“Do I have a single identity – based on nationality, ethnicity, religion, class, gender or geography? Or am I essentially a mixture of multiple belongings, cultural allegiances and diverse inheritances, backgrounds and trajectories?”– Elif Shafak In her book How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division, Elif Shafak urges the reader to ask the […]
“We are all driven to belong. To be part of the tribe, but not everybody fits in the same way. We want a life rich with purpose and meaning. That too is in our DNA, but that meaning can’t be prescribed. It must be sought, and found, and sometimes wrestled with, and fought for.”– Aaron […]
“Memory lies at the heart of human experience. It guides our ability to conjure up long-gone, but specific episodes in our lives to make sense of the continuity of self, of the relation between mind and body, and our experience of time. Our memories determine our identity – they establish where we’ve been, who we […]
“We’re all aggregates, finding, recognizing, offering to others different strata of ourselves at different times in our live.” – Pamela Petro There is something interesting that happens when one stays in one place for a prolonged period of time, especially after one was used to a life more fluid and flexible. Like a pot plant, […]
“Our species, whose origin stories lie in lost Arcadias, has always sought to re-create paradise on Earth . . . many of us have forgotten that these Edens didn’t just happen: they are the product of millennia of care and toil. If we really value them, the responsibility to preserve them falls on us.” – […]
Where we live, where we want to live, where we grew up, where we went to school or fell in love for the first time – these places shape us. The places we come from, escape from, love, loathe, long for, go searching for, unexpectedly end up: they define our lives. Place matters, and not […]
“Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, a lot of patience.” – Robert Greene April has been a whirl of activity and colour. The landscape is lush and vibrant with the iridescent green of spring, interspersed with an array of colourful flowers and grass […]
“Every food has an inspiring birthplace and holds flavors directly connected to the places and people that make them.”– Simran Sethi Spring on the quinta is a tumultuous explosion of colour – white, yellow, and purple vie for attention, while the calls of the cuckoo bird punctuate a collective increase in the birdsong that fills […]
“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau Growing up on a farm where dryland farming was, and still is practiced, and where a limited water supply via boreholes was available for raising animals and domestic use, the preciousness of water has been ingrained in me. Taps […]
“Every human person is inevitably involved with two worlds: the world they carry within them and the world that is out there. All thinking, all writing, all action, all creation and all destruction is about that bridge between the two worlds. All thought is about putting a face on experience.” – John O’Donohue My writing […]
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