An exploration of fear as ice on the road and how to navigate it. Recently, while cycling uphill in fog, I hit a patch of ice on the road. Suddenly my wheels were spinning but I was going nowhere fast. Sound a bit like your life this past year?…
How can art triumph over violence?
“Remember that your nations measure you by what you create and not by what you destroy.” What to do about the growing number of disappearing journalists, the escalating violence towards environmentalist activists, or concerned citizens who dare to speak up about pipelines going through their sacred grounds, or about their…
Attentional Violence
Photo by Francisco Arnela on Unsplash Attentional violence. This is what we do to the “uncool” people. To the foreigners. Or to all those who we took for part of the furniture when we moved in. To the rare birds who make us squirm in our grey-feathered sameness. To the…
The Return of Jennifer
Suddenly the name Jena feels too tight. And Jennifer has returned home, to remind me to step into a bigger, more authentic version of myself. She was a gift from my parents and only called on when it was “time to really get serious”. Therefore I’m happy to have her…
Is the best vaccine “I Sing the Body Electric”?
There’s a tectonic shift taking place in biological science. A change in perspective from a chemical model to an electrical model, particularly after John Beaulieu published his research into sound impacting healing/spiking nitric oxide in 2002. Source 1: Nitric Acid and Tuning Forks Cyclic Nitric Oxide Further studies followed. Now…
Shaken Awake
We are being shaken now. Perhaps shaken until we awaken. And some of us may feel more shaken than others. Some of us may feel overwhelmed. Uprooted, plucked or perhaps even dashed. If you are at the front line of the pandemic, my heart goes out to you. Thank you…
Solving problems through a change in perspective
“Distance lends enchantment to the view” Thomas Campbell Sometimes it seems much easier to solve other people’s problems than our own. They look so much tinier in comparison. This reminds me of the first time my son noticed a change in perspective. We were walking along a farm road with…
2020 – week 1, day 1
Day 1 – decisions decisions… The New Year started with a beautiful sunny day in my village, nearly 900 m above sea level. Could see the Alps right across Switzerland. Not a cloud in the sky. Decided to cycle down into the valley as I was meeting two friends for…