Psychology of aid It seems Alessandra Pigni and I are of one mind. In this short feature on Channel Four she talks about why ‘changing the world starts from within’, and acknowledges that as an aid worker, ’I come here with my wounds as well, and my issues and my problems’ Story-telling and aid I love [...]
When I wrote ‘your passion is not enough’ I knew I was beginning to say something, not finishing. I was opening a conversation with myself and with you. Today I was walking home from a visit with a friend, listening to Zen Howl, by Natalie Goldberg. Natalie said, “Talent is like a water table under [...]
1. I made a book! (Wait, did I already tell you about this?) The first (VERY) good thing this week is that my book is available for sneaky-sneaky pre-launch preview. It won’t actually be official launched until the end of February. But if you are in the know (which you obviously are, since you are [...]
This week I had dinner with friends. She’s the casting director for The Hobbit movie. He’s the man who created Gandalf’s nose and King Kong’s hair and who invented the process by which the Navi in Avatar had such extraordinarily life-like faces. These two are, as you might imagine, passionate about their work. So you [...]
I think I may take a leaf out of my friend Susannah’s book and generally post my round of links on Friday so you can click through them at your leisure over the weekend. But this week I wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out on a few time-sensitive things, so I’m sharing this [...]
