On my nightstand: This year’s (2013) winner of the Dundee International Book Prize: In the Rosary Garden by Nicola White Healthy never tasted so good: The Life Changing Loaf of Bread Stan Raucher’s photos from subways around the world, a glimpse of everyday human intimacy. My favourite, the one from Metro Line 3 Mexico City:Continue reading “Fab Friday Links: from subway pics to woodland whimsy”
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One of the Quotations I Keep on my Office Wall
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence…. The frenzy of the activistContinue reading “One of the Quotations I Keep on my Office Wall”
Meeting up with a Long Lost Friend
Three months ago, after an absence of years, I picked up a pen, dug out an empty book and started journalling again. It’s felt like getting reacquainted with a good friend I’d lost touch with. From my early teens I was a devoted journal writer. The first journal I filled was “A Walk Through the Shire”Continue reading “Meeting up with a Long Lost Friend”
Restorying the Earth 