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Death came a-knocking When all seemed quite Perfect Sloughing off Edges With the precision Of a Surgeon’s knife Cutting to the Core Until Soul was wide open Exposed to bright sunlight Heart’s beating, sore […]

Maria and I are back in Greece, after spending a week co-hosting the first Archinool gathering in Israel, with Vanessa (co-founder of the Living Wholeness Institute), Yitzhak, Elder of LWI, and Meni Rosenberg, passionate caller and inspirer of Archinool.  Our 2-day gathering – with 30 others from the region – explored the collaborative creation of power communal places and welcomed the expansion of the Archinool core team as one of its many outcomes. Our gathering was powerful – and Archinool breathed with more life – so that together, we will continue our work in the coming months in Israel. [...]

The Powers of Place Initiative - July PERSPECTIVES - features my short Essay: Power of the Evolutionary Edge "If you want to understand the power of the evolutionary edge, simply recall the fragility of a stalactite catching the newness of a droplet forming at its tip, having journeyed from ground level - through moss, stone, soil, rock itself - a miraculous slow-motion subterranean journey taking months, years or even thousands of years to create..." Sarah Whiteley: Powers of Place Initiative Correspondent

Yesterday, we went for lunch yesterday at Milina – on the inner gulf of the Pelion peninsular.  The winds were so strong that a deep sea swell sent water crashing over the edge onto the taverna floor.  We were requested to sit, in safety, on the other side of the road, closer to the inner table area, nearer the kitchen. Recognising the tender beginnings of cutting the cords and moving on earlier this morning, the rest of my day was beginning to open to seeing from new perspectives. […]

I was remembering that on August, 21st 2010, we hit Earth Overshoot Day: the day in which we exhaust our ecological budget for the year.. This year, it was 7th March 2011 I hadn’t even realised, until today, that I / We had overstepped the mark. As we enter the endeavor of Collaborative Space Making – creating a literal 100sqm footprint on the earth, the consequences of this build are deep and far-reaching.  The question I sit with, and Maria and I played with in different ways, since coming to the land is: Is Building Justified? This was explored in such terms as energy [...]

This evening I am back at Axladitsa – having left Athens at 5.30am this morning with Maria to travel 5.5 hours back to Pelion for an important appointment.  Maria is now back to Athens to journey to Brussels tomorrow for work.  A busy day – hence the delayed account from last night’s events in Syntagma Square. We were scheduled to host a World Café last night at 11pm.  We had sensed right timing the day before – both by members of the assembly core team in Syntagma and by ourselves – Maria, Anthi, Odysseas (not present to host this night [...]