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A few good things: Spreading creative joy

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

This summer Jen Louden and Susannah Conway and I are lead a Creative Joy retreat. So we’ve been on a bit of an adventure, exploring what exactly we mean by Creative Joy – how it can be fed, and why it matters. We asked some of our friends to share their own reflections on creative joy, [...]

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The Joy of Service

Friday, April 20th, 2012

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. ~ Rabindranath Tagore This quote opens my book. It expresses what was possibly the single most beautiful and important thing I learned in Afghanistan. When I remember this, and live as though [...]

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A few good things (my weekly round-up of links from across the interwebs)

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

I started out calling these posts ‘A few good things’ And then I realised the links I’m drawn to, the things I want to share, are often a little bit intense (see today’s poem). They might not seem like ‘good things’ to everyone else. But I do believe they are good. They may not be [...]

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A few good things (a very short round up from around the interwebs)

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

I launched my book this week. Which left me very little time for curating interesting links from across the interwebs. So here is a very short (and utterly slanted) collection of good things: Kimberly Rothwell, at the Dominion Post, wrote about Zen Under Fire, how I got started in human rights work, the complexities of [...]

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A few good things (my weekly round up from across the interwebs)

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

My favorite link this week is from a journalist writing about the solace she finds in food while working far from home, in Afghanistan.  “As I stood in the morning light in my grimy Kabul kitchen, the hot coffee made me feel almost at home,” she writes, evoking my own memories of the very same [...]

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A few good things (my weekly round-up of good stuff from across the interwebs)

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Activism in a ‘Post-Occupy’ World There are some great ideas in this article on activism and social change in a “post-occupy” world. Including this gem (which I would love to see go viral, if anyone has any idea about how to make that happen): “…every time you find yourself grousing: “Why isn’t someone doing X, [...]

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A few good things (my weekly round-up)

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

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 [...]

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A few good things (including at least one VERY good thing)

Friday, January 20th, 2012

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 [...]

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Things you want to know about

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

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 [...]

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Double your joy!

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

I realise you have a life, and are not always glued to my Facebook or Twitter feeds (as fascinating as they are, right?). So you may have missed the news that I’m teaming up with two of my favorite people – writer Jennifer Louden and photographer and writer Susannah Conway – to lead the Creative [...]

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