From the word ‘Humus’ come many of the words for being human and humility. For millennia and across many cultures, walking with your bare feet in the earth has been a sign of humility.
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Rationing your attention for yourself, your body and your surroundings
The world is full of calls to our full attention often for stupid, trivial, toxic or dangerous and violent ideologies. So to pay attention to yourself, your own bodily corporeal existence and the sensory experience of the things around you becomes an act of rebellion. Against the corporate treadmill pumping out stuff that you neverContinue reading “Rationing your attention for yourself, your body and your surroundings”
Powerful Thought: The dead bird urges you to write
Rachel Carson was urged to write ‘Silent Spring’ by the dead birds she held in her hands who called her to write.
She could not live, knowing what she had learned about DDT, without speaking, without – her gift – lifting her pen to write.
