I love flying. I have dreamed about it since I was old enough to point up at a bird, and was hooked when I realized that there were machines that flew too with people in them. The dream was a long time coming to fruition. In my first term at University (age 18) I met […]

Just a short post today. Travelling to support a friend with a custody issue. Life has emotional content. I think of it as our social operating system. We work with a veneer of language and fool ourselves that we are rational human beings that use our intellects to navigate life. The truth of the matter […]

It is 11:35am. I have a commitment to post this before 2pm today. No pressure. Caveat; taking the brakes off – I do not know where this is heading… I have been wrestling with a number of thoughts over the last week. Some of them pretty bleak, and out of this I am looking to […]

During my training as a Coach, I was introduced to the idea of the unreliability of emotions. What I walked away with was an understanding something along the lines of ‘…whilst our clients may show up with emotion, that is in the way of coaching them effectively – emotions are unreliable – circumstances change – […]

As you may have noticed by now, I am very interested in what we – Hom. Sap. – do next. This is a slightly big question; Hom. Sap. is not a coherent whole, divided along many lines of geography, culture, history. However I believe what unifies us (compassion and care for one another, beyond any […]