Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. George R.R. Martin The planet is a self-regulating, self-healing organism. Climate change is not a threat to the planet. Climate change is a threat to us. To humans. To the animals (us among them) and plants, to the ecosystems that exist right now. We […]
A Spiritual Reason Not To Stay Indifferent To Climate Change
The greatest danger to our future is apathy. Jane Goodall I had a strange conversation with someone yesterday. A person who happens to be a spiritual leader, teacher and author – a person many look up to, and by whom many are guided. A person I consider a friend. (No, I’m not going to name […]
Focus on what matters!
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! Leonardo da Vinci Hi, Lovelies. During a channelling session at my recent retreat, a simple but powerful message was delivered to us. Focus on what matters. Don’t focus on how a message is delivered, or the looks of the person who is delivering the […]
10 Simple Everyday Actions To Help The Planet
“The future depends on what you do today.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi I know, I know. Sometimes it seems positively overwhelming, the state of our Planet – how big the mess is and how small we can feel as just one person. But as one person we CAN make a difference. Here are ten simple everyday […]
A Small But Positive Sign In The Shape Of A Snail
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” ~ Oprah Winfrey When we holidayed with a friend and her family early this year, her small children asked me what I had done to earn pocket money when I was little. We didn’t get pocket money when we were growing up, […]
Things Not To Get Me For Christmas
“We no longer live life. We consume it.” ~ Vicki Robin When I was a kid, Christmas was something to look forward to. We’d get a new toy or two, maybe a book (mine was always books), a dress or a t-shirt, socks and undies. The toys would last us for the year, the […]
Adapting to Change
“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the […]
Kindness Challenge – Week Five
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ~ John Muir It’s fitting, in a way, that I couldn’t bring you last week’s kindness challenge due to in part to the extreme weather events we were experiencing in our part of the world. But here we are. On with the challenge! […]
What the Frack?
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: “With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight […]