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Finding the courage to live by our values

inezaponte — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:09:11 +0000

Increasingly, I am finding myself in conversations I could only have dreamt of when I first became aware of the link between the economy and the climate crisis,…

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Musings on a soufflé dish or Why Capitalism has no space for love

inezaponte — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:03:55 +0000

This Christmas holiday I plan to make a soufflé. Not just any old soufflé, but what is probably the best pudding I have ever eaten, which was made…

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Playing for our lives

inezaponte — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:08:39 +0000

One sunny afternoon a few years ago, my then 9-year-old son uttered those words every parent or carer will be familiar with: “Mum, I am bored.” I gave…

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To never be forgotten

inezaponte — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 21:57:43 +0000

“He could reconstruct all his dreams, all his fancies. Two or three times he had reconstructed an entire day. He told me: I have more memories in myself…

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Regarding the Land

inezaponte — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:43:52 +0000

“What I stand for is what I stand on.” ― Wendell Berry Several years ago I was invited to work on a ‘Soil and Story’ project for the…

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The long remembering

inezaponte — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:35:25 +0000

“We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors’ wisdom.” Maya Angelou Last week I was walking on Dartmoor when I stumbled upon…

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Sleep like a river

inezaponte — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:22:03 +0000

“How we need another soul to cling to.” – Sylvia Plath Since my nine year old son watched a particularly scary episode of Dr Who we have started…

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