Resilience and wisdom to stay happy in the years ahead
Can we trace an emerging future? Surely most of us have often been bewildered and disoriented in the past seven months. If someone had shown us a picture of life in Covid a year ago, we would never have believed it. Trying to make sense of the story so far, and where the plot line … Read more
If this is our future, we should be worried… You may not be surprised to know that there’s been an upsurge of dystopian fiction recently. It’s not usually a genre I go for, but I saw good reviews of Perfidious Albion, and it is indeed perceptive and witty – but also pretty depressing. This book depicts Britain in a … Read more
and some ways to explore answers Have you ever had the experience of wandering, lost in the mist, and emerging to find you’re at a vantage point where you can see at least broadly where you are, and where you want to go? That’s the place I’ve reached recently, and I’m sharing my perspectives in the hope that … Read more
The Latin tag comes from Pliny the Elder in the 1st century AD, and means There’s always something new from Africa. It was painted across the Bedford truck in which I travelled from Algiers to Nairobi (via the Sahara, Congo, Rwanda and more) in the 1970’s, which is where my love for Africa began. In … Read more