creating change without shouting
Ubunto is a Ngumi Bantu term for humanity. The whole phrase in Zulu is umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, meaning ‘a person is a person through other people’. Another way of saying it might be ‘I am because we are’ or ‘we don’t exist on our own.’ Just think about it – what are the chances of … Read more
I spied this gorgeously coloured leaf while walking up the green path in the late afternoon. Lying on a damp mat of mushed leaves, this one shone like a gilded emerald and took my breath away. It was the only one, and I wanted you to see it too. Because you are as distinctive as … Read more
Like the overnight appearance of fruiting bodies – mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi popping up through the leaf mould or grass – the fruit of our own lives has much deeper entangled origins than appears at first sight. Yet we continue to expect it to arrive ready-packaged, like mushrooms on the supermarket shelves. Divorced from … Read more
My thinking has been far too small. Too small for my mind and heart and too small for my soul. I am not just ‘me, myself and I’ I am ‘we, us and other’ connected by invisible threads that weave our cloak of personhood. And that changes everything.
When we stop to listen, we find new voices are emerging—those with the courage to speak about things that matter, without shouting. Voices that are curious about how and why things are, who ask questions that lay bare the status quo. Insights that arise from a breadth of perspective and enable us to see differently. … Read more
Being seen and being heard is far less about noise and much more about connection. Not connection with everyone, but connection with someone. And it starts with our connection with ourselves. If we don’t want to be known, then how can those who look at us or listen to our words hear anything more than … Read more