Ursula le Guin

Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If we are going to work less, does that mean we will play more?

April 18th, 2016 Posted In: Place-based Learning Tags: 2016, Art, Buen vivir, creativity, Degrowth, Joanna Macy, Land Art, Lund University, Nature, Place-based Learning, Poetry, Politics, Pufendorf Institute, Solidarity, The Dispossessed, Ursula le Guin

Lund university, founded in 1666, and its research centre the Pufendorf Institute. That was where I met up with the Degrowth research group on 18th March 2016. I had been invited by the coordinators, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Alexander Paulsson to hold a workshop for the research group that would use different methods – visual art, drama, […]

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone;
it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A love letter

November 19th, 2015 Posted In: Other Tags: 2015, creativity, David Mitchell, Literature, Nature, Politics, Ursula le Guin, Women

A love letter from one great writer to another.

Now where did I put that file?

January 29th, 2015 Posted In: Comics Tags: 2015, Archive, Buen vivir, Degrowth, Internet, Literature, Politics, Research, Ursula le Guin

Goodbye Google archive stuff. Hello non-profit Internet Archive. Read more here. And more about Google as reported and collated by Ursula Le Guin here. And more great cartoons from xkcd here.

Ursula K. Le Guin. Freedom is the Name of our Beautiful Reward

December 1st, 2014 Posted In: Other Tags: 2014, Buen vivir, capitalism, David Mitchell, fan, freedom, Literature, Ursula le Guin, Zadie Smith

If you know me at all, you’ll probably know that I am a big Ursula K. Le Guin fan. And I am not the only one: David Mitchell and Zadie Smith cite her as a major influence; and there are many of us who are passionate about this excellent and prolific writer. All I can […]

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do.

If we are going to work less, does that mean we will play more?

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

A love letter

Now where did I put that file?

Ursula K. Le Guin. Freedom is the Name of our Beautiful Reward

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone;
it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.