Contemplations...

In a period of transition towards a less workful life, I’ve been reflecting on a post I wrote nine years ago. It described the careful dismantling of a factory opposite my previous home*. In it, I wondered how we might pay more attention to the way we...

Recently, I ventured back to Five Winds School of T’ai Chi Chuan. I was last there in February 2020 – and we all know what happened next. With physical contact off-limits, I kept up my T’ai Chi Chuan practice by doing the beautiful solo forms of this...

I’m writing as I prepare to transition from time ‘out’ of the everyday world to being back ‘in’. Having published Approaching Difference Differently, it was important to regroup, recover and replenish, and I’d planned to spend some weeks on retreat on...

When writing the final chapters of Approaching Difference Differently, I coined the phrase ‘ending with the beginning in mind’. This reflects a premise that, for conversations that take place over a series of gatherings, it’s helpful to be aware of the...

In a comment on my previous post, a reader on Linked In observed that they’d love to have my ‘courage and commitment’. I responded that I believe we all have courage – just for different things. I added that, with clear intention, we can gradually expand...

Three months later than planned, my third book, Approaching Difference Differently, is in the layout process. This is a momentous staging post – for the first time I have a sense of it as a book, rather than a Word document. In general, I’m not good with...