer to the challenges of my […]
