The ancients were wise. They understood that there was no separation between mankind and nature, and that one extended the other; and that all things were part of one verse, the universe. Evidence of this comes in their predilection for fables and proverbs where the natural world has important messages for us. ‘Go to theContinue reading “How to Grow Roses and People!”
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Motivation and the wild wild sea
Finally, I launch myself in – into the gentle waves and I am immersed in the freezing cold. My hands especially feel it – my core tries to resist. But what joy as the current takes me, and as I flip and flop and attempt this stroke and then that, and know I am back. Yes, back from the sunless rooms and corridors and into the light and into the sea. The wild, wild sea – turbulent as all my motivations, inspiring me to live, provoking me to embrace the wholeness, the wideness of every uncontrollable atom of existence.
WINTER MOTIVATION
Hello everyone – and happy New Year. What challenges lie ahead, and how are we going to cope with them? As I write this my garden – here in the South of England – is coated white. In the twenty years I have lived in Bournemouth I have never seen so much snow andContinue reading “WINTER MOTIVATION”
The Mapping Motivation Series 