Miscellaneous
Great ball of fire
Children love to play outside; so did Massoud Hassani growing up in Afghanistan. But the fields near his house in Kabul were filled with mines. There are millions of land mines in Afghanistan, and some of Hassani’s childhood friends did not survive their outdoor play. When Hassani began Read More...
A queen is born
For more than twenty years now, conservationist Linda Tucker from South-Africa has been fighting for the survival of the white lion, an animal that plays an important role in the myths and legends of Africa. There are only 500 white lions in the world, and most of them are held in captivity. Over Read More...
Dreaming together
Nine women are sitting in a room with their eyes closed. One starts to speak. “Last night I dreamed I went to the hairdresser. Every week this woman had a new idea for my hair. This time she said: ‘a pony tail.’ I thought,What does she mean? Is that even an option?You see, I had mid-length Read More...
What you can change
EXTRA: Don't miss our online event with John-Paul Flintoff on the 16th of May. Yours is a nice little book, just over 150 pages. Not bad for a guide to changing the world. “Ha! I knew it was a ridiculously grand title, and I’ve heard more people saying what you just said. I think it’s a Read More...
Life is not a contest
Last year, I made a New Year’s resolution that, in hindsight, was both vague and overly ambitious. The resolution was “Get better at everything.” The theory behind it was that I’d been slacking off a bit in my twenties, enjoying the social events, short work weeks and lazy Sunday Read More...
When monks rule
Once, long ago, rulers in India kept monks close to their courts. They knew the ascetics’ daily meditations had a calming effect on the populace. The kings took care of the monks so they could care for society. Even in medieval Europe, villages felt protected against robbers in the presence of a Read More...
The three keys to activating your life purpose
Millions of people right now are experiencing a yearning and desire to awaken to their unique gifts and offer them in service to the world—while living a life of joy and fulfillment. It's a surging of the human spirit, a virtual global awakening, at a scale no one has ever seen before. Simply Read More...
From coca to tourism
The Caribbean beaches of northern Colombia are a brilliant white and, aside from the occasional Kogi Indian, deserted. The perfect place for the tourist who isn’t scared off by the Colombian reputation for guns and guerrillas—or by coca farmers. In the mountainous jungle that borders the Read More...
The Goosefoot Revolution
In the sand sits a blue truck. Beside it, bulging sacks wait to be loaded. In a field near the village of Buena Vista in southwestern Bolivia, the quinoa harvest is in full swing. Men lay cut stalks on the ground so they can run over them with the truck. Then they separate the grains from the Read More...
How to restore love
Say someone asks you to dance—but he’s never done this particular dance before and neither have you. While you’re dancing, intense emotions surface in both of you for inexplicable reasons. The result is an overwhelming sense of isolation from your partner. This, says couples therapist Sue Read More...