While there is still time

'Thinking like a mountain' was one of the books recommended by Malvika Solanki during an amazing permaculture course I did with her ...

I started reading the 'No 1 Ladies Detective Agency' series many years ago, after I read a recommendation - and have been hooked on ...

  James Godfrey-Faussett: "100 years ago Ethiopia was blanketed by 45% forest and now that figure is down to just 5%. Part of the survi...

When I was a child, every monsoon season, I spent a lot of time rescuing small insects drowning in pools of rain water in the hilly green ar...

"Speaking as a Chinese, I do not think any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophist...

"..The greater the imaginative power of a man, the more perpetually he is dissatisfied. That is why an imaginative child is always a mo...

Anne Lamott wrote this in June 2018, but so relevant to the present! "The world can feel like an alcoholic father sitting in the living...

 Amazing facts shared by my farmer friend Madhu Reddy , from an article in Down to Earth :  "The Baiga are an ethnic group found in ce...

Am I walking a little ahead of you  so that no snake will bite your sandalled foot?  John Berger Page 44, 'And our Faces, My Heart, Brie...

Over And Over Tune   You could grow into it, that sense of living like a dog, loyal to being on your own in the fur of your skin, able to ex...

Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky.  Choose it at first consciously, ef...

I’m not saying we shouldn’t be angry. Anger seems reasonable. But perhaps we will do what I’ve heard the Inuit do— spend the emotion on walk...

 The Good The good are vulnerable As any bird in flight, They do not think of safety, Are blind to possible extinction And when most vulnera...

After the red Gulmohars of summer, the pink/purple/violet Bauhinias are here, announcing August. To Look at Any Thing To look...

Solar On a gray day, when the sun has been abducted, and it’s chill end-of-the-world weather, I must be the sun. I mu...