by tfindlay | Jul 22, 2020
I recently participated in a webinar entitled “What is the Earth Asking of Us?” arranged by earthliteracies.org. Although the participants came from varied backgrounds and experiences there was a general consensus that Earth needs us to learn to live in harmony with...
by tfindlay | Jul 10, 2020
Shakespeare wrote, “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” and he was right. The names we give to things are often quite arbitrary. For example a pencil could be called a “grapher” as long as everyone understood that “grapher” is a word we...
by tfindlay | Jun 23, 2020
As discussed in the A Brief History of the Western Mindset section of The Hopeful Mindset, the dominant mindset of western civilization has been and still is The Cynical Mindset. As this mindset has evolved over the past 2500 years, human beings have come to see...
by tfindlay | Apr 17, 2020
Dr Trevor Hancock of the University of Victoria proposes that, rather than bouncing back from COVID-19 we should bounce forward. What he means is that bouncing back would mean returning the practices that have got us into the global problems we now face such as...
by tfindlay | Mar 24, 2020
“It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with...
by tfindlay | Mar 21, 2020
If ever there was an unmistakable demonstration of the interdependent nature of our world it is the coronavirus pandemic. Barring the rapid development of a vaccine the virus will run its global course. With worldwide cooperation we may be able to “flatten the curve”....
