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Getting growth right
(3 minute read) Nicole Law reflects on what can happen when you plant a seed.
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Child’s play
(4 minute read) In this poetic exploration, Joseph Evans is learning - and helps us to learn - what it means to be a child.
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Mountains
(5 minute read) Monica Sharp shares the poetry she wrote during some of the most difficult times since March 2020.
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Trapped by the floods in Germany
(4 minute read) José Santos, a Portuguese doctor, recounts his dramatic experience during the recent floods in Germany.
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Catching nature’s symphony
(6 minute read) Setting animal sounds to music is not just a lockdown hobby, says Alexander Liebermann. It can make us more aware of the marvels - and challenges - of the world around us.
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The hidden cost of going green
(7 minute read) Francesca Omon looks beyond the rhetoric and discovers why the green revolution may not be enough to save the planet.
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Time to make peace with nature … but how?
(7 minute read) Richard Bauckham ponders the great challenge to creation posed by our everyday destructiveness.
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On graves and greatness
(4 minute read) Walking through graveyards in Scotland and Italy becomes a surprisingly life-affirming experience for Leonard Franchi.
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A traveller in the village called Rome
(4 minute read) Leonardo Franchi contrasts the simple lanes of village life in rural Italy with the panting heart of the Eternal City, and finds they have much in common.
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Healthy minds and healthy bodies
(4 minute read) Ronnie Convery examines the practical steps we can take to keep our lives in balance, not neglecting mind or matter, as we enter a new version of “normal” after lockdown in many parts of the world.
