creating change without shouting
Yesterday, on the longest day of the year, I took this long view of the lake. The day, like the lake, stretched out before me. Yet with the awareness that this day, was like no other. At this inflexion point of the year, the long view is surprisingly open. The usual noise has stilled, and … Read more
There is an after. But it’s not a straight line. It isn’t a line at all. Instead, it’s a series of choices made hour by hour, day by day, week by week. Whose path you only glimpse as you turn around and look back. Like wandering through a meadow before the wind brushes the traces … Read more
This morning I sat on rocks down by the lakeside that would normally be submerged underwater. You see things very differently from here. I wondered how we need to shift our vocabulary for the new normal? In one sense we’ve been making this transition for a while, but we now have the opportunity to see … Read more
A chilly north wind invited a different path this morning. And the sunshine across the lake beckoned. Higher up and more open than my usual woodland thinking space. Plus a bank to sit on and observe the diversity of life all around. However, seeing more means I can be seen too. That comes with the … Read more
No, we are not living an extended examination. A mammoth test of whether we know the right answer… There isn’t one. Instead, I wonder whether the questions we are asking – of ourselves and for ourselves – are changing in this season. Is the question that is top of your pile the same as it … Read more