Peter Kravitz

“Life is only difficult for those who pick and choose. You just take it. And that helps you feel whole, and maybe flying with the birds helps you be with the deep levels of hell…Do not look away. Do not avert your gaze. Do not turn aside.”

(from this fine dialogue with the late, great Joanna Macy…)

George Eliot’s the real thing…

Sometimes mainstream, popular culture can express things that people have gone silent about. Series 3, episode 3 of the series ‘The Crown’ soberly used the conduit of the Queen to represent the Aberfan disaster. See also @thierryaaron.bsky.social below

m.youtube.com/watch?v=UPp0...

@adriennebuller.bsky.social (author of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism) in a particularly good dialogue with Ha-Joon Chang, especially after 10 minutes in, on social discounting of future generations and nature. Also worth peeking at @the-breakdown.bky.social

For once, the gamification of society might spur some social change. Where else could this be put to work in our use of depleting resources?

More shelfies please!

“The vacancy left by unsatisfying work isn’t filled by leisure, but by work in the garden, where you indulge in blunt and basic force.”

The Timeless Enigma of Gertrude Stein The pioneering novelist and poet, who championed avant-garde practices, continues to inspire contemporary artists and writers

I'll be in conversation with @francescawade.bsky.social tomorrow evening @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk to discuss her brilliant @faberbooks.bsky.social biography of one & only Gertrude Stein. I highly recommend the book, & also this piece in @friezemagazine.bsky.social by Francesca!

RIP 16 October 1944 - 17 May 2025

ICYMI, Donna Haraway said the years between 2000 and 2050 should be called The Great Dithering…welcome to its pinnacle 💅🏼

Caroline and Corentin have converted a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Paris into a remarkable home that is healthy, fair, sustainable, exciting and very,very surprising.

A little reminder that there is purpose beyond that which is sold and bought…

If you know anyone in Scotland who has a short documentary film they want to make in mental or physical health, this great opportunity has just been announced. (And there are some bursaries too):

nfts.co.uk/documentary-...

'Meadowsweet, loosestrife sway along the ditch
Waiting to cross over at the end of our days.'
Dear Michael Longley.

Photo of Brendan Kennelly and Michael Longley 1993 Santorini on

So sorry to hear of the passing of Michael Longley,a great poet & longtime friend & colleague to my beloved uncle, Brendan Kennelly. In 1993 they spent some time on the Greek island of Santorini, with Michael’s wife Edna. This wonderful photo was taken on that visit. RIP Michael

Any researchers/writers/academics fancy a creative start to 2025? I shared this last year @ BACP research conference. Experiential workshop using thinking from my decades of writing work combined with academic possibility.
All writers and will-be writers welcome. Booking: bit.ly/4a9QCSY

And here in the Scottish Borders on 1st January 2025

Bapsi Sidhwa lived minutes away from me in Pakistan (before she moved)…I grew up reading ‘The Ice Candy Man’ and ‘The Crow Eaters’ and later, ‘Water’, ‘An American Brat’ and ‘City of Sin and Splendour.’ Pakistan has lost a literary giant. May she forever rest in peace.

Links Satire. Rechts Realität.

For a mathematician, this is like a clue in a murder mystery!

Alliance for action on climate change and health (ATACH) WHO-led programme for action on climate and health to create climate resilient and low carbon sustainable health systems.

The Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health - the ATACH - now counts 93 countries and over 70 development partners among its members. If you haven't already done so - run, don't walk, over to

www.who.int/initiatives/...

for more information and to join up.

Londoners! & other locals. Next month the Amar Gallery is opening the first British solo exhibition of Hélène de Beauvoir (sister of the frequent subject of my posts here). Its title and theme—The Woman Destroyed—is drawn from a joint project of 1967, written by Simone, illustrated by Hélène.

Could you add me to Inclusive Public Involvement. Looks like home for the ethics I try to put into practice every day. Currently writing something about this from the point of view of being a psychotherapist.

Presented without comment (not my workplace)

This was a great Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth session--fewer people than usual for this spot, but some good conversations. What follows in this thread are some of the things we talked about.

“It was as though we were being trained to have low standards and small dreams for the future; to prop up the economy as labourers or die of indifference”

A cracker of an essay from photographer Johny Pitts on the Tate’s new exhibition: The 80s - Photographing Britain

Could you add me too?

IT IS HEROIC TO TRY TO STOP TIME

Neal Ascherson!!!

I might be on this but if not could you add me?