- Written by: Kamran Mofid
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'On and On How Fragile We Are...'
‘Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises’
Words from Sting’s “Fragile” song. Photo: Song Meanings and Facts
Nota bene
Recently I read a very moving, powerful, and at times, fearful, distressing, but also hopeful article, written by a senior surgeon and academician in the US, speaking out about the rise in mental illness and suicides amongst physicians and surgeons in the US, by highlighting her own story and journey. More on this later.
For now, suffice to say, what I read resonated with me. I felt a sense of kinship and indigeneity with the story and the storyteller.
- Written by: Kamran Mofid
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A painting by Berrin Duma. Photo: turkishpaintings.com
Dear prime minister Rishi Sunak, can you hear the cries of Mother Nature? Can you bring down yourself to our level and feel our suffering, pain and anguish, triggered by climate change? Air pollution, floods, droughts, fires, toxic smokes…are killing us daily and destroying our communities. Why are you not responding? Why are you watering down your legal, moral and spiritual commitments to heal and nurture our common home, our common humanity, our Mother Earth and build a better world for everyone?
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First published on 15 May 2020, updated on 17 September 2023
A Passionate Call to Let Nature Be Our Teacher to Empower us to
Co-create a Better World and a Better Life for All
Education Reborn
Turning dream into vision
Inspired by Nature: My unfolding dream of the future
A Vision of What and How Education Could Be
‘Inhaling All the Forces of Nature’
A Time to Rethink What is Valuable, What We Teach, What We Learn, How We Live and What For
In these very troubled times, crisis after crisis, we need to think and think very deeply, what the answers might be and where the solutions may come from. To my mind, as ever before, the answers are in Education, Education and Education. But not the education that we have today, the neoliberal, market-based and values-less. We need an education for change, embedded in optimism, hope, collaboration, cooperation and above all, an education guided by the everlasting values of Mother Nature, beauty, wisdom, resilience, regeneration, sustainability and resurrection. Carpe Diem!
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