Category: Resilience

  • Collapse Now and Avoid The Rush

    Collapse Now and Avoid The Rush

    “We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or put ourselves to sleep.” Pema Chodron (1996) When Things Fall Apart This short post is largely a personal reflection on barriers that keep us from thinking about the possibility (inevitably?) of social collapse. Unbelievably this is the first post of mine for nearly 9 months!…

  • Democracy: An Appropriate Scale?

    Democracy: An Appropriate Scale?

    I’m very grateful to live in a democracy , but its clear that democracy is struggling to deliver for everyone, everywhere, right now. Could that be because it has an appropriate scale? There is something about our culture in the Globalized North that we tip our hats to hierarchies of power, and expect the most…

  • Stories Are All Around Us Part 1: Reflections after Narrative Basecamp Session 1

    Stories Are All Around Us Part 1: Reflections after Narrative Basecamp Session 1

    Many years ago in my early 20s when I first started walking in the landscapes UK just for the sheer pleasure of it, I might find a track along the edge of a field, or between two fields, bordered on both or either side by a hedgerow. I would walk along side it, comprehending the…

  • Grasping The Sparrow’s Tail: Thoughts on Inviting Movement Back into our Lives.

    Grasping The Sparrow’s Tail: Thoughts on Inviting Movement Back into our Lives.

    I let my intuition explore connections between shifts in seasonal farming patterns, Graber and Wengrow’s ‘The Dawn of Everything’, Tai Chi and Panarchy, and the importance of metaphors, stories and narratives in understanding and action.

  • The hedger and John Clare

    The hedger and John Clare

    Each hedge is loaded thick wi greenAnd where the hedger late hath beenTender shoots begin to growFrom the mossy stumps belowWhile sheep and cow that teaze the grainwill nip them to the root againThey lay their bill and mittens byeAnd on to other labours hie John Clare, in ‘May’ from ‘The Shepherds Calendar’ (1827) We can’t let…