A Decade of Excess, and the Scars are still Visible

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom… You never what is enough until you know what is more than enough.”  - William Blake. This might be a strange note on which to begin the new year, but not if one looks at the signs all around us. Listening to some world leaders, you might… Continue reading A Decade of Excess, and the Scars are still Visible

Green shoots, really?

Right now, looking out of the window of our first floor flat, I see what I am told is a fig tree. It has shed all its leaves and is busy sprouting tiny, new, green ones. Strange for this time of the year in Goa, where we have just bid goodbye to the South West… Continue reading Green shoots, really?

Are we ready for a Goodtopia?

“…Imagine all the people, living life in peace You may say I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday you’ll join usAnd the world will live as one…”-John Lennon More than four decades after John Lennon wrote his lyrical dream of a world in the future, we are closer to achieving his dream.… Continue reading Are we ready for a Goodtopia?