morepraxis

When I read Mark Vernon i feel an enormous sense of relief – someone else has found the words to say for me. This article especially.
Hope is a central virtue in much self-help. It’s a key strength in the science of happiness too, defined as being optimistic and having a positive attitude towards the future. [...]

i was watching footage of the protests in the UK from the weekend, remembering wistfully the days when i had the energy to get angry about anything… and then i read this article in yesterday’s Age about the possibility that Neighbourhood Justice Centres and Koori Courts may be closed by the new Victorian state government, [...]

I don’t pass videos on much – there are too many brilliant things in the world to forever be sending them on. But this woman is wise and beautiful, and i need a bit more of that in my life today.
It’s a poetry reading and talk by Sarah Key at Ted 2011. i might [...]

yeah, i know, my understanding of physiology sucks. i care little about that.

from dirt to dirt
every part of our body comes from the life around us
grown by food and air and water
that shapes us into being.
even the very things that make our soul
- memories that tangle with experience
and
dreams and fears and
love
- are created and held [...]

I sent out invitations last week to the online learning group. i’ve had a couple of emails from people saying that the posterous invitation never arrived – if you were expecting one and it didn’t come, please let me know…

God? from cheryl lawrie on Vimeo.
I had a call yesterday from Hannah who wanted to throw around some ideas for a service she’s doing around the Japanese earthquake.
It used to be that my first reaction to a disaster like this would be to create a space to acknowledge it, but I’ve been watching some personal [...]

please be gentle with the edges of the world
please be gentle
or do not touch
[from Ernesto Neto's 2010 exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London]

i turned left at the highway
and walked into the desert.
an act of choice,
both of courage and of cowardice.
i am kept alive not by searching for the oasis
but by not being able to deny
I am alone
thirsty
broken
i give up believing otherwise
i give up …