What on Earth is going on? That’s the refrain that’s been building to a crescendo over the past weeks. Lack of accountability seems endemic to authorities in Western nations where countries like USA, UK, Germany, who once purported to be the good guys, have let down all pretence and are incautiously decimating systems that people …
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I’m a Revolution, Are you?
With thanks to Joy Oladukun and Maxo Kream and other contributors. [Verse 1]Why is it the darkest nights always make the stars so bright?Why’s it take a sacrifice to say someone deserves a life?Why is it the smallest voice has to make the loudest noise?How long you gonna make the choice to see the fire …
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More equitable alternative
(Extract from Sharon Ní Chonchúir‘s article We ditched our desk jobs to spend more time in nature — here’s why in the Irish Examiner 6 September. Tom Butler of Ballin Temple, Nurney, Co Carlow: ‘I’ve paid a financial price, but I’m a nature guy.’ Picture: Michael O’Rourke Tom Butler from Ballin Temple in Carlow describes …
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How To Not Take Things Personally
Breathe. Think. Flow. We teach this simple model for living well, and it has become our go-to framework for running our own businesses and lives. The 3-step process emerged over years of noticing what worked for us as we researched a huge range of body-mind-spirit and elevated consciousness models, sharing our perspectives through books and …
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Mother
Without mothers we are nothing. We come from our mothers and we know that. (Sometimes even our mothers don’t know who the father is.) For the gift of life we should be grateful to our mothers every day. We are drawn to our mothers, even though we might argue with them. We start our existence …
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Solutions for Climate Change
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Feast Upon The Earth Engages Everyone in Choosing Our Future
Summer Inspiration At DLR Lexicon, Dublin The inspirational timescape Feast Upon The Earth has moved from Tullow to Dun Laoghaire’s Lexicon Library for the rest of the summer. The launch talk in July was “very engaging,” said Susan Lynch, senior executive librarian at Lexicon, who welcomed the timescape. “I don’t usually see so much participation …
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Mary Robinson, Nature and Dandelions
“We are in a crisis!” Mary Robinson’s keynote message was the right way to open her Climate Conference – which she promptly re-named the “Climate and Nature Conference – don’t you agree?” The whole audience agreed enthusiastically. Tom turned to me. “Mary Robinson CAN!” he smiled. A fitting acronym for “climate and nature”! Shortly after, …
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Why should we change our minds?
We’ve been exploring human nature from the angles of anthropology, zoology and psychology and recently came upon Joseph Henrich’s WEIRD concept which is helping us to understand the relatively narrow perspective we all grow up with. WEIRD is an acronym for Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic, and delves into the religious convictions, beliefs, practices, technologies …
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Art as Activism at Tullow Community School
We were delighted and grateful for an invitation to meet with a class of 5th Year art students at Tullow Community School, and very impressed with the students’ engagement with the big ideas presented in Feast Upon The Earth. Our presence was part of a day celebrating the student’s exhibition of a project bringing new …
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