There are days when you wish for the world to magic away , to be able to sit in a corner and hide away from all the things to do swirling about you. Last night I ended up watching a technology programme hosted by Stephen Hawkings and he commented on how technology was supposed to give us more time. Instead with more technology the pace of life has sped up so we are constantly filling up our time with more and more things to do. We are...
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I feel I should comment that now I have read the fuller text of what Pope Francis said he is promoting a rather more active view of overcoming indifference than being reflective. And I will think about that (whoops – unintentional irony there) i guess the tricky thing for most of us who work, and are still pulling double shift with family is that there are a lot of people telling us what we should be doing as well but no-one...
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There is an option to choose the negative choice. There was a thread of that at Webstock on Friday. To focus on the darkness, the insidiousness of evil, and our powerlessness in the face of it. I almost tweeted during Cory Doctorow‘s talk that this is why we we need more women in tech, so the narrative of destruction can be balanced by a narrative of creation. I am not naive, and I recognise the potential for harm – but my...
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So after my reflection on the train – the first speaker at Webstock, Elle Luna focused on finding the pathway that finds a balance between our “shoulds” and what we “must”do to meet our personal calling. While she recognised the potential tension between a job, a career and a calling the line that somehow took my breath away and keeps repeating itself in my head is: “Where do you go to find a dream...
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This morning in the train I was thinking about Lent, and about some Facebook friends talking about “giving something up”. I find it interesting that the idea of giving something up or making a change at this time of year seems so attractive to some people, even those without the context of a Catholic tradition. Pope Francis tweeted earlier this week “during Lent let us find ways to overcome our indifference”....
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