Look Around You
Isn’t it wonderful when you look around you and see beauty?
I found this story whilst trawling the web last night, the story is also covered here– what do you think? This story is about a group of women in India who have enough of being beaten and undefended. They have started to group together and stand up for themselves, using lathi – traditional sticks, if…
I have a number of siblings and when we were younger we were all great friends. We regularly holidayed together and visited with each other. If one of us was in trouble we all did our best to help out, sometimes travelling thousands of miles to do so. Over the past decade there have been many big changes in…
Note: not all of my images made it through the import process, some were lost in a photo sharing program I used to use. This spring there were really beautiful whitethorn (hawthorn) flowers to be seen across the countryside. Our own whitethorns were not as spectacular as last year and I have been told that often…
I am new to blogging and when I searched for blogs pertaining to renewable energy and sustainable living I found about one quarter of a million! So why add to this list? I really don’t have any particularly good reason. I guess it’s one way for me to communicate that doesn’t involve travel, perhaps I…
Hi All, sorry for disappearing but I had problems beyond my control. It seems that the server my blog was hosted on went belly up – they just disappeared overnight last week! I have no idea what happened but my freind who put up this site for me on a server he was using lost…
I recently had the opportunity to sit in a group and work through some unresolved tension between some of the group members. The method used for relieving the tension was so simple – good communication. Everyone spoke in turn, without interruption. People took their time, there was no rush, there was time to think about…