June 12, 2017
My son made me laugh. He was creating his own reality in Minecraft which is, for the uninitiated, a sort of video Lego with knobs on. I was watching him harvest the sugar cane he had grown, and I asked him why he had grown so much. He told me he could cut it down and […]
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June 10, 2017
Last weekend there was a great article in the Guardian entitled “The great self esteem con” in which writer Will Storr tells the story of Californian politician John Vasconcellos and his misguided and deceitful attempt to improve society through raising levels of self esteem. The idea of self esteem being “low” or “high” is dangerous […]
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June 4, 2017
This week I seem to have been struck, from all angles, by examples of injustice. Bad behaviour too easily tolerated, disappointment coupled with powerlessness, and all of it coloured with a wash of “how can I get my view across so effectively that others change theirs?”. It’s hard when we’re fixated on who’s right and […]
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May 31, 2017
Recently my colleague Martin Pankhurst and I have been working on the creation of online programmes to support people with dependency issues and for the people who live with them. We tend to think of addiction as meaning drugs and alcohol, but there is a vast spectrum of ways in which dependency and addiction can […]
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May 31, 2017
There is a poem by Rumi about a chickpea. Every time the little seed believes itself to be cooked it rises to the top of the stew and declares its readiness to the chef at which point it is thrust back down into the bubbling liquid with one lusty thrust of the ladle to keep […]
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