Because we are fundamentally relational beings, our engagement with and perception of the world is shaped by our conversations every day. These conversations may be local or global, and everything in between. They tend to either confirm or in some way reshape the way we think things are: from the way we live our daily …
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In this strange, boundaryless season, the marking of time helps shape our sense of identity. Small rituals and notes of celebration affirm our presence in the present and remind us that we are still moving. When my brother Jules was born in 1967, there is no anticipation that people with Downs Syndrome would live into …
When we stop to listen, we find new voices are emerging—those with the courage to speak about things that matter, without shouting. Voices that are curious about how and why things are, who ask questions that lay bare the status quo. Insights that arise from a breadth of perspective and enable us to see differently. …
Grace.Hope.Wisdom. Simplybeautiful wordsadorning anunreachableotherworldliness? Or compass totraverse theunknown spaceof todayand encounterpossibilities? Find grace,choose hope,cultivate wisdom.
For most of us, this is the most significant upheaval we’ve ever been through. However, I’d suggest that this time of change and chaos has an underlying tectonic shift, one that’s now gathering pace. There are many indications that this is the birth of the post-modern, post-industrial era. And the thing with births is that …
We all need hope. However, neither I nor anyone else can be your hope. As hard as we try, we will always fail you. And as much as we long for the comfortable assurance of a ‘silver bullet’ to put everything right, there isn’t one. There is no watertight quick fix. There can’t be because …
Because it’s time to change the conversation, for good. Have you noticed? We’re shifting from one era to the next. From the modern, industrial age where there were linear and predictable answers, to a complex, interconnected and volatile world. Where what we do affects who others become and impacts our whole environment, without us fully …
Is a posture, a way of seeing and being in the world, which changes everything. And because abundance is neither possessions nor a right, it’s not compatible with control. It’s a gift to enjoy and to share.
Are we waiting for the one, the right seed to plant? It can be tempting to wait for the perfect seed, the one that’s going to yield the most fruit and be the strongest version of itself. But this isn’t how nature works. Neither should we.
In and out, a natural flow, and we do it without thinking–most of the time. It’s an exchange of life that usually we take for granted. The rhythmic breathing of rest that tells us all is well. The deep breathing of changing atmospheres when we catch the smell of delicious food or delight in fresh …