culture - Growing Good Lives https://growinggoodlives.com Mon, 16 Jan 2023 09:57:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.5 https://growinggoodlives.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-logo-image-only-small-4-32x32.png culture - Growing Good Lives https://growinggoodlives.com 32 32 Finding the courage to live by our values https://growinggoodlives.com/finding-the-courage-to-live-by-our-values/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finding-the-courage-to-live-by-our-values https://growinggoodlives.com/finding-the-courage-to-live-by-our-values/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:09:11 +0000 https://growinggoodlives.com/?p=14327

Increasingly,  I am finding myself in conversations I could only have dreamt of when I first became aware of the link between the economy and the climate crisis,…

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]]> https://growinggoodlives.com/finding-the-courage-to-live-by-our-values/feed/ 1 Musings on a soufflé dish or Why Capitalism has no space for love https://growinggoodlives.com/musings-on-a-souffle-dish/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=musings-on-a-souffle-dish https://growinggoodlives.com/musings-on-a-souffle-dish/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:03:55 +0000 https://growinggoodlives.com/?p=1890

This Christmas holiday I plan to make a soufflé. Not just any old soufflé, but what is probably the best pudding I have ever eaten, which was made…

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One sunny afternoon a few years ago, my then 9-year-old son uttered those words every parent or carer will be familiar with: “Mum, I am bored.” I gave…

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“He could reconstruct all his dreams, all his fancies. Two or three times he had reconstructed an entire day. He told me: I have more memories in myself…

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]]> https://growinggoodlives.com/to-never-be-forgotten/feed/ 6 Regarding the Land https://growinggoodlives.com/regarding-the-land/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=regarding-the-land https://growinggoodlives.com/regarding-the-land/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:43:52 +0000 https://somesmallholding.wordpress.com/?p=384

“What I stand for is what I stand on.” ― Wendell Berry Several years ago I was invited to work on a ‘Soil and Story’ project for the…

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 “We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors’ wisdom.” Maya Angelou Last week I was walking on Dartmoor when I stumbled upon…

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