In an earlier post on rest and restlessness, I said that we are likely to be able to help each other in the area of getting rest if we start with a better approach to work. I then went on to say that we often see work as a necessary evil and that prevents us… Continue reading How do we talk about work?
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Restlessness
There is, in my experience, a happy and healthy form of exhaustion and a deeply unhappy and unhealthy one too. That healthy form of exhaustion comes at the end of serious hard work, or exhaustion. It is that feeling when you know that you have put the time and effort in, that you have achieved… Continue reading Restlessness
The fear of being forgotten (our obsession with statues)
The debate about tearing down statues that has dominated our news headlines this week has been a proxy for a deeper debate about what we value. Behind it has been questions about who we remember and who we forget and what that says about the things we value. So, one of the key arguments for… Continue reading The fear of being forgotten (our obsession with statues)