• Where is the Centre of the World? Between your own two feet.

    Where is the Centre of the World? Between your own two feet.

    I’m sat in the ‘Ponder’ at my parents home in West Sussex, where I’m based for my Winter Holiday visit to the UK. The wind is whooping around and the blasts of rain on the glass roof and walls sound like pebbles on a tin roof.  Mum and Dad are in the cosy living room…

  • Narratives of “A Neo-Distributist Proposal”

    I’ve been thinking about Distributism as a post-growth political economy since reading Hillaire Belloc’s The Serville State a few year ago. In the article below, @ChrisSmaje (Author of #ASmallFarmFuture) outlines four commitments of a possible neo-distributist movement. “These are the four commitments ….as the essence of a neo-distributist movement. First, the autonomy-in-community of local livelihood-making,…

  • Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth

    Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth

    This Earth Day let’s look deeper at the problems behind the problems in our world. What would it mean for us to begin a discussion about changing the way we perceive the world and how we act in it? This Earth Day, ask yourself what’s the story you have about the Earth? What is your…

  • 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…

  • Putin’s “Master Narrative”

    Putin’s “Master Narrative”

    The importance of stories and narratives in our sense-making and deliberative process cannot be over-estimated. Stories are “the primary form by which human experience is made meaningful…Narrative meaning is a cognitive process that organises human experiences into temporally meaningful episodes.” (Polkinghorne, 1988) “ You start to answer the age-old question ’ What am I to…