Samhain: A halloween festival of change

We have gotten it all wrong. I-you-us, in our ability to matter and to make a significant difference for ourselves, for the crises around us, are not stuck in our ways.

Rainbows: our hearts leap up

My heart leaps up

So often, so true—I can feel these rainbows and waterfalls, from 2 continents, living inside me, lighting me up and connecting me beyond myself.

Lights, camera, simplicity: short videos cutting through complexity

Simple please, not simplistic.

Easily said but hard to do in our complex world. Music, poetry, pictures can all help the narratives. Enjoy these short videos!

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…

Behold: The sky is on fire

Behold: The sky is on fire

You turn up your face, back bent,
arms outstretched, so that if the sky
scoops you up, you will be ready to be lifted.

From this moment on,
you regret nothing.

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Marianne’s poem: Mayan for clarity

Marianne’s poem: Mayan for clarity

The wind assured her that he would recite her poem before each sunrise… By Earl King and Malcolm King-Fontana. Click for the full poem and/or play it, read by Greg Brown. “I would like my name to be Kumasaka, Mayan for clarity coming…”

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Dazzling Darkness: The view from our planet

Dazzling Darkness: The view from our planet

How can we create pathways between what David Whyte describes as our inner world and the outer world of the yet-to-be-discovered? Pathways that lead us through the close passage of endings and onto the tender ground of what is coming to be.

How do we manage this, particularly, in those darkest of early dawn hours when the light of new day has yet to illumine our next steps. In this exquisite letter, David explores the frontier conversations that can help us navigate both the dazzle and the darkness.

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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