Tag: OnlyWords
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The Hidden Genius of Vivien Maier.
I think this is pretty amazing. Whilst digging into the topic of photography on YouTube I came across the story of Vivian Maier. In the mid 1950’s Vivian lived in Chicago’s North Shore area where she worked a nanny. She was a very private person who would spend her days off walking the local streets…
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A thousand bits of paper.
I’m here to encourage less scrolling through the endless shouting and pointing of social media and more browsing the blogs of people who take time to contemplate and create. Kate is a poet, writer and photographer who lives in Queensland, Australia. This is a post from her blog.
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Here is the world. Here are your tools.
With science, you can describe this vast world. With contemplation you can understand the science. With mysticism, you can experience the understanding. With deep ordinariness you can embody the experience.
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Where the frack is the snow?
Until our governments acknowledge that we are already in the deep-diarrhoea end of the climate change pool, and that this is an all of planet problem requiring brave, bold and politically unpalatable responses (no ifs, ands, or buts), we are destined for drowning. Instead, it seems we remain reliant on a cheap set of colourful…
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Scoping Near Death Experience
As you may know, I have an interest in the topic of near death experiences (NDEs). I believe there is now enough evidence in the scientific literature as well as enough quality first-person accounts to suggest some form of veridical experience occurs in the first few minutes of cardiac arrest (we cannot know further out…
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Being you, being them.
Here is an interesting thought experiment that is useful when trying to understand the point of view of someone very different to yourself…or someone who you just don’t get. And perhaps experience some empathy and appreciation for the difference even when it is seemingly vast.1. Read through each phase and then take a few moments…
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Earth at risk.
The abstract from this paper, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) sums up our current situation with clarity. Human development has ushered in an era of converging crises: climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and socioeconomic inequality. This review synthesizes the breadth of these interwoven emergencies and underscores the…
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Video: The shoe shop.
A beautiful little film documenting two peoples response to our changing world. Anna Björkman and Dougald Hine had been hosting online workshops for years, centering around the idea of regrowing a living culture. When they were looking for a physical place for their gatherings, they fell in love with an old shoe shop. Dougald Hine…
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If you want to know how things are going to be, look at how they are.
Mexico. May 2024. Mexico is struggling amid record-high temperatures and a severe drought. Water is being trucked into service hospitals and essential services. In protest of “intolerable” working conditions and lack of water in their barracks, the police themselves manned a protest blockade and blocked traffic. Meanwhile, in other species, a large number of Howler…
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