Tag: human
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We are
We are Hungry for life Rainforest, teeming Beautiful and ferocious We are Ignorant, with knowledge Awake at night Hoping to be wrong We are Nature, with rights Displaced from culture Colonised, with institution We are Destruction at scale The unacceptable acceptance Of a shifting baseline We are Learning to live with fire And saltwater in… Read more
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Less
Less is more Warmer than you thought Harder than you expected Slower than you wanted Older than you believed Surprise after surprise Brighter than you felt Stronger than you looked Spicer than you let show Kinder when you let go Different altogether The same Tightening up A change in perspective One day restrictive The other… Read more
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Zen and the art of saving the planet
At the end of 2024, I undertook the Zen and the art of saving the planet course by Plum Village, rooted in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings. It served as a great companion as I navigated and transformed through challenging times. A couple of months later, conscious of my own memory limits and knowing that one of… Read more
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We are nature
Curious about the stories we tell ourselves beyond the realm of words, I’m lightheartedly playing with bringing some of my poetry to life with visual imagery. It feels like adding other dimensions might help reflect some of the nuance and texture. Or maybe it is a clever trick to put less pressure on the words?… Read more
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becoming
Outside in Funny You can’t really escape it The noise You thought you might come out To find peace But it seems the noise is out too Maybe it is inside out Maybe you can find the quiet in Even when it is loud out Some days you might need to accept It is loud… Read more
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Web of Patterns
Writing for remembering ‘You lay down a path in walking’. Antonio Machado I have just come out of an intense expedition into Jeremy Lent’s work, having devoured his incredibly well crafted books: The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning over the past 5 days. I felt in such intense connection with the learning process… Read more
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Inner Nature
From Nature to Inner Development Goals Last week, fascinated by the potential that becoming more aware about Nature’s ways of doing could teach us, I proposed a Nature-inspired project design framework, with the intention to help guide the ways in which we design, conduct and sustain projects. This week, I am reading about the Inner… Read more
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Community
The spiral of connection Perched little mammal About to meet a friend She doesn’t know them yet But she can tell She can tell she is already connected to them Perhaps not a big gamble since we all are But she can tell They are closer than they know And as always there is no… Read more
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End and Start
A few words for the humans I had the pleasure to work with for the past year and half: How do I feel? Peaceful and calm Sunny and free Grateful to be here today And elsewhere tomorrow What comes next, you ask? Life and its many surprises, I say ‘When you press the pause button… Read more
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You are the universe
Our perception of reality Sometimes I am not sure whether to stand in absolute awe or to laugh about some of the paradoxes we live within Grasping the fullness of what these might reveal seemingly appearing on the spectrum between tantalising and utterly absurd Most of us too busy busying ourselves with trivial activities that… Read more