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The More Things Change …

June 27, 2010 Featured
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For various reasons this  last week, I have found myself in a deeply reflective space.
I’ve walked again in an earlier me, revisiting events and experiences from 10-25 years ago.
I’ve unearthed diaries, letters and other mementos and spent time reading them. It is fascinating to have such a clear record of what I was thinking and [...]

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Dreaming of World Peace

September 16, 2009 Featured
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World peace .. does that sometimes seem an impossible dream?
Maybe.
We’re all human. We get cranky and annoyed. People irritate us – their actions hurt or anger us. And certain events in our lives lead to feelings of devasting pain, grief or anger.
We’ve all seen the effects of these things, either in our own lives [...]

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Holding the Centre

September 13, 2009 Reflections
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I’ve just finished reading Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.
Subtitled A Memior of Revolution and Hope, it is an inspiring read!
As I read, I was struck by the way in which Shirin Ebadi ‘holds the centre’ – that sometimes painful space where we stand in the centre of contradictions [...]

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One Voice in the Crowd

August 3, 2009 Reflections

So often we think we can’t do much to make the world a better place. We look at the enormity of the task and think “What on earth can I do about it? Who am I, after all? Just one voice in the crowd!”

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A Passionate Plea

June 8, 2009 Reflections
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… It’s a prison or a juvenile justice centre, right? Wrong! It’s a large, modern high school.

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