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Seeing from New Perspectives
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. […]
Something is wrong with our money system. Duh.
“Something is wrong with the global financial system. International financial crises or near-crises have become regular events… The question is not whether there will be another crisis, but where it will be.” —Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, 2003 It couldn’t be better timing. I’m reading New Money for a New World, a forthcoming book by economist Bernard Lietaer and co-author Stefan Belgin that examines the systemic failures of our current money system. Meantime, U.S. politicians are offering up drama, paradox, contradiction and befuddlement as we tumble toward the prospect of defaulting on our nation’s debt. […]
Can you Hear IT?
Can you hear the whisper? A call that is barely audible… Can you hear it beyond the cacophony? Of revolution – even evolution What is it saying? AERA – ELEFTHERIA – FREEDOM What does it mean? Be our natural, wild and whole selves Be – come – sensual […]
Liberating Structures
The elegance of physical form greeted my camera lens yesterday evening. Statuesque structures rising out of the base frame, etching the beginnings of a shape the will be a home to so much in the future. I have been musing this week about how this building process has been consistently inviting me to let go – to liberate, transcend and include the next level of form – again and again. Every day I see a shift in the physical creation – and have to let go of any attachment to what it was like before. It is developing, evolving… […]
Walking Out Over and Over Again
Author: Lex Schroeder We often become walkouts long before we call ourselves walkouts. We make choices to walk out of systems, lifestyles, and beliefs that no longer serve us long before we understand ourselves as walkouts or find our new community. We do what we need to do unconsciously at first, not realizing the self-preserving choices we’ve made until later. Good choices happen just like bad choices—while we’re busy living our lives, sometimes without us noticing and almost always without us fully comprehending. At least this has been my experience. […]
Sacred Act of Hospicing the Dying
I was privileged to know Tony Scordialos, father of Anna, Stella and Maria. I was even more privileged to be part of his care, in the final years of his life. He had multiple and conflicting life-threatening health issues that required the skills of a number of specialist physicians to come to his aid. In essence, they all clearly worked for the good of Kyrie (Mr) Tony – yet, they worked in medical ‘silos’ – and so their diagnoses were mainly coherent, yet sometimes disturbingly conflicting – sometimes one exacerbating the issues for another doctor to attend to – and certainly for the patient health as a whole. One particular morning, to the family’s utter distress, two doctor’s debated heatedly how they should proceed across the bed of the increasingly distressed patient. The family demanded that them to leave – and to continue their discussion outside. The sacred space of care and hospicing was being violated and needed protection. […]
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