Edges: light and timeless

Wild edges, small islands, the middle of the North Atlantic. These are places where we melt, become timeless, spaces beyond interpenetrate us.

Rannoch moor: and wild beauty

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.

Last breath: requiems, grief and joy

For friends, family and life everywhere. Hold our breaths with Ane Brun and Robert Louis Stevenson. Land, light, song-poems and storm reflections.

Consciousness: and earth

Consciousness: and earth

We are shifting to re-recognize our deep interconnections with the world around us.

This is not new and can be held lightly, not dis-acknowledging science but going beyond current limitations.

Intergenerationally, Walt Whitman does this beautifully. Explore the conscious connections with Walt and enjoy!

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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…

Touch of life

Touch of life

he day has arrivedLoneliness slips awayTouch of Life 14 months numbSkin runs coldFlow of blood suspendedFrozen over like iceDays grow longerMy shell sheds awayThe memory of you 1 week remainsThe darkness fadesPrickling pinsdance gleefully on my...

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Re-creating relatedness: a meta shift

Re-creating relatedness: a meta shift

In the crises around us we are the problems and also the solutions. That’s a thinking pattern shift. From individual to collective.

How can we assist this for thriving in the hear and now as well as the future?

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An initiation: and a koan

An initiation: and a koan

A koan is a dilemma, a mystery which the rational mind cannot solve—our global village.

We are part of the world. Yet, how can we be initiated into caring for everything? Even knowing we’re connected to it all.

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Festina Lente

Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally

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“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.

- Festina LentÍvaldi