by suzukiwebmaster | Sep 7, 2020 | Advocacy, Developing Resilience, Green Perspective
by Stan Hirst Have just watched the excellent film Metamorphosis. In its prologue the film seeks to bear witness to a moment of profound change – the loss of one world, and the birth of another. The film exposes us to scenes of forest fires consuming...
by suzukiwebmaster | Aug 19, 2020 | Book Reviews, Developing Resilience
Life Is In The Transitions: Mastering Change At Any Age by Bruce Feiler Penguin Random House LLC 2020| 368pp. Believe it or not, we are now in the ninth month of the COVID-19 crisis. According to the WHO the present epidemic raised its spiky viral head for the first...
by suzukiwebmaster | Aug 12, 2020 | Developing Resilience, Green Perspective, Seeking Clarity, Species & Ecosystems
by Stan Hirst A fine alliterative title, but it presents a problem in visioning. Just what does a trillion trees actually look like? What size area would, or could they cover? The story starts with Kenyan Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) who, while serving in the National...
by suzukiwebmaster | May 20, 2020 | Developing Resilience, Green Perspective
Creating a renewed sense of place, block by block by Erlene Woollard and Patricia Plackett “Lord, make me pure, but not yet!” No doubt when St. Augustine uttered this prayer in about 380 AD he was not thinking about being pure in the sense of his ‘carbon footprint’....
by suzukiwebmaster | May 5, 2020 | Developing Resilience
by Emrys Westacott The good life is the simple life. Among philosophical ideas about how we should live, this one is a hardy perennial; from Socrates to Thoreau, from the Buddha to Wendell Berry, thinkers have been peddling it for more than two millennia. And it still...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 8, 2020 | Developing Resilience, Personal Reflections
by Thuy-vy Nguyen Solitude has become a topic of fascination in modern Western societies because we believe it is a lost art – often craved, yet so seldom found. It might seem as if we ought to walk away from society completely to find peaceful moments for ourselves....
