The best part of this year has been Anna and Joe arriving to the house. There’s a list of Anna-isms…
Bus Stop Nativity
Where should we go looking for God? Advent means the “coming” or arrival of God. It’s a season of fasting…
Growing up
I was hanging out with a three year-old last week. He came into the kitchen to make an announcement. In…
Amsterdam to London with Bart
Amsterdam to London with BartBart is 98. His cells are leaving “in droves,”but he’s still signing card numbers to a…
The Art of Crying
I borrowed a short zine book from Kristin to read on the train the other week. Called “The Art of…
10 things I hate about cars
I still associate long car journeys with the excitement of going on holiday as a kid. I remember the fun…
Year 3 – cherry tree house
Earlier this year, Lucy sent me ‘Metaphysical Animals’ in the post. It profiles the philosophers Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth…
Living in a world of systems
I’ve just finished reading Donella Meadow’s seminal work ‘Thinking in Systems’. It’s excellent. The book goes through systems principles in…
What holds the swifts
The type of bright sunshine which gives grass an extra sort of lurid dimensionality is the same sort of sunshine…
The financial system
“Money is the oxygen on which the fire of global warming burns” Bill McKibben (Consider reading The Economy before you…
The Economy
“The sign of a healthy economy should be a drinkable river.” Li An Phoa We talk about “the economy” as…
Pink carnations
They filled the chamber with pink carnations that July day in 2013. A fragile splash of colour against the dark…
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