Creativity is Remembered, Not Learned
"Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status." -Sir Ken Robinson The world lost a remarkable leader in the pursuit of learning and creativity on August 21, 2020. Sir Ken Robinson's 2006
The pace of change is speeding towards us
The young adults living in my home, who are part of generation-Z, are accepting the pace of change brought on by the pandemic. Home schooling, buying goods and services online and adapting to new ways of socializing with friends has
Practices of the hippies are back
"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic." -Lily Tomlin When I came of age in the '80's, the natural - eco stuff was considered old fashioned. We wanted neon bright colours
Leafing Around The Islands
"Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer." -Unknown In September of 2019 we purchased a 3-year old Nissan Leaf with 11 bars of battery capacity. For just over a year before that, I had been using public transit to get to work
A new kind of world peace?
And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some
What to do, in times like these?
“With gentleness, overcome anger. With generosity, overcome meanness. With truth. overcome delusion.” —The Buddha, Verse 223, The Dhammapada I've spent the first 50 years of my life putting things in order. Getting through high school and post secondary education myself and
Minimum effort, maximum reward
When I was a teenager I hated cleaning leaf lettuce freshly picked from the garden. Somehow this task was assigned to me at the time of day when the garden plants were wilting in the heat. The greens I had
Circle of Life, Craft and Women
Circles of people are one of the oldest forms of human gatherings, dating back some 30,000 years. This was the venue to share valuable information, necessary to prosperity and survival of the group. Women would meet separately along the lunar
Creative, Positive & Purposeful Activism
I learned a new word this week - Craftivism. Maybe self explanatory but has been defined in many ways. As with anything that gets popular quickly, sometimes the original idea, the founding ideology as it were, can get lost. Therefore,