There is a great deal of discrepancy between the world as it really is and the world that we ought to have. New year is a time for remembering those aspirations both personally and collectively to help us shoot for the stars rather than sinking to our lowest and laziest common denominator of human behaviours! So……today I have a song and a poem around this. January is ruled over … [Read more...] about Wishing love: a song and poem for the new year
Songs for our time
A wish for a better world mixed with creativity and kindness is a powerful recipe for creating a song to see us through these corona times. It was these qualities that brought four musicians, and an artist in a group project through lockdown to create a song to raise funds for Médecins Sans Frontières, to help the world's most vulnerable people at this time. It is a time of … [Read more...] about Songs for our time
Lives on the line for less than £10 an hour
These Corona days we are stripped back to basics. It is Maslow’s triangle at its most basic: food, shelter, health and being with loved ones. Normally society likes to forget mundane things like bin emptying, caring for demented people with dignity, shopping. We like to feel “Important” – valuing things that are erudite, complicated, flashy and sophisticated, this is what we … [Read more...] about Lives on the line for less than £10 an hour
Love in the time of COVID19
Chaos. Confusion, Fear. Panic. Despair. These are perhaps the words that sum up the global mood right now. There has never been a collective event such as the Corona epidemic in most of our life times. To counter these words are a series of questions: how do we stay safe, how do we manage financially, how do we collectively care for each other? How will society as we know it … [Read more...] about Love in the time of COVID19
The tipping point
I think most people would agree that the biggest thing on our collective agenda is Climate Change. It is a matter of profound gravitas and complexity that requires all of our intelligence, wisdom and ability to find macro and micro solutions from changing government policies, business and industry practices to conscious and mindful actions as private individuals. Honorary … [Read more...] about The tipping point