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Ordinary Things

One of the side effects of illness and injury (in my case a slipped disk) can be that your world becomes smaller.

Get up and dance!

Maria Popova’s Brainpickings is one of the great joys of the Internet, so it seems churlish to quibble with something

The Wonder of Poohsticks

Walking one of my habitual routes this morning, I stopped by a bridge to play Poohsticks (with myself). One of

For Free

I wrote this originally as an email to my fellow students on the Ashridge Master’s in Sustainability and Responsibility. It

Sheep, Geese, Humans and Worldviews

There are significant groups of people around the world, whose recent electoral behaviour is, shall we say, hard to understand

Sheep

Today we were walking along a narrow path by the river. The path is 2 people wide with a fence

My Master’s project and papers. On Walking, Music and Sustainability

First the project report, which was the main deliverable. Ashridge MSc Sustainability and Responsibility (AMSR). Project Report And then the

Silly Goose

I’m in the, for me, novel position of looking after some geese these days. This usually involves nothing more than

Quantum Psycholosography

Why is everything so damned interesting? Some social media friends and I were discussing the huge amount of interesting (and

This Is Winter Too, (This is Nature Too)

This started out as a photo essay on winter. And then I read an article that disturbed me. I’m a

Winter

Winter is life. Winter is alive. That’s enough words. I’ll get propositional about this some other time. Here are a

Small worlds – Splintered thoughts

Oliver’s Question My friend Oliver Baier (@OliverBaier) recently tweeted: “Has #RBPEA just become bigger and more urgent in 2016? People

Baynes and Bateson

Back in November we said goodbye to a lovely guy and one of the finest musicians I’ve ever played with, Ifor

A few thoughts on (re)enchantment

Several people reacted to my last blog with the reasonable question of how we can maintain/retain the sensation of enchantment