What’s the one luxury you can’t live without? If you ever find yourself in a time of great stress and upsetting circumstances, the natural world wants to calm and sooth you, if you get outside and start to observe things yourself, you will see. In parks, large trunked trees swing and sway in the wind.Continue reading “Tree spirits, ghost gums and animal familiars”
Tag Archives: Philosophy
Book Review: Kindred Neanderthal Life Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
If you are anything like me and are fascinated by pre-history when oversized marsupials ruled Australia and there were multiple species of humans wandering around, then you absolutely must read this book. It’s a magnum opus of the Neanderthal world. #Bookreview #Ancient #History
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #127
Enjoy a gigantic fluffy cat getting groomed, Leonor Fini’s wisdom and deeply comforting art, some funky Italodisco, intricate Japanese artistry, genre-shifting music recommendations and much more, it’s edition #127 of #InterestingThings by #ContentCatnip!
Book Review: The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller
Have you ever wondered where the original ideas in mathematics, astronomy, #science, medicine, #philosophy ever came from? The answers to these questions are in this remarkable #history book #nonfiction #philosophy
Ok Doomer: Are Millennials ‘Generation Exhausted’?
Covid and endless inflation, AI and global conflicts, misinformation and political instability. Climate change and extinction. The world is full of unknowns and bin fires at the moment. All of the above unknowns are getting onto my head like a low-key buzzing static sound just below perceptible human hearing. Animals hear it. Plants hear it.Continue reading “Ok Doomer: Are Millennials ‘Generation Exhausted’?”
Comforting Thought A frog in a well never knows the vast ocean
There is an ancient Taoist expression that ‘A frog in a well never knows the vast ocean’. This is a reminder to be humble and to accept the world as being vast, with our own knowledge of it limited. We must never assume to have the answers to everything, but instead be humble students.
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #126
A mesmeric trance session to put your feet up to or dance the night away, an interesting infographic about types of intelligence, cities with rude names, dog reflections, news caption fails, vegetable bahn mi tacos and much more, it’s edition #162.
Travel: The Enchanting Ogród Botaniczny of Kraków
The Ogród Botaniczny of Kraków has a long scientific heritage that dates back to 1783. They are the oldest scientific gardens in Poland and were established by Professor Józef Bogumił Rogaliński.
Throughout this time many inquisitive and curious minds have peered into the depths of floral wonders and the garden was pivotal during the Enlightenment period in Poland, as a centre for botanical research and the dissemination of botanical knowledge across Europe.
36 Questions for Creating Closeness
At many times in my #life I’ve felt like I was alone and this made me feel extremely sad and lost. However in contrast, the really best times of my life have been where I’ve bridged that gap and managed to develop a genuine and real #connection with someone and formed a meaningful #friendship or #relationship. Here are 36 questions that help to create closeness.
Comforting Thought: The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
— Wendell Berry
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