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Walls, walls everywhere …
(5 minute read) Ronnie Convery highlights the dangers of public policies which foment populism and favour division, even in the midst of a pandemic.
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Faith in the workplace: how to build inclusive environments
(8 minute read) Lisa Fraser argues that respecting the religious convictions of a workforce is a win-win situation for employers and employees alike.
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Editorial: Don’t just survive, thrive!
There was a time when survival writing was a rather niche market. If you looked really hard, or asked the bored assistant, bookshops tended to stock a light range of boy scout-esque manuals on what to carry as emergency rations, the joys of Kendal Mint Cake and how to light a fire with sticks. More recently (before the lockdown, of course), if you mentioned the term “survival writing”, you would have found yourself conducted to the shelves containing another genre … generally filed under “self help”, the survival in this case being of a different order: how to survive a divorce, how to survive a bereavement, how to survive redundancy…
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Covid-19: a chance to build bridges between generations
(7 minute read) Lisa Fraser explains how volunteering to buy groceries for an isolated elderly neighbour has changed the way she relates to older people.
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Whimsy in lockdown: how black bananas can end your isolation blues
(5 minute read) A query about wood chips took Priscila Moscoso Meiller out of confinement into meaningful contact with others.
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A guide for restless hearts: in conversation with a classic of world literature
(4 minute read) It’s time to explore your own mystery, says Luca La Monica, guided by one of history’s greatest thinkers.
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For the valleys I sing
(2 minute read) Leonard Franchi writes a hymn to the life of valley villages, from the Vale of Leven to the Valle del Comino.
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Telling life’s real stories
(8 minute read) The best stories are often those not written down, believes Joseph Evans.
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The assault of fears and the anchor of hope
(7 minute read) Margareth Sembiring presents a sobering analysis of what lies ahead, but reveals her own reasons for hope.
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When the storm clouds gather inside
(11 minute read) Zoë Dukoff-Gordon reads a book about weather where the storms are more personal than meteorological.
