Tag: newmusic

  • Self-Love and Ladybird Books

    Self-Love and Ladybird Books

    If you happen to be spending the 14th of February in South Korea, you might be inclined to give a man the gift of chocolate. And if you are Finnish, you won’t be doing Valentine’s Day but Ystävänpäivä – ‘friends day’! We grow-up with so many customs surrounding love and I started thinking about the…

  • Or…We Could Just Stay Here

    Or…We Could Just Stay Here

    How lucky we are to have such an infinite array of choices, even at the moment when we see our lives as unusually restricted. Far too many have lost loved ones this year, and though it’s at immeasurable cost, this surely deepens our experience of what it is to be alive. View post to subscribe…

  • Can we live in this new way?

    Can we live in this new way?

    We’ve never been so physically disconnected from the rest of the world, and politically from our European neighbours. On both counts I hope the separation is followed by a renewed passion and willingness to connect. If we trust the philosophy of Belgian psychologist Esther Perel: “Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need…

  • Save to the Soul Reserve

    Save to the Soul Reserve

    Somewhere along the meandering course of 2020, I became a little fixated by running water, streams, rivers and the general flow of things. View post to subscribe to site newsletter.