What do we have to struggle against if we are going to be free to dream?
A revolution of the mind
The art of the semicolon
Endings, beginnings, and the spaces in between
Human to human
We do need to take back control, but control of our lives, our emotional integrity, our thoughts and our own agency
Heading for the exit
My overnight stop in Barcelona was a welcome opportunity to step back from the fallout from ‘Brexit’
Dreams bigger than ballot boxes
The creative, collaborative, peace-seeking approach that has been in evidence during this elections suggests something that will have long term significance…
Courage and resistance
Perhaps the context in which we can best make sense of our lives is not an atomised, individualistic one, but rather outward looking, ‘other’ focused, collective…
The power of one
The story of the lovely garden Jardin del Turia, from what I’ve read, is one of people working together and resisting plans to turn it into a motorway
Scratching at the veneer of normality
Those who insist that the current system is working rely on us being complacent and our failure to look beyond the superficial
Living in a material world
Paul Mason’s argument that we should focus on building the new system within the old offers an outline of things I sense will be important in the new landscape
Finding the light
Rainer Maria Rilke’s language of being in the darkness makes a useful connection between writing and exploration, the process of moving blindly towards the discovery of something new