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Courage in Writing: Daring to put out truths for posterity
Extract adapted from my book Silence Eloquence, available on Amazon. I just started reading Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer. It makes me wonder why I choose to read the books that I read. I might read for many reasons,…
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River & I – How to Find a Metaphor for your Life
Metaphors help us overcome the limitations of language. Across the millennia, humans have looked to nature to understand ourselves, and nature answered us with a plentitude of metaphors to choose from. My favorite metaphor for life is that of a…
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Sandbox – A Place of Experimentation
My blog is named Sandbox. Sandbox (software development): Testing environment that isolates untested code changes and outright experimentation from the production environment. Sandbox (software development): Testing environment that isolates untested code changes and outright experimentation from the production environment. Sandbox…
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Tiger Work: Literature meets Sustainability in this new eclectic collection by Ben Okri
The written word has long been a powerful medium for radical and transformative change. When you have someone skilled, talented and powerful like booker-prize winning author Ben Okri taking his pen up against climate change, then there is hope in…
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Sea of Tranquility: A wondrous journey through space and time
A book that takes us from 1912 to 2401, across earth, moon and the far corners of the universe, to realize what haunts there and then is no different from the here and now. A delightful read!
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Power of stripping identities, one step at a time.
Moon joins Venus today in the skies. Sumerian epics connected this to one of the seven gates in Inanna's descent - the seventh and final gate where she finally reaches the subliminal state of nothing, only from which anything can…
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Book Titles, Alliterations and the power of short phrases
To create or to discover - two pleasing acts. Is one more worthy than the other?
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Work to the depths, work in the shallows
Current wisdom tends to favor deep, focused work rather than shallow work. But it is a delicate balance, and one that needs to be approached with humility and gratitude for those who help us along the way.
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The Great Resignation in fact the Great Transition – 10 facts you need to know
We are witnessing one of the biggest mass movements in history in terms of vocation. The Great Resignation is in fact the Great Transition. A trend that will have far-reaching implications.
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Change is everywhere – 3 recent books to understand change better
Change can be daunting. But if well understood, it can help us transition closer to our ideal life, and internally, to transform ourselves towards a better self. Three recent books explore change from different perspectives.
