Moving pictures can do strange things. Evoke memories. Stir old feelings. Videos recorded to VHS from the 90s and early 2000s have a vintage quality to them. Capturing the essence of moments, although clumsily. Filming conducted without the rapid feedback loops of today’s attention economy. Before the long long month… Read More »Choosing Steadiness: Awareness, Trust, and Movement in Challenging Times
Who will remember you? “I’m not bothered what people know of me in four generations.” “That’s narcissistic!” This is a paraphrased excerpt from a recent popular podcast. Eric Weinstein was calling Steven Bartlett a narcissist. Essentially for not caring if anyone remembered him in 120 years. Of course, they were… Read More »Personal legacy in a collapsing world
Children of tomorrow live in the tears that fall todayWill the sun rise up tomorrow bringing peace in any way? There’s a lot packed into these two lines. They come from Children of the Grave, by Black Sabbath. The track itself pulses with urgency, warning, and a kind of longing.… Read More »Disengagement, Doom, and the Courage to Love
“When do people get phones? And who teaches them how to use them?” My six-year-old son asked today. Implicit in the questions was an assumption. That getting a phone is a natural stage of the human life cycle. Like puberty or growing up. It struck me that it pretty much… Read More »Parenting Milestones: This could be the Last Time
That salute. Beating his chest and throwing his arm to the sky. Twice. The world’s richest man outing himself as the global king of controversy. There have been remarkable achievements in his lifetime, sure. Yet that’s tarnished now. Trashed. Revealed to be driven by a megalomanic urge to get to… Read More »On that salute: The starting gun for the techno fascist regime
Where there are humans, there is hope A strange take perhaps in a world which has thrown up a grand surprise of grimly epic proportions. The post of USA president has previously been categorized as ‘Leader of the Free World’. Recent events make a mockery of that idea. Somehow, over… Read More »On the World in 2025: There’s always hope, you know
An angry mob attempts to set fire to a hotel. Inside shelter people who have escaped untold trauma. Many (predominantly white men) take to the streets across the country. They set cars on fire, pelt the police, loot businesses. Fueled by misinformation. Enabled by inequality. It is all a disgrace.… Read More »Dealing with Hate: A Hopeful Migration Narrative
Reflections There will always be moments that give you cause to reflect. Three occurrences this week have already counted for me. They are perfectly normal, although quite distinct. Together they highlight pride, compassion, and above all, the importance of perspective. That’s the thing about life when seen through moments. Reflection… Read More »Life Through Moments: Pride, Compassion, and Perspective
Rampaging wildfires. Frequent floods. The looming threat of all-out war. Meanwhile environmental activists sit in prison cells awaiting trials. Welcome to 2024! Amidst the contemporary whirlwind of clickbait news, political turmoil, and social division, the essential conversations and actions towards climate justice have become increasingly sidelined. In the face of… Read More »On Climate Action: Small steps bring about a better tomorrow
The drums of war are beating. Conflict is boiling over. Spilling out from Ukraine and the Middle-East like magma flows from angry volcanic eruptions. At the same time politics seems gridlocked. Battle lines are being drawn up. The Western powers, some potentially underprepared, are waking up to the reality large-scale… Read More »Zen Buddhism and the coming War
Hard rain. Torrential rain. Rain that drums on the roof like it wants to get in. Accompanying gale force winds. Whipping through the trees, whistling and howling. Change has come to the weather. The last week of ice and frost with its pleasant, expansive open blue skies has given way… Read More »Change and Enlightenment the Zen Buddhist Way
Acceleration. It feels good to be moving. Hitting the pace. Autumn sunlight caresses the skyline and the bright yellows and subtle browns of my window view begin to blur as the train picks up speed. Swiftly approaching 120 miles per hour. Positioning my mind to have a good day, I… Read More »On Personal Development: Building People and Having Faith