Learning to Love Where We Live (Page 2)

Acceptance is Growth

Oof. OOF. What a year. There’s so much swirling around in my brain and my heart and I’m not sure where to start. I always say that, don’t I (and hey look, I’m a poet and I don’t even know it). I’ve had many

The One Piece of Litter Challenge (And Why You Probably Won't Do It)

Your challenge this week? To pick up one piece of litter and put it in the bin. That’s it. Hey look, I told you that these challenges really wouldn’t be hard. Yet I bet lots of you reading this won’t do it. And I can’t even

Learning to be a Villager

I’m going to be real with you. It’s not been the easiest to love where I live recently. My life has been a bit of a whirlwind over the last two months. There’s stuff I want to share but don’t feel it’s fair to, so

The Slow Down Club

Born from a collective desire to find some relief from the pace of modern life, the first Slow Down Club is simply a space to reflect and to imagine together. A co-creation of what life might be like with a little more ease, a little more peace, a little less pace.

From Unravelling to Learning to Love

Hi folks, My name is Olivia Stamp and if you're receiving this email it's because you at one time or another signed up to my Substack 'Unravelling Together: Reimagining through Crisis'. The good news is that we did it. We unravelled and now all

Learning to Love Where We Live

This one has been a long time coming but now that I’m writing, it’s hard to know where to begin. See, I’m a millennial who got Instagram in the final year of university: that heady time where the structure of the obvious next step is taken away

Happy International Beaver Day

On the art of just getting started

What’s behind your house?

On rediscovering curiosity and wonder in our own back gardens.

We've got a Mountain to Move

Or, reflections on a 31st birthday

Something has changed within me, something is not the same

Or, why Wicked has a lot to teach us

From paralysis to purpose: this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

Or why we need to use the next 19 years very wisely.

On existing, taking time and building resilience

Or: on upgrading from cold showers to winter sea swims

audrey tang

Taiwan: Earthquakes, Resilience and People Power

A life-changing trip and conversation with Audrey Tang

empowerment

Introducing Uncommon Threads

It's unrelenting analogies and puns from here on out

violence

Growing an Economy of Death

private sector

What's in a job anyway?

Or, why I think that the idea of a "job" isn't fit for solving the problems we need to solve.

change

On hot showers and feeling a bit lost

Or: why I haven't written anything in ages

Newsletter

How to Change Your Own Mind

“External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “...the brain is a ‘prediction machine’, and … what we see, hear, and feel is nothing more than the brain’s ‘best guess’ of the causes of its sensory inputs.