Seeds for Thought: an Ecopsychology Blog

at the pub

They are sitting outside, drinking under the cherry blossoms in the beer garden. It is warm.

My granddaughter did not blame me for the floods or the social violence. She knew that it was just unfortunate that I did nothing to prevent them: I was just being clumsy and stupid – It could've happened to anyone.

There is no fight in me unless there is an enemy. There is no enemy outside of me, so there is no fight in me.

If I tell you about climate change,
.....you turn your head toward the sun, basking.

Vision for Humanity

Have any of you seen this latest craze (I wish!) on YouTube? A man named Malcolm Cohan has been inspiring people with the idea of articulating a vision they have for their lives and making a video from it to post on YouTube. He started by posting his own vision statement video, and then a video telling others how to do it, and now he's posted his Vision for Humanity:

spring

The guardian has an interesting article relating the rise of depression to the emergence of the individual self.

Certainly we feel better reconnecting back to the earth, and spring brings new life and warmth

Depression is really a question of scale

I can't take care of the world but I can take care of this stretch of river.

we / the earth are going to die
but not yet
(not that I can always aspire to this)

this morning was so misty each tree was dripping with moisture, looking up the clouds were visibly thinning, then the sun burned through,  it was beautiful. I went paddling yesterday, might almost have swum (but not quite yet :-)

Is it denial to feel joy? I don't think depression makes us function well.