The Slow Movement
Time is a subject that is constantly up for discussion and rumination, and it’s rearing its head again. Yesterday, I was reading through my emails and came across a link to an arts project in the UK - http://makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com/page/2/ so I went to...
Persistence – or Little By Little Catchee Monkey
You know how a day can sometimes take on a theme of its own? Well today’s the day for persistence, accumulation, or little by little catchee monkey. I weighed myself this morning – something I knew I shouldn’t do really – but I decided I needed to know how much extra...
Interaction
I am intrinsically a loner, except when I’m with other weavers. It’s not that I’m socially inept – far from it, I hope – but that I choose whose company I wish to be in. I can occasionally do ‘hail fellow, well met’ types of conversation, but general girly...
Protectionism
Just in case you are wondering, this isn’t a blog about our current economic climate. It’s actually about our local farmers and the change of generations. One thing that has been of particular pleasure to me in my neck of the woods is the willingness of local farmers...
Making Space for Change
I may have mentioned before that I am a Psychologies reader. This morning, whilst reading a piece on the healing properties of trees with my early morning cuppa, I read a short paragraph from a reader who said “I was drawn to a large tree standing alone. It had...
Time
Time is something we feel we have so little of, and we frantically rush around trying to get things done in the time that we have. But of course, time is an artificial construct – a man-made construct which is supposed to be there to be a framework. Yet, as with so...
Coming to our Senses
I've recently been posting about listening to what's going on in nature around me when I'm walking, and I was really pleased to see a whole section in the 2nd edition of 2009 of TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine - about coming to our senses - appreciating and using all...
Man and Nature
Somehow a city seen from a few hundred yards up at night is more alive to me than one seen during the day. During the day, the skyscrapers shout for attention, their static solidity commanding your gaze. At night it is the movement of lights that gives the city its...
Mindfulness Take 2
You know how suddenly everything grows and puts on its coat of green? Well this week in my corner of the world, spring has suddenly sprung. Leaves are popping up all over the place, and suddenly the world looks less bare and forlorn. It's amazing how it happens...