Method in the muddle

A while ago, I wrote a post saying about how my brain lags about 3 weeks behind everyone else when I’m doing a course or a workshop or something similar, and that I’m usually in a total fuddle and have to let my brain just filter it through in its own...

Women in Philosophy

In this quarter’s Philosophy Magazine, there is an article asking Where Are All the Women?  Whilst there are roughly even numbers of men and women studying philosophy at undergraduate level, that number begins to have a male bias at MA level, and more so at PhD level,...

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...

The Power of Words

I love words.  They have the power to harm or to heal, to empower or to reduce, to inspire or to deflate.  I try to write a journal most days and I do that in the mornings, before the day’s tasks and “must dos” get in the way.  It’s a stream of consciousness thing –...