My heartfelt thanks goes to Canadian author Judy McFarlane for writing this inaugural guest post on belonging: Almost every day for the past three years I’ve ..
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on the existential nature of bridging distance I drive on roads flanked by huge up-ended trees, toppled like a line of sliced broccoli. Kathryn’s riverside ..
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on being an outsider, the ancient art of bell ringing, and the enduring relationship we have with our parents even after they die When people close to us die, ..
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A few months ago I met author Alain de Botton in Brisbane and asked him about belonging. Being a jet-lagged philosopher he wanted time to ponder this question ..
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Yesterday as I was driving my daughter to ballet, I put on some music by Francis Cabrel, which I hadn’t heard in a while. The French lyrics, the inflection, ..
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Poetry has long been used to search out and understand who we are and our place in the world. Concepts and emotions are whittled to their essence by the ..
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Here, in a few beautiful sentences, Australian writer Lisa Southgate unknots the messy shoelaces of belonging and home. Perhaps the feeling of home is as ..
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”The next idea, I guarantee, it can be yours. Just go and get it.’’ Elizabeth Gilbert talking to an audience in Brisbane, Australia. ..
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‘‘To the contrary, one of the things that impels me to write is that my mind is huge with all the little stories I never told you.’’ Lionel ..
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