Perhaps we need to embrace our despair and soak a while. If we can, perhaps we can become the truly whole people we’re going to need to be if we’re to find any way forward, any way home, any way to life.
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More beating, more shaming, more wars only create more brokenness in the world, more wastelands as people bunker down in their corners. We need to invite people into the light, to a place that's safe, beyond right and wrong as Rumi so beautifully put it, to the field where we might actually find a path to life.
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It would give me great strength and inspiration to know that you were walking with me. It doesn’t have to be far, just 100m, just around the block. If you want to go further, terrific!! As I walk each day, I would find great joy in seeing your comments here telling me about a walk you did that day. A lunchtime break with friends and colleagues, a morning or evening walk or run with family, friends or on your own.
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The only way we will ever successfully grapple with deforestation and other similarly complex environmental problems is to sit down, person to person, and speak with everyone involved to find a way forward.
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Do you love the night because it is beautiful? Do you love the night because of the things you can see? Do you love the night because of how fun it is, or do you love the night because you are with me?
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The findings from Roisin Mortimer's Masters study on the role of values in NDPs are intriguing and suggest we need more collaboration between companies and NGOs if NDPs are to lead to real transformation.
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Why boys might suffer more than girls is beyond me but it needs research, it needs thinking, discussion and I suspect it needs a lot to change.
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Why "Worms for Peace"? Because we believe that if we work to heal the land, we stand a chance of healing the relationships between people. Fingers crossed.
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It's been an interesting week! Time to look beyond what we've seen and share some thoughts.
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Tales of sustainable fashion and what it means to be human. Meg and Gab are Walk Sew Good. They walked a swag of kilometres across 4 SE Asian countries to raise awareness of sustainable fashion. At the same time, they learned a lot about the wonders of humanity. Here's my Cooee! podcast with Gab and Meg, two champions of the human race.
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Hilary Thompson is an inspiration. She has worked tirelessly all her life to protect workers – young and old - across a vast array of cultures and contexts - to help them and keep them safe
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Cutting emissions is great, but it’s like cutting your rubbish by 20% and then dumping what’s left in front of the town hall. We need to reduce the size of the trash heap before it smothers us. We need to start the clean up.
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