by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 13, 2020 | Developing Resilience, Opinions, Our Changing World, Personal Reflections
by Diana Ellis I spent some time this morning thinking about what I, as a concerned world citizen, am learning from this year’s Australian bushfires. There are three sets of people I know who live there – in Sydney, Melbourne, and in a small town further...
by suzukiwebmaster | Dec 19, 2019 | Developing Resilience, Our Changing World, Seeking Clarity
by Jeremy Adelman From all sides, the message is coming in: the world as we know it is on the verge of something really bad. From the Right, we hear that ‘West’ and ‘Judeo-Christian Civilisation’ are in the pincers of foreign infidels and native, hooded extremists....
by suzukiwebmaster | Dec 17, 2019 | Book Reviews
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer Hamish Hamilton | 2019 | 272 pages This is one of those books which deals with a divisive subject (climate change) and then creates yet more discord amongst readers because of the...
by suzukiwebmaster | Dec 11, 2019 | Personal Reflections
by Maureen Killoran Not gold, nor myrrh, nor even frankincense would I have for you this season, but simple gifts, the ones that are hardest to find, the ones that are perfect, even for those who have everything (if such there be). I would (if I could) have for you...
by suzukiwebmaster | Nov 27, 2019 | Developing Resilience, Rules of Engagement
by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Many of my best friends think that some of my deeply held beliefs about important issues are obviously false or even nonsense. Sometimes, they tell me so to my face. How can we still be friends? Part of the answer is that these friends and...
