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N.B. On this day we also mourn the privatisation of our water which has always been the gift of love from our Mother Nature to nurture, nourish and sustain the entire web of life.
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“Water is a great teacher that shows us how to move through the world with grace, ease, determination, and humility.”
If, only if, we could be wise and learn how to be like water and accordingly live our lives like water…
I am trying to imagine what the world would be like, if those who have abused, misused and privatised water and made it a tool of profit making, exploitation, plunder, pollution, and destruction, had studied wisdom traditions from the eastern cultures, traditions such as Taoism which counsels us to live our lives like water. This, as Parker J. Palmer* has noted, does not mean “go with the flow” passivity. Taoism is all about nonviolent action. It invites us to flow quietly but persistently around the obstacles that stand between us and the common good, wearing them down as a river erodes boulders.
Here are some words from the Taoist master Lao Tzu who names a few of the virtues that come from living “the watercourse way.” They won’t make you rich or famous. But they serve the common good, make life worth living, and help keep hope alive!
The best are like water…
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Economic Growth (The Index of Misery):
The Curse of 'Voodoo economics' and the 'mumbo-jumbo economic growth'
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Starmer wants the economy to grow, baby, grow. Woe betide the ‘blockers’ who get in his way
Rachel Reeves and her Pursuit of Mystical Economic Growth
Voodoo economics is bad enough, but this voodoo economic growth…
Rachel Reeves giving her speech on economic growrh. Photo: Peter Cziborra/via The Guardian
A short and concise history of a controversial idea
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First published in 2018
William Morris is a Prophet of our Time
A Reflection on William Morris’ Message of Hope and Urgency
At the time when there is a full-frontal assault on beauty,dignity, simplicity, arts and crafts, truth and justice, contentment and inner peace, when those with the lowest moral compass are chosen to be ‘leaders’, when plundering, exploitation, devaluation and denigration of Mother Nature and the destruction of our Mother Earth is celebrated and seemingly rewarded, all to satisfy the lust for money, I want to share a personal and rewarding story of healing with you, an inspiring journey of self-discovery, seeing life differently to what is promoted by the "Moneyed men" social media barons and their likes. We must never forget that, at a time when everything is becoming more digitalised, soul-less and meaningless, it’s fundamentally vital and significant to remember that arts and crafts matter, beauty and dignity matter, handmade things matter, sustainability matter, and campaigning, activism, championing beauty matter.
‘He towers greater and greater above the horizon beneath which his best advertised contemporaries have disappeared.’-George Bernard Shaw
‘a master of all exquisite design and of all spiritual vision’-Oscar Wilde
William Morris and His Legacy: The Virtues of Simplicity and Valuing Beauty
N.B. This journey of discovery is in two parts. Part I, begins on a beautiful, warm and sunny day in 2016 when I visited the William Morris Gallery in Walthemastow, London. Part II is when I revisited the Gallery on a beautiful winter day on 19 January 2025.
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