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This is what it means to live beyond the “end of nature”—that it is human action that will determine the climate of the future, not systems beyond our

You don’t need a vacation — you need 6 months of ambitious underemployment, of relaxed discipline, of productive exploration, of intentional meanderin

It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Some

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now.

i am in the process of curing a chronic inflammation in my ankle. I am developing a relationship to understand my ankle and my body further. A though

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us war

“You can’t force a plant to bloom. It has a cycle. You have to tend it and care for it and wait for the bloom to happen. If you don’t take care of it,

A new idea can be spread quickly if someone can explain it and communicate it to others before they have to discover it themselves. But the chief adva

In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, pre

For hooks and Freire, the classroom is a mirror of the world. So, when the world struggles with sexism, racism, and the many types of prejudice shapin

"men and women develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to s

Here are some rules of thumb that might help you navigate whatever practice you are trying out. Criticizing, judging, or assessing yourself isn’t vir

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do - we do it all the time. -- Alice Munro, Dear Li

The challenge is not to eliminate conflict but to transform it. It is to change the way we deal with our differences

Air can neither be created nor destroyed; the total amount of air in the universe remains constant, and if air were all that we needed to live, we wou

Instead of decolonising museums, the new practices echo and reinforce a racial discourse. They present an idea of culture as fixed and immutable – som

As Donald Knuth put it: “Ai has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and

There are four factors that contribute to a sense of community: membership, influence, integration/fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connecti

The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: being and longing, the Longing of our being and the Being of our longing. Bel

community members should “feel a sense of belonging (membership), feel like you make a difference to the group and that the group makes a difference t

"men and women develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to s

I do not owe my opponents my affection, warmth or regard. But I do owe myself a chance to live in this world without the burden of hate. “I shall perm

“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”

There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, co

This goal will be achieved if everyday practices, "ways of operating" or doing things, no longer appear as merely the obscure background of social act

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. — Claude M. Bristol

Philosopher Moses Maimonides said, “Hope is belief in the plausibility of the possible, not only the necessity of the probable” (Abramsky, 2011).

Tools like ChatGPT are great at creating. AI can generate options in high quantities at high speed. It is great at providing more choices. But it is n

Complexity can be tamed, but it requires considerable effort to do it well. Decreasing the number of buttons and displays is not the solution. The sol

The concept of wholeness is integral to a systems thinking approach. A system is more than the sum of its parts—it's defined by the interaction of its

Donella Meadows’ definition of systems: a set of **interrelated** elements **organized** to serve a particular function or to seek a particular goal.