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‘Christmas gives us the opportunity to be the best we can be.’
Combining Passion and Compassion with Purpose and Action
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Christmas is a story of hope
When Hope Lights Up The Darkness
Christmas is all about Camaraderie and Community, Family and Friends
A Time to Weave a New and Hopeful Tapestry of Life
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Teachers as Poets: The Architects of the Transformational Change
Reclaim Your Heart and Discover Your Soul
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‘We become teachers for the reasons of the heart.
But many of us lose heart as time goes by.
How can we take heart, alone and together,
So we can give heart to our students and our world,
Which is what good teachers do?'-THE HEART OF A TEACHER
‘Humanity is at the core of what a poem is. It is meaning, empathy, revelation, inversion, dissidence, passion, and surprise: poetry is what happens in the space between logic and chaos.’- Joelle Taylor, poet, playwright and author
Whilst the forces of fakery, arrogance, loneliness, violence, indifference, rejection, physical and mental disabilities, injustice, and inhumanity are real and cannot be denied, so are the powers of human authenticity, generosity, kindness, empathy, humility, dignity, understanding, courage, and community that are rising up to meet them, challenging them, providing better paths to this journey we call life.
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Poet for the Common Good Who Spoke Truth to Power
N.B. Not long ago, I posted a Blog, In Search of Meaning and Purpose: The Poets' Guide to Economics, shedding light on how to humanise economics and the economists in order to build a better world.
Today, I have tasked myself to shed light on political poetry, on ‘The Poets’ Guide to Politics’, if you will, to explore the political power of poetry and its capacity to inspire social change. To achieve this goal, I have allowed myself to be inspired and guided by the political poetry and poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who remains ‘one of the most celebrated and influential figures of the Romantic era in English literature. He is recognised for his passionate, lyrical poetry, often infused with intense emotion and radical political ideals. Shelley's work explores themes of love, beauty, nature, and the pursuit of freedom and justice’, all amongst the missing values in this chaotic world of our creation.
Shelley: An Icon of Liberation
Shelley, the poet of moral and political corruption, speaking prophetically to our age
Poet As Prophet: Shelley, People’s Poet
- In Search of Meaning and Purpose: The Poets' Guide to Economics
- Neoliberal Economics: A house of ill repute, Built on a shifting sand.
- These are what I have learned from 45 years of teaching economics
- Make Economics ‘Kind’ and Build a Better World
- Make Economics 'People's Economics' and Build a Better World