Light illuminates. It shows up what is there and brings colour to life. Words illuminate. They dispense understanding and expose meaning. Emotions illuminate, demonstrating impact where we can’t always see it. And love illuminates when we least expect it. … There is something about the angle of the early morning sun that fills this small …
These three words create one of the most liberating and devastating phrases in our vocabulary. Ten characters that we either speak as invitation or resignation. What are they to you?
I love this emerging community of people who care about words. Who pay attention to meaning and context. Who want to inspire change by crafting, without shouting. This delight in words and communication in its many forms gives me hope for our world. After all, it’s the thoughtful and creative makers of change who have …
Alan Moore, in his brilliant new book, Do Build: How to make and lead a business the world needs, asks: How will the language we use define us? Pause and sit with his musings: All culture starts with language. Language is meaning-making; it frames and holds worldviews. Look at our current world and see how …
Isn’t this a beautiful and evocative phrase: the care of words? I heard it listening to Krista Tippett talking with the Northern Irish poet, Michael Longley, in a re-run of the 2016 On Being podcast: The Vitality of Ordinary Things. The care of words. It invites us to consider how we hold our words and …
Nothing is wasted. At least it needn’t be. Therefore, I am heartened by the emerging shift in language from sustainability to regeneration. There is a healthy debate about why the words we use are important because they frame how we see the world around us, including our reciprocal relationships. Here’s the thing: sustainability can have …
Musing on shifting stones and the obstacles we perceive as permanent, I wrote a list of all the things I knew were both true and positive about our current challenges. Overnight, what had felt insurmountable was reframed, and my stuckness dissolved. Gratitude – naming our blessings – is the only way I knew how to …
Things are not always what they seem. What we take for barriers, things that stop us from moving forward, may melt in the sun. Yet, so often, we encounter an obstacle and think it is permanent. When in fact, it may only be a pause.
I love this photograph. It conveys so much depth, texture and fluidity. And I love the place. It’s the brook at the top of the valley beyond the water gate but still within the boundary of the original Victorian reservoir. What I especially like about the image is that it invites us to look more …
