Alinternet reflections

How can we better live in harmony with the natural world? A quartet of beautiful opinions

A tasting plate of epiphanies - from work and play, to rhythm and melodies to adhering to principles and spontaneously making meaning. Happy 2022 everybody, may the next year be as rich as your imagination. 

Emily Ratajkowski, in sharing her experiences of growing up as a model with all of its personal and professional complexies, invites us to examine concepts of ownership, sexuality, identity, security and power.

Is caring based in attachment or acceptance? In letting go or in resisting? In wanting to preserve or in accepting destruction? And how can we use this concept of our ethic of care in approaching saving the planet?

Can we ever be part of the great Earth metabolism? And by doing so would we fill the void first created by seeing ourselves as separate?

Planetary and mental resilience are linked – we need to heal ourselves to heal the world. Climate change has traumatised us and our industrialised ways of living speak of dissociations with our natural world. Healing ourselves mentally and emotionally is the best way to save the planet.