Emma
@emmaproud
Emma
We all, however, have contact with people. We can all find ways to resist the isolating, dehumanising tides of our time attempting to turn us into machines. We can all figure out a few small ways to be together more, in our bodies, to call a friend to ask for help, to offer a place to sleep or a cup of tea. These things seem soft, naive even but... See more
Elizabeth Oldfield • Make 2026 the Year of Neighbouring
The strength of our relationships with others is the number one predictor of health and happiness
Elizabeth Oldfield • Make 2026 the Year of Neighbouring
If you’re interested in the onrushing effects of the climate emergency , you can think of it as a purely scientific problem of parts per million of carbon, or you can notice that we no longer know how to share. What has driven out of control consumerism is a desire to avoid the entanglements of mutuality. Rooted, functioning, interdependent... See more
Elizabeth Oldfield • Make 2026 the Year of Neighbouring
As the impacts of climate change hit, our greatest safety is going to be each other, the local people we live alongside and who, if like most of us you live in a city, you may never have had a conversation with.
Elizabeth Oldfield • Make 2026 the Year of Neighbouring
“What intrigued us most was the possibility of a ‘social glue’ that does not depend on agreement over shared constructs or narratives … Instead, we observed ways of organizing that enable people to operate on the same wavelength without requiring consensus, allowing them to work productively through dissensus. In such spaces, the usual impulses to
... See more“It would be easy … to portray the current war over nationhood … as some David-vs-Goliath struggle between plucky little nations and dastardly globalists ... To me, it looks more like a situation in which nobody is clear quite what they want or how to get it. Proponents of corporate globalism want a borderless, frictionless world that offers
... See more“I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied, it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand. On the other hand, radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community.”
Ivan Illich in
... See more“Having tasted beauty at the heart of the world, we hunger for more.” These are words of the Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek in his book,
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Krista Tippett • Beauty as a Compass for Truth
Beauty has its purposes, which, all our lives and at every season, it is our opportunity, and our joy, to divine.