sp/ns (simple please, not simplistic) is supporting a new meme. The more commonly used tl/dr (too long, did not read) has outlived its usefulness 
A shift from conceptual to perceptual and how do I feel now?
I’m massively buoyed by all of the extraordinary collaborative components that are allowing and validating the positive changes within us all. You’ll see how alive this set of connections is in me in the cover picture too.
A fracture, the slope I am on starts avalanching.
This is a piece on embracing pain and fear. You’ll find there’s a signal there for you.
Happy new year. What a time! So much is unclear—what gorgeous and fractious directions will our societies take?
Our new year, seems like quite a meeting point. This enklavene is from the obsure to clear with neither diminishing the intensity of the other.
Samhain. Winter
The nights draw in.
Breathe in the lassitude and hold open connections to spring and re-emergence.
Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Lynette Thorstensen and Sushant Shrestha, in this presentation, part of a Transformative Climate Advocacy program session, showcase the power of a diversity of perspectives, people and approaches.
Wild edges, small islands, the middle of the North Atlantic. These are places where we melt, become timeless, spaces beyond interpenetrate us.
From the wilds of the far northern Atlantic coasts. The near impossible, being alone and deeply connected to humanity, comes viscerally alive in the wind.
Please join us for this virtual walking meditation.
24 hours, in 10 minutes at Calanais. You-I-we will step through time. Physically it is 2021. Virtually, millenia in the past and future.
Local, extraordinary economic solutions are limited by modern-day expectations. We can Bounce Beyond that by bringing these economies together.
Steve Waddell explains transformation systems that are allowing local brilliance to thrive and shift global structures.
A short trip over Rannoch Moor down to Kinlochleven then across the sea to Skye.
Scotland has its wild surprises. Some in poetry and pictures.
For friends, family and life everywhere. Hold our breaths with Ane Brun and Robert Louis Stevenson. Land, light, song-poems and storm reflections.
It’s rainbow season in the north. The rains are washing the skies, crystal clarity emerges from deluges. That does not mean the wildness and storms are passed. Read on as Emily Dickinson explains…
When we’re pushed to the edge and surrounded by disequilibrium are there places of grace?
Here are some resources and connections, links to the regular changes around us, for sources of magic and miracles.
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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