Belonging
Writer Out of Residence: Archives
I’ve been researching, investigating and writing about belonging for several years. This blog is a collection of some of my thoughts, interviews and experiences.
Enjoy. Ponder. Be Inspired.
How to make meaning in a mobile life
This started as a simple project in January 2014. A quiet search for a sense of belonging here in my fourth country, Australia. But like all...
Butterflies of Ideas
J’ai des amis à découvrir et beaucoup de choses à connaître Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Le Petit Prince Yesterday as I drove down the highway, I...
Alain de Botton: philosopher & writer
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...
Merlinda Bobis: poet, writer, performing artist
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...
Dinah Roma: poet & scholar
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...
Where it all began, or learning from refugee kids
''Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.'' Leonard...
Author Pico Iyer on the great floating tribe & home
Pico Iyer's TEDGlobal talk on the evolution of the meaning of home is a sonata to the idea of belonging and is particularly useful for those of us...
Lisa Southgate: writer & playwright
Here, in a few beautiful sentences, Australian writer Lisa Southgate unknots the messy shoelaces of belonging and home. Perhaps the feeling of home...
How belonging makes you smarter
After months of working on my belonging project here in my fourth country, I’ve realized that belonging is fundamental to finding meaning in life....
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