Sometimes there is synchronicity, and then, there is synchronicity….I find Sally’s blog at www.sallylever.co.uk often chimes with things I’m thinking about. I decided to contact her and ask if she wanted to do reciprocal guest posts – I’m keen to build a sense of community here and in the rest of my life. [...]
A little success
Well sometimes life has a funny way of delivering what you hope for, right at the final moment. There I was returning from a stroll through Norton Common. Whilst I was out I was thinking about this post and the sad fact that I’d made no progress on the neighbour front. Then [...]
Little did I realise that the month I chose to focus on travel and transport would be a month when I would be doing a fair bit of travelling. I’m also not going to be online that much during October, so the weekly blog posts may be down to one or two. Anyway, my [...]
For the regular readers amongst you, you may be noticing a few changes to the website and on the blog. As you know, I’ve been making some lifestyle and career changes and now I’m ready to really focus on acting out what I’ve been hoping to do, and tinkering with, for some time. In particular, I’m [...]
I love reading Oliver Burkeman’s columns from The Guardian. There’s usually something that finds me nodding my head vigorously in agreement going ‘That’s just what I’ve been thinking.’ This week it was on when being radical isn’t being radical, i.e. still operating within the same overall [...]
Did you see The Big Silence on BBC2 (UK) last Friday? It was part 1 of 4 about a group of individuals who have signed for a 8-day silent retreat. At the end of Part 1 the clips of the next episode suggest that they didn’t find it easy. Having read, and loved, [...]
In my quest to find people who are doing business differently and making a real contribution to a better world, I met Julie Hadley. The first thing you realise about Julie when you meet her is simply what a lovely, warm, funny and down-to-earth human being she is. Her story really interested me [...]
A very quick post to say that I discovered some time ago that Tobias Jones, the author of ‘Utopian Dreams’ mentioned in the post on idealism, was setting up a sort of woodland community. Well him and his family are about a year in and he will be writing about their experiences in the Family [...]
I’m currently working my way through ‘Prosperity Without Growth’ by Tim Jackson on a new form of economics. Once I’ve finished it, I’ll summarise my thoughts on here but essentially the premise is that economic success linked to GNP and growth may not be the best way to go.
At the same time, [...]
A few weeks ago I saw a snippet on my local news about a community project in Suffolk, England. The Debenham Project aims to give practical and emotional support to people in the local area who are caring for someone with dementia. The key focus is on providing this support locally via local people [...]
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