The goddess of small things

Various important reminders – mostly from groundhogmum this week that perspective matters and small does not mean unimportant.
Her day is often built of small things – and each one of those things matter.  Moving a hairbrush, forgetting to leave a door open, not putting something away, mis-matching socks,  may seem like a small thing to me, [...]

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Sometimes 1% is enough

Very brief post today as time is short.
I was inspired by an article “We Will Embrace the Reality of Progress” written by Kevin Kelly the editor of Wired.
In it he quotes Rabbi Zalman Schater-Shalomi ‘There is more good than evil in the world – but not by much”.
Kevin goes on to point out that by [...]

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Reflection is a conversation

I like the ideas explored in “The Reflective Practitioner” that reflection is like a conversation with the situation. Here are some thoughts and notes for the future:

What is the problem and how have I framed it?
Can I solve the problem I have set?
Do I like what I get when I solve this problem?
In solving this [...]

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Running shoes

I didn’t get round to empathy yesterday.  A lot of empathy feels intuitively right. The part I find tough is the listening. When I pause shut up and really listen life is far easier.
It is very easy for me to hear every conversation as either a request for action or a criticisim or both. My [...]

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Follow people not twits

I’m getting fed up with the same articles being rehashed about how to filter the noise out of your social networks
Perhaps I’m missing something. Everyone uses these networks in different ways. Personally  I don’t understand the appeal of building the biggest network possible as quickly as I can. People matter too much  to me for [...]

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Working on a flabby core

I have just finished reading Carl Rogers on becoming a person. For me the articles that struck home were his personal thoughts on teaching and learning.
The core conditions he picks out just feel right.  Simple enough to remember and the reasoning makes sense. They also feel like a physical core. If you take the words, [...]

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Re-starting

It has been a long time since I’ve written anything here.
Reviewing my old post its clear that starting this blog I had no  clear idea what I wanted to write or how to write it.  I still don’t. But at least now looking at it with a bit more perspective I have a better idea [...]

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Abundance in the midst of poverty

What a lot of great articles there were yesterday – I’ve had a fun time just reading through a fraction of the contributions for Blog Action Day.
Ian McKenzie (Ian’s Messy Desk) offered a nice straightforward list of practical suggestions Blog Action Day: How To Eliminate Poverty as did Ibrahim over at Zen College [...]

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Saving the world – one cone at a time

I wanted to write something deep and worthy today – but reading through all the facts and figures I was caught by one amazing statistic.
According to the poverty facts and stats over at global issues 11 billion US dollars or roughly 6.3 billion ponds a year is spent on ice cream in Europe.
A large percentage [...]

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Starting Blocks

First thing is to put my thoughts into some sort of order. For the past few months I’ve been using google reader to squirrel away articles that I though might be helpful. Looking through them there are several different things I want to change and so I can sort them into approximate piles:

Workspace – building [...]

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