freedom - Growing Good Lives

Playing for our lives

inezaponte — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:08:39 +0000

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…

Regarding the Land

inezaponte — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:43:52 +0000

“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…

From Dismal Science to Language of Beauty

inezaponte — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:47:47 +0000

Towards a New Story of Economics Humans are storytelling beings. In fact one could argue that it is impossible to make sense of the world without story. Storytelling…

Bridging the divide

inezaponte — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:14:45 +0000

“We can’t change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently. My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try…

Drawing circles

inezaponte — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:08:52 +0000

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are things in this world I would like to draw a circle around. Things, or more accurately experiences, that I value so much that I want a special place for them, somewhere safe where they cannot be touched by what we so quaintly refer to as ‘the market’. Experiences such as beauty, love and freedom.