Touch of life

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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?

Sunlight: and clouds

Seeing in and between the clouds

At sea: and plenteous peaks

At sea: and plenteous peaks

What widens us, asks Walt Whitman as wonders, sights and sounds roll off his writing into me.

This enklavene is the seas and water all around us, our approach to the oceans and the spaces these resonate within us.

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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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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…

Chalanais

Chalanais

Settle down in the sea of destruction,
Without harm and without fear;

Rise up on the peaceful arc,
As a young queen in bloom.

Sunset and sunrise at Chalanais through the solstice.

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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